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Sri Lanka

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1947 General Strike, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

An account by T. B. Dissanayake of the 1947 general strike in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka
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Diyatalawa camp, Ceylon

POW camps in Ceylon during the Boer war

Over 5,000 Boers were interned in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) during the Boer War. The Ceylon camps were the second set of overseas POW camps after those…
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Sri Lankan police open fire on protesting workers

Around 60,000 fishermen from across Sri Lanka have refused to take their boats out in protest against rising fuel prices. Police have opened fire…
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Ceylon, 1971

Ceylon: the JVP uprising of April 1971 - Solidarity

Excellent pamphlet by Solidarity London about the uprising launched by the socialist youth organisation the JVP in Sri Lanka in April 1971.
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Rohana Wijeweera - leader of the JVP

Third worldism or socialism - Solidarity

Originally published by Solidarity in their pamphlet "Ceylon: the JVP Uprising".

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