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(-2025.06.12 – China-)

චීන කොමියුනිස්ට් පක්ෂයේ ආරාධනයක් මත මේ දිනවල චීනයේ සංචාරයක නිතර ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණේ ප්‍රධාන ලේකම් ටිල්වින් සිල්වා සහෝදරයා ඇතුලු පිරිස ජජියාන් පළාත් ප්‍රධාන පක්ෂ පාසලේ දේශන දෙකකට සම්බන්ධ වී තිබේ.

ජජියාන් පක්ෂ පාසලේ නියෝජ්‍ය විදුහල්පති ලියූ චිංමින් සහෝදරයා විසින් ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණේ ප්‍රධාන ලේකම් ටිල්වින් සහෝදරයා ඇතුළු පිරිස පිළිගත් අතර ඔහු විසින් පක්ෂ පාසල පිළිබඳව පැහැදිලි කරන ලදී.

ජජියාන් පක්ෂ පාසලේ අධ්‍යක්ෂ මෙන්ම දේශපාලන විද්‍යා අධ්‍යන අංශයේ විද්‍යාත්මක සමාජවාදය පිළිබඳ මහාචාර්ය ගූ ජින්ෂී (Gu Jinxi) සහෝදරයා විසින් ජජියාන් පළාතේ අත්දැකීම් සහ ක්‍රියාමාර්ග ඇසුරින් රාජ්‍ය ක්‍රියාකාරිත්යේ පරිවර්තනය සිදු කළ ආකාරය පිළිබඳ පැය දෙකක දේශනයක් පවත්වන ලදී.

පක්ෂ පාසලේ ආර්ථික විද්‍යා අධ්‍යන අංශයේ සහායක මහාචාර්ය යූ ෂුන්හොං (Yu Shunhong) සහෝදරයා විසින් මෙම පළාතේ ආර්ථිකය ඉහළ මට්ටමින් විවෘත කිරිම පිළබඳ දේශනය පවත්වන ලදී.

මහජන ජීනය මේ දක්වා පැමිණි ගමණේදි මුහුණ දුන් අභියෝග සහ එම අභියෝග ජය ගැනීමට ගනු ලැබූ ක්‍රියාමාර්ග පිළිබඳව මෙහිදී දීර්ඝ ලෙස සාකච්ඡා කළ අතර ජජියාන් පළාත තවමත් දියුණු වෙමින් පවතින රටක පළාතක් ලෙස දියුණු ආර්ථික වර්ධනයක් අත්පත් කරගෙන ඇති ආකාරයත් ඒ් සඳහා පැමිණි ගමනේදී මුහුණදීමට සිදු වූ අභියෝගයන් පිළිබඳවත් එම අභියෝග ජයගත් ආකාරය පිළිබඳවත් මෙහිදී පුළුල් ලෙස අවධාරණය කරන ලදී.

මෙම පක්ෂ පාසල 1949දී නිල වශයෙන් ආරම්භ කර ඇති අතර වත්මන් නවීකරණය කරන ලද පක්ෂ පාසල ගොඩනගා ඇතිතේ 2014 වසරේදීය. මේ වනවිට පක්ෂ සාමාජිකයන් ලක්ෂ හතරක් පමණ පිටව ගොස් ඇති බවත් ආචාර්ය උපාධිය දක්වා විෂයන් 07ක් උගන්වන බවත් මෙහිදී අනාවරනය විය. පක්ෂ පාසලේ මූලික අරමුණ පක්ෂ සාමාජිකයන්ගේ දැනුම වර්ධනය කිරීම බවත් පක්ෂයේ දේශපාලන මූලිකාංග ඉගැන්වීම සිදු කරන බවත් ඒහිදී සදහන් විය. එමෙන්ම චීන කොමියුනිස්ට් පක්ෂයේ ඉතිහාසය පිළිබඳ අධ්‍යයන කටයුතු සිදු කරන බවත් ඒහිදී අනාවරණය විය. ජජියාන් පළාතේ පක්ෂ සංවර්ධනය වෙනුවෙන් මෙම පාසල විශාල කාර්ය භාර්යයක් සිදු කරන බවත් මීට පෙර මෙම පක්ෂ පාසල වෙනත් ස්ථාන 4කදී පැවති බවත් එහිදි අනාවරණය කරසිටියේය.

