In June 1964, amid a massive crisis pregnant with revolutionary possibilities, the Pabloite LSSP entered into Madame Bandaranaike’s Sri Lanka Freedom Party government. This was the first time that a party claiming to be Trotskyist and historically associated with the Fourth International had entered into a bourgeois government.
The official Independence Day proceedings were a graphic exposure of the repressive nature of the Wickremesinghe regime that lives in fear of a mass upsurge by workers and the poor against its austerity policies.
One day, soon after the trade union of Wellawatta Spinning and Weaving Mills, which broke the back of A. E. Goonesinghe’s trade union, was formed, Colvin was travelling in a bus. At the time his face was not well-known and he was merely a name. He found himself sandwiched between two rough looking men. “Ah […]
Sung in a Tamil dialect mainly spoken by Sri Lankan plantation workers and in South India, “Enjoy Enjaami” is powerfully resonating with global audiences.