Ceylon swings left

THE CONSERVATIVE pro-American United National Party (UNP) government of Dudley Senanayake took a merciless hammering from the Freedom Party (SLFP), Samasamaja Party (LSSP) and Communist Party coalition in Wednesday's general election in Ceylon. Ten senior UNP minis- I Address ters lost their seats and Mrs Bandaranaike's bourgeois-radical SLFP romped hame with an majority not only ove: ne rival UNP and Tamil inces said Federation Party, but over / CLAPHAM COMMON her reformist allies in the coalition as well. power in 1965 after a series Czech The UNP returned to of coalitions — first led by the late S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike and then by his widow - failed, after ten years of rule, to solve any order alles of the basic problems of the country, but succeeded in splitting it on racial and linguistic lines. 1960 after the assassination slander Mrs Bandaranaike, origiforces of law and order. nally became Premier His Party's manifesto claims that there is a danger of her husband by a fanafrom 'hooligan anarchists' and "it is essential • • • to strengthen the police'.

In reply to a question on Cheap support Ars Bandaranaik‹ was ble to save her totterin aid for SLFP regime from the anger Peru regime parties THE military regime in Peru which has imprisoned under Trotskyists of thenegade harsh conditions a large number of its political opponents, including the peasant leader Hugo Blanco, has strengthened its friendly relations with Stalinism.

Hungarian Finance Minister Valyi, visiting Lima. on an st in th official trip earlier this week, signed an agreement for technical co-operation. The UNP, being the Hungary will build agricultural processing plants and classes, has buy Peruvian minerals.

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Mass opposition to the UNP reached boiling point in 1970 when the government signed the notorious Mahaveli River Diversion Project which virtually put the country in hock to the World Bank and US imperialism.

Despite the policies of their reformist leaders, who keep the mass movement tied to the bourgeois radicals, the Ceylonese workers and peasants instinctively grasped the significance of the connection between UNP foreign and home policy and the barbarous war of US imperialism against Indo-China and voted against the UNP on May 27.

But since the betrayal of the reformists in 1964 the SLFP • radicals have monopolized the rural constituencies without competition from the left.

Thus the rural masses, abandoned by the left, voted confusedly for the SLFP.

The UNP defeat is only an electoral prelude to a massive escalation of the class struggle which will rip open the coalition, expose the anti-working class bourgeois radicals of the SLFP and discredit the CP, LSSP and pro-Peking CP reformists, as well as the revisionists led by Tampoe and Samarakkody.

In this sense May 27 signifies the opening of a new era for Trotskyism in Ceylon. legislation against the unions Liberal Chief Whip Mr Eric Lubbock said that the Tory proposals were 'not practical'.

But he left the door open by adding that the Tories would be asked to develop their proposals, not yet fully spelt out he claimed, during the next three weeks.

Liberal policy towards the unions comes down full square behind the Labour government's productivity drive.

Tying wages to productivity is suggested as the way to reduce strikes which, the Liberal manifesto claims, "paralyse whole sectors of industry'.

The Liberal spokesman claimed to speak for 'the individual worker, the independent trader, the small businessmen' and so on against the power of big business and the power of 'big labour unions' alike.

This general election, dominated by the economic crisis and the polarization of class forces, leaves absolutely no room for such conceptions and finds the Liberals in the Tories' pocket. laws of the country, has never been dropped either!

Keane needs

introduction to the infamies of Irish law He too was falsely charged with armed robbery in the past and of attempting to burn Fianna rall quarters.

In letter to a friend in Britain Keane says:

rree state pollci are intert on istine me back • into jurisdiction they nink they have a trump cal by f murder any other under the present fairly confi- Could DROP CASE!

Frank Keane must not become of the repressive machinery of Irish capitalism - and British im pentos his extradiction demanding that the governdrop all procéeding: against Keane and that politi cal sylum b all epublica socia i hated nonents regime.

Flood the Irish (Mount Street, London, with reso ltions demandin the release of politica Prisones Release Frank Keane now!