In 2022, the peoples of Sri Lanka rose up in a popular uprising against the exploitation, rent economy, theft, unemployment, corruption, nepotism, and dictatorship in their country.
They dethroned the then President Gotabaya Rajapaska, who made his own fortune by abusing the labor of the poor and workers, robbed the country, built palaces for himself and his family circle, with a glorious popular revolution, and became an inspiration to the peoples of the world who were subjected to similar tyrannical governments. Just as the people of Sri Lanka rose up against this one-man, one-family regime back then, they took to the streets this year in the same spirit of the serhildan. They achieved a democratic victory by punishing the regime that wanted to continue the same dictatorial system based on exploitation and corruption in the name of neo-liberal economics at the ballot box. Undoubtedly, this revolutionary democratic attitude of the Sri Lankan peoples has struck fear into the hearts of all dictators who want to maintain one-man regimes and condemn the people to poverty. Again, the attitude of the peoples of Sri Lanka is inspiring the oppressed and exploited peoples of the world.
This democratic victory of the Sri Lankan people in the elections undoubtedly stemmed from their deep anger against corruption and the plundering rent economy and the revolutionary attitude they displayed, but it also proved how decisive and fateful the alliance strategy and democratic cooperation pursued by the democratic forces there on the way to the elections were.
It is of great importance to continue the democratic alliance that ensures the continuity of the current achievement and to make it permanent from the perspective of a democratic nation. The systems of democratic nation and democratic autonomy offer the most democratic and libertarian solution formula for the long-standing economic, political, and social problems in Sri Lanka, the homeland of many peoples and religious-ethnic groups, especially the Sinhala, Tamil, and Moor peoples, and the religions of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam, which have been deliberately deepened and abused by the forces of capitalist modernity.
In Sri Lanka, which has been experiencing great crises and problems due to the practices of the capitalist system of exploitation, it is of historical significance that the National People’s Power (NPP) coalition led by a leftist and socialist leader named Anura Kumara Dissanayake (AKD) won the elections with a broad alliance of various political groups, youth, women’s movements, and labor unions. We congratulate the Sri Lankan people on this success, and especially Mr. AKD and all parts of the NPP for leading this success, and we wish them continued success. As the Kurdistan Freedom Movement, we consider the achievements of the Sri Lankan peoples in their struggle for freedom and democracy important, and we would like to express our support for their struggle on the basis of women’s freedom, democracy, and ecology.