The ‘protest march’ of the Socialist Youth Union’ was subjected to attacks of tear gas and high pressure water canon by the police a little while ago.

Five protest marchers have been injured due to the baton charge carried out by the police say reports.

The ‘protest march’ was organized to protest against the budget presented by the government for 2012 say organizers. The protesters had said they would march from Technical Junction at Maradana to the Ministry of Finance.

The tear gas and the water cannon attacks were carried out at the Lake House roundabout in Colombo Fort. Read more…

No relief has been given from President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s seventh budget to unemployed youth or graduates and employees who have lost their employment says the National Organizer of Socialist Youth Union (SYU) former Parliamentarian comrade Bimal Ratnayake.

Addressing a media conference held at the JVP head office at Pelawatta today (27^th)  comrade Ratnayake said, “As usual the young generation of the country has been forgotten in the budget that has been presented. In the budget Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa has allocated only a few centimeters in one column of his budget for youth and the burning issues of the youth.  That too has been entered to the Read more…

National Organizer of the Socialist Youth Union Comrade Bimal Rathnayaka addressed the assembly of World Federation of Democratic Youth yesterday(13). At his speech he made new resolutions to certain circumstances such as condemning the killing of Roshen Shanaka, Solidarity motion to protect the life of Rizana who is under the capital punishment of Saudi Arabia, motion demanding immediate reveal of the names of Tamil prisoners ,  all political prisoners and speeding up the resettlement and reconcilation programme and motion demanding immediate abolition of Acquisition and Cross Servicing Agreement with USA.

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…