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Sections of the ICFI have sent condolence messages on the death of Wije Dias, chairman of the Socialist Equality Party in Sri Lanka. Comrade Wije died on July 27 of a heart attack just one month from his 81st birthday.

The funeral of Socialist Equality Party chairman Wije Dias received an international audience and brought revolutionary salutes to his unwavering commitment to Trotskyist principles of socialist internationalism.

North, the chairman of the Socialist Equality Party (US), delivered this tribute online at the funeral of veteran Sri Lankan Trotskyist Wije Dias held in Colombo on Saturday, July 30.

It is with profound sorrow that the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) announces the death of Comrade Wije Dias, the longtime general secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka) and its forerunner, the Revolutionary Communist League.