(-2025.06.10 – China-)

A meeting between Tilvin Silva, General Secretary of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, and Liu Jie, Governor of Zhejiang Province, China, was held yesterday (09) at the Main People’s Assembly Hall of that province.

This was while Tilvin Silva, General Secretary of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, and a group of people are currently on a visit to that country at the invitation of the Communist Party of China.

During the meeting, the long-standing friendship between Sri Lanka and China and between the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna and the Communist Party of China was discussed in particular.

The future contribution that China and Zhejiang Province can make to strengthen the economy of Sri Lanka was also discussed.

Tilvin Silva, General Secretary of the JVP, emphasized that the National People’s Power Government, which has ended the corrupt regime in Sri Lanka and has been established under the leadership of the JVP, is moving forward with a plan to rapidly develop the country’s economy. The General Secretary mentioned that during that journey, he hopes to receive the support of China as well as the Zhejiang province, which is the same as the achievements made by the Chinese Communist Party during its journey to present-day China.

Deputy Minister of Youth Affairs Eranga Gunasekara, Deputy Minister Munir Mulaffar, Jaffna District Parliamentarian A.M. Jegadeswaran, Matale District Parliamentarian Deepthi Wasalage, Gampaha District Parliamentarian Dharmapriya Wijesinghe and a group were present, while Deputy Governor of Zhejiang Province Lu Shen, Director General of the South Asia Region of the International Department of the Communist Party of China Pan Xiu Bin and a group of representatives of the Communist Party of China in Zhejiang Province were also present.

(-2025.06.06 – Colombo-)

The launch of the Cluster Health Information System (CHIS) began at the Thambuttegama Base Hospital. This marks a big step forward in digitizing our country’s healthcare system.

CHIS is introduced under the Primary Healthcare Digitalization Project. This is a major change in how primary healthcare is delivered in Sri Lanka. The official launch took place yesterday (05) at the Thambuttegama Base Hospital.

This system helps us manage resources better. It supports a more organized and complete care service. It also allows us to make quicker decisions based on real data.

CHIS connects hospitals and clinics around a main hospital that offers specialist care. Doctors and nurses in the network can access patient records, X-rays, lab results, prescriptions, and medical history in one place. This helps provide faster and more accurate treatment.

The system was developed with support from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) under the Health System Enhancement Project (HSEP). ADB has also funded and supported the technical side of this new health information system.

Hospitals in Galnewa, Eppawala, Thalawa, Rajanganaya Yaya 5 and Yaya 7, Negampaha, Katiyawa, and the Medical Officers of Health offices in Galnewa, Thalawa, and Rajanganaya are now linked with the Thambuttegama Base Hospital through this system.

Our Ministry plans to expand this system to connect all government hospitals across the country in the coming phases. After launching the system, we also toured the Thambuttegama Base Hospital.

The event was joined by Deputy Director General (Medical Services) Dr. Arjuna Thilakaratne, Director (Health Information) Dr. Palitha Karunapema, Director (Primary Health) Dr. Sarathchandra Kumarawansa, Director of North Central Provincial Health Services Dr. Nelum Samaruthilaka, Director of Anuradhapura Regional Health Services Dr. Chandana Kedangamuwa, Head of Health Sector for Sri Lanka and Maldives, ADB, Dr. Kumari Navaratne, Senior Social Development Officer Herath Banda Jayasundara, Director of the Primary Health Services Digitalization Project Dr. Anil Dissanayake, other health staff, and members representing local councils.

(-2024.05.01 – Colombo-)

Today is a day of glory for all working people around the world. With heartfelt respect, I join you in celebrating May 1st, International Workers’ Day. On behalf of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (IDCPC), I extend to you our sincere greetings, best regards and highest tributes.

Brothers and sisters, please take a moment to look at your hands. You will find the fragrance of tea leaves on the hands of our sisters in the tea factories, the stains of hard labour on the hands of our workers and the dust of chalk on the hands of our teachers. In China, the hands of workers and farmers carry the scent of rice.

Although China and Sri Lanka are distinct nations, the people of both countries share a common purpose. They nourish our families, strengthen our political parties, advance our nation, and shape our futures.

Sixty years ago, you played a crucial role in establishing the JVP, and throughout the years, your relentless efforts have fortified the organization, ultimately leading to the formation of the National Peoples’ Power. Eventually last September you won the Presidential election, a new milestone in the history of Sri Lanka.

