Sri Lanka is a small country in South Asian region situated just south to India with a population of 20 million.

It was a British colony for

150 years and is being governed by local capitalist regimes for last 60 years. The free education system was introduced 65 years ago. The n

eo-liberal capitalism introduced to Sri Lanka in 1977 with powerful Executive Presidential post. IMF,World Bank and WTO commenced their direct influence since then. In parallel, a separatist war started in North part of the country and lasted for 30 years. Read more…

The new national organizer of the Socialist Students Union, Comrade Nalinda Jayathissa said that the different governments who came in to power from J.R. Jayawardana, who introduced the open economy, to the present tried to privatize the university education eight times at a media conference held on last 31st October. He indicated that a number of problems have been arose in both university education sector and school education sector .

He further said “By now the university students have to face number of different problems including education, welfare and protection. Read more…

A protesting campaign, organized by the JVP  was held in front of the Colombo fort railway station yesterday (24). Protesting campaign was held to remonstrate proffering the 2012 budget without complying the promises given to people by the last budget and to force the government to increase the salaries according to the living cost.

Socialist Youth Union, Socialist Students Union, Socialist Workers Union, Socialist Farmers Union and Socialist Women’s Union  participated in the protesting campaign. Read more…

CHE DAY, which is continuously organized by the Socialist Youth Union was held on last 15th October at 3.00pm at Jayawardana Centre, Colombo. It consisted of a lecture and a cultural show.

National Organizer of the Socialist Youth Union, Comrade Bimal Rathnayake delivered the welcome speech. Cuban ambassador, Ms. Nursia Castro Guevara participated as the chief guest for this occasion. Main lecture was delivered by the General Secretary of Peoples Liberation Front, Comrade Tilvin Silva. Read more…

62nd Anniversary of the national day of Peoples’ Republic of China was commemorated at BMICH yesterday (28th September). It had been organized by the Sri Lanka – China Friendship Foundation . The political consular of China embassy comrade Hun Ta Wo, representing the Communist Party of China (CPC) and comrade Somawansa Amarasinghe , the leader of the Peoples’ Liberation Front (JVP) participated in that event.

Welcome speech was delivered by comrade Vijitha Herath , the chairman of the Sri Lanka – China Friendship Foundation. Comrade Read more…

SYU organizing  numerous events to commemorate the brotherhood day and distributed books among the students of the northern province on last 2^nd August. As a remedy for not been printing the ordinary level and advanced level question papers in Tamil medium, SYU distributed the books containing those past papers. Also the past papers for grade 5 Scholarship examination were distributed among the students. Books were distributed among  the   Read more…

A protesting campaign organized by the media organizations against the attack on Mr. Gnanasundaram kuganadan, the news editor of the Udayan news paper, Jaffna was held at Lipton round about yesterday (2). They forced the government to remove the emergency low, to establish the freedom for media and to made an investigation about Read more…

The programme “Lets’ fly together” organized by the Socialist Youth Union to commemorate the brotherhood day last on 23^rd July, was held yesterday(2) at Dharmapuram, Kilinochchi. The cricket match which had been organized for this program was disturbed by the army. This cricket match was held with the participation of the youth represented the northern  province and the other provinces of Sri Lanka. The army who arrived to this place had removed the banner Read more…

The programme  “Lets’ fly together” organized by the Socialist Youth Union to commemorate the brotherhood day last on 23^rd July, was held for 2 days with the participation of Sinhala, Tamil and Muslim youth representing the northern, eastern and the other provinces of Sri Lanka. It consisted of sports and cultural programmes and program to share the experiences had been last day. The seminar, which was the last event of the program was held with the Read more…

There was a protesting campaign in front of the head office of the electricity board asking for the arrears salaries of 10 months on last 29^th Friday.

It had been organized bye the united Trade Union Alliance of the Lanka Electricity board, comrade Ranjan Jayalal said that they decided to organize this protesting campaign as the government did not pay them the arrears salaries of 10 months which they won due to the salary increments in 2009. He future said that if the Read more…