Death agony of the Lanka Sama Samaja

Party

MAY DAY is tradiestablishment of a Republic but cunningly combines it with tionally celebrated a demand to amend Section 29 the world over as a day of the Ceylon Constitution Order in Council so that it of international work- would incorporate constituing-class solidarity. tional guarantees to Buddhism'.

Not so in Ceylon. Here the reformist "leaders' of the theocratic state. working class, for the first time in 30 years, transformed May Day into its opposite: into a pogrom against Tamil workers in Colombo.

This disgusting incident, in which a number of Tamil workers were hurt and one killed, is the continuațion of a vicious anti-Indian, antiTamil agitation condoned, if Agreement of 1964... not led, by leading rehegade Trotskyists - until recently supporters of the Sri Lanka ous issues the reformistFreedom Party-Lanka Sama racialists hope to drive a Samaja Party coalition govern- wedge between the United National Party and the Federal ment.

Having failed to win the Party, which is wholly Tamil election on reformist policies in composition. these renegade scoundrels been joined by some of the from Trotskyism have thrown aside their reformist-socialist masks and revealed their true racialist features.

The orgy of Indian baiting unleashed by them has only one purpose-to win back a section of their lost votes.

CONDEMNED Many left-wing parties and trade unions have condemned this racialist campaign categorically, all except the Lanka Sama Samaia Party.

In the middle of April the situation became critical. The pro-Chinese Communist Party pointed out, in a statement, that a policy of alienating minorities would strengthen Perera: leader of divergent wing the United National PartyFederal Party coalition govern- most reactiunary capitalist ment and provide it with a politicians - one of whom convenient pretext to institute Mr. R. G. Senanayake-spoke Emergency Rule. on the same platform as Dr.

Dudley Senanayake turned Perera on May Day and was the hate campaign to his warmly applauded for his advantage by posing as the evocation of the 'Sinhalesedefender of minority rights, Buddhist nation'. while at the same time assuring the Buddhist masses that he the Lanka Sama Samaja Party was the only bulwark against is once more split between communism. tWo divergent wings:

Thus the cynicism of the one of them led by N.

opposition is more than M. Perera and Colvin R. de matched by the duplicity Silva, gravitating towards the of the government! Sri Lanka Freedom Party of That Dr. Perera and P. Mrs. Bandaranaike and the Keuneman (leader of the pro- other section led by Moscow Communist Party) Leslie Goonewardene heading are out to exploit the for the pro-Moscow Communracialism and religious bigotry ist Party. in Ceylon, is clearly borne out by the amendments proposed a rout. The disappearance of to the Throne Speech of the the Lanka Sama Samaja Party government by the opposition. is now only a matter of One of these calls for the weeks. Ceylon: racialism a diversion from the eradication of appalling poverty as seen in this picture. They were "talking nonsense,' said Dean Rusk.

The 'New Frontier' and the the 'Scientific Revolution' of the Kennedy era, they thought, would keep the students spellbound.

But the movement remained American people during the missiles crisis over Cuba; there is no precedent in U.S. history.

Fed up with witch-hunts, angered by lynchings and outraged by imperialist adventures abroad, a new generation of