At this moment your hands are building a new Sri Lanka. Over the past eight months under the leadership of President Disanayake and the support of all JVP and NPP members, your hands are bringing great change to this nation. In politics, you are creating a new culture of integrity, service, accountability and transparency. You have formed the smallest Cabinet in the history. The economic, industry and tourism sectors are reviving. The Clean Sri Lanka initiative and the Digital Sri Lanka plans are advancing. In society, prices are falling, jobs are increasing and lives are improving. People of all ethnic groups, faiths and religions live in harmony.

As a comrade, we rejoice in your achievements. We wish you even greater success. ‘Subha Pathum’

Comrades, this year marks the 76th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. For 76 years the CPC has empowered the Chinese people to accomplish remarkable feats through our diligent efforts. China, the world’s second-largest economy, is steadily enhancing its strength and improving living standards each day. In particular, since the 18th CPC National Congress in 2012 with the strong leadership of General Secretary Xi Jinping with the Unity of the Chinese people we have lifted nearly 100 million rural residents out of poverty, a miracle in human history.

China will keep its economic growth strategy and will remain a leading contributor to global growth and anchor of stability in this turbulent world. Right now under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, 1.4 billion Chinese people are marching forward in our own path to modernisation. We are confident that, with the efforts of the Chinese people, we will create a more promising future.

Comrades, Chinese achievements were made possible with support from Sri Lanka and all our neighbouring countries. We will never forget our brothers and sisters who stood with us through sunshine and storm. Sri Lanka is China’s good neighbour, trusted brother and reliable partner. For 68 years of our diplomatic ties, we have worked hand in hand, shoulder to shoulder showing the world how countries of different sizes can strive together. With the JVP leading in Sri Lanka, fresh initiatives are emerging to support your nation’s development. This creates new avenues for strengthening China-Sri Lanka relations.

Early this year President Disanayake had paid a successful state visit to China, and President Xi Jinping met with him. Together the two Presidents charted a shared vision for the future of our relations and our nations. On the new journey ahead, China will always stand together with Sri Lanka. Hand in hand we will respect and support each other and uphold mutually beneficial cooperation. Shoulder by shoulder we will build China Sri Lanka community with a shared future. Let’s join hands to bring more benefits to our countries and our people. Party-to-party relations are the backbone of the friendship. For decades the Communist Party of China and the JVP have worked side by side. My visit is to implement the important consensus reached by President Xi Jinping and President Disanayake. Through the exchange of CPC and the JVP, the two governing parties of China and Sri Lanka will make China-Sri Lanka relations even stronger. As comrades, we will stick to the principles of mutual respect, mutual support, mutually beneficial cooperation and mutual learning seeking common ground while reserving differences making our friendship deeper and blood relations stronger.

Comrades, please look around your sisters and brothers beside you. They are doctors, teachers, workers, drivers, farmers, and waiters. They have different jobs but everyone is smiling and everyone’s faces are shining with hope. These smiles represent the support for the JVP and NPP, represent the trust in President Disanayake and a good face in a brighter future. Over the three days of my visit here one thing has impressed me and my colleagues most, the smiles of Sri Lankan people. From taxi drivers to Hotel staff, from village farmers to market vendors, all smiled and gave thumbs up for the JVP and NPP and for your nation’s future. One taxi driver smiled and told me, ‘I have got a happy family, three kids, steady work and life is good I support the JVP, NPP and our President.’ I believe his voice is the people’s voice. We also met JVP leaders. They smiled as they recalled the stories of their friendship with the Communist Party of China, where they joined hands with the Communist Party of China to write a new chapter. We are all confident in the brighter future of the friendship between the CPC and JVP, NPP and between China and Sri Lanka.

In conclusion, I wish you a joyful International Workers’ Day. I Wish Sri Lanka a brighter future under the leadership of President Disanayake.

Long live China-Sri Lanka relations, long love CPC, JVP, and NPP friendship.

Thank you very much

(-2024.05.01 – Colombo-)

My dear Comrades

On the occasion of this May Day on behalf of the working class of India and the CPIM I extend revolutionary greetings to the working class and toiling masses of Sri Lanka and the masses world over. Comrades we remember with a pride and reverences the sacrifices of innumerable martyrs including the Haymarket heroes who fought violently for better world. I feel privilege to address this historic May Day Rally conducted by JVP, on behalf of the Communist Party of India Marxist, I extend warm revolutionary greetings and salute the leadership of JVP and NPP who triumph both the Presidential election and the Parliamentary Elections.

We remember in last May Day your leadership said that it was the last May Day under that dominant that ruling classes and the next May Day will be under the ruling of the NPP and you have proven that within six months. Comrades, the developments in Sri Lanka are in inspiration to the working class movement and the left world over and especially in the South-Asian countries.

We are celebrating this International Labour Day today when the neo liberal capitalism is ruling under the unforeseen crisis. It was unable to come out of this systematic crisis of capitalism even in the Citadel in the United States of America. Capitalism has failed to address the problems of the humanity and comrades our assessment made on the basis of the philosophy of sovereignty with Socialism and Marxism have been vindicated under the newly re-elected US President Donald Trump. The US imperialism is now taking annexationist and many aggressive measures leading causing miseries to the people world over including the trade world. It is continuing to it support to Israel and its occupation to Gaza and West Bank in Palestine. Attacks are continuing Yemen and Lebanon. The US through Israel intends to establish its regime over the entire West Asian region.

Comrades, on the occasion of this May Day we stand in solidarity with the people of Gaza and Palestine and reiterate our commitment to the establishment of Palestine state with a Pre- 1967 Borders and the Jerusalem must the Capital. We denounce the imperialist intervention and the aggressions and stand for world peace. Working class and common people benefit from the peace while the corporates that control the military industrial complex benefit from war. We stand in solidarity with socialist Cuba and the Cuban people who are continuing to resist the more than six decades old economic blockage with the trump, they are facing renewed aggression and it is our duty as a part of the working class internationalism to stand with Cuba.

Comrades, we express our solidarity with all the socialist countries and these people and we express solidarity with all the people fighting imperialism and for their rights. As you are aware, India it is at present govern by one of the most new liberal pro imperialist communal BJP. It is carrying out attacks on the rights of the working class pensioners and the poor and the sections of the society. Democratic rights are curtailed. The federal character of our country is at such a state. The Indian government is on an undeclared Economic blockade against the left front government in Kerala which under the leadership of the CPIM is trying to implement pro people alternative within the limitations of the capitalist system in India.

Moreover, the ruling party and its parent organisations their history and etc. spreading communal venom targeting the minorities and the left. That is the reason why we characterised it and showing the neo-partial characteristics. Under its aggressive implementations of neo-liberal policies the attack is more targeting on the working class. The employment relations both in the organised and unorganised sectors are being continuously restructured to promote extreme fragility and precarious overall employment profile. The government has brought four labour courts in place of the labour laws doing away with all the rights of the working class including the eight hour working day, minimum wages and social security and most importantly the freedom of association and collective bargaining and the trade union rights. These are the rights earned through decades of sacrifices and struggles of peoples and the government is imposing the virtual survey on the working class. But we must say that in spite of these although the least labour courts are passed five years back the working class of our country was able to stall these implementations till now but that government now announced its intention to implement these laws ignoring the descent expressed by the majority of the trade union and the working class of the country. For this reason working class of India under the leadership of joint trade union platform led by the left trade unions including the centre of Indian Trade union has fall for a nationwide general strike on 20^th of May this year.

This strike call is supported by the platform of farmer’s organisations and also receiving a good response from the general public. We are in the midst of the preparations of this general strike and is to make it the biggest ever strike in India and we promise you it will be the beginning of a new face of the working class led counter offensive against this corporate communal nexus. The communal farmers struggle in India. Which lasted more than a year forced the government to withdraw the anti- farmer’s government laws a landmark in the history of the anti-imperial struggle of our country. This struggle has not only inspired the toiling class and the people of our country but it has created an atmosphere, it reviewed the belief in the class unity and the workers present unity with the support of the Trade Unions and then it will be further carried forward by the this platform through this strike . Comrades, at this juncture we should assure you the working people, the working class of Sri Lanka that we will also be following your path in the fight against this imperialist led neoliberal policies and I must say that the left government in Kerala, because of this economic blockage by the government of India we were asked that the Kerala will go the Sri Lankan way when there was a crisis in Sri Lanka. Now we proudly tell to the people that, yes, Kerala will follow the Sri Lankan way not only Kerala, the entire India will be following the Sri Lankan way. Comrades, we are confident that the new government, under JVP and NPP will be living up to the people’s expectations and aspirations and I wish you the all the best and all the success in the Local Government elections as well. We should not be complacent , capitalism in crisis will go to any extent to crush any challenge against it and it is with extreme vigil against these class enemies and compromising to the working class ideology and the working class on the street defending their rights we can move ahead with this path full of challenges. On this occasion of this historic May Day, when you are writing history on this occasion upholding the internationalism we greet the workers and toiling people of Sri Lanka once again and all cadres and leaders of the JVP who made this rally a magnificent huge success in your struggle against the exploitation and oppression and the Indian working class with you always there with you Comrades. Long live May Day. Long live socialism, down with imperialism.

Thank you.

(-2024.05.01 – Colombo-)

My dear Comrades, a red salute to you all.

You all came here to celebrate the great May Day, the day of the working class all over the world. Remember those days when the workers of the world were oppressed and suppressed under the rule of the capitalists? They possessed no rights, endured unlimited working hours and were treated even worse than slaves during that period. It happened in Chicago. We can never forget that day when the workers united, struggled and shouted for eight hours of labour. That is our right. As human beings, we have that right.

But on that day, the capitalists very cruelly suppressed our comrades. How can we forget it? There were trials in the courts of the capitalists in Chicago, America. They were ready to die for the cause of workers. They told the court of the capitalists that a day would come when our silence would become more powerful than your thundering rules. That day has come in Sri Lanka. Our silences have become more powerful. Now, on May Day in Sri Lanka, we have come to celebrate the victory.

It was told here at the last May Day by Anura, our dear leader and the President. He, like a prophet, told us that next year, when we celebrate May Day, it would be a victorious May Day for the people and the workers of Sri Lanka. That day has come.

We remember Marx and Engels, who wrote The Communist Manifesto and in the last part, they declared: “Workers of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains. You have a world to win.” That world will come. For that, we struggled, in country after country, continent after continent; we struggled for that dream, the dream of this victory. One after another, these victories have come true.

We remember those days when the fall of a set of unions happened. They were telling the imperialists, the capitalists, and all those forces were telling that the end of history had come. Workers had no future; the red flag had no future. They said this flag would disappear from the minds of the people because red had disappeared from the world. With that idea in mind, they thundered: “The end of history.” But what happened? History can never end like that. History has to continue, for the victory of the workers. Now, it has happened here.

They shouted in those days: “There is no alternative only one way,” and that way was the American way, the way of the capitalists. They told us there was no other alternative, and that we were wrong, comrades. But we were right, because we have proven that there is an alternative, there is a way out. And Sri Lanka, of late, has shown that way. That way is a promise of an alternative. And this government of the people of Sri Lanka, the JVP government, that government has shown a way for the people of Sri Lanka and for the working people all over the world.

You have shown that if we are united and ready to fight, we will win — and we can never be defeated. That is the importance of May Day in Sri Lanka.

That is why, comrades of India, we feel so proud and happy that we could witness this moment, the participation of comrades, women and men, with red flags in their hearts and hands, coming to celebrate the victory of the people’s struggles. We can celebrate this in the future also.

One more thing to be told here: they will not stay idle. As I was told here, the reaction of the opposition in Sri Lanka are saying that their day will come. They are saying that red must fail in Sri Lanka too. We tell them, this flag will not fail because this is the flag of the workers. This red flag is the flag of the working people and this colour red is the colour of the blood and sweat of those people. That flag, that colour, can never be defeated.

With this conclusion, we are here. They will try their best. Some will try their best. Some of them are threatening the whole world with tariff challenges and tariff burdens. They are saying they will control the world. How can they control the world when people all over the world, the working masses, the toiling people, when all of them have a dream for the future and are ready for a united struggle? It is sure that, whatever they may say, they will fail and we will win.

So, this victory of Sri Lanka, we can tell you, is not only a Sri Lankan story. This is the story of our comrades, the story of the present-day world, the story of the dreams of present-day men and women. And this is the story of the future and that future will come to this world.

Comrades, once again I salute you. I salute you.

Long live May Day!

Long live, long live!

Workers of the world, unite. Red salute!