Witch hunt against the | Socialist Action 1983

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Without of the state seen a big only turn much dressed We can only hope that Lanka tonight? tomor- tion very few by and reached THE GOVERNMENT is now trying to implicate the left as having conspired to overthrow it in the process of a three-stage revolution.

The violence has been blamed on the left and the Communist Party, the People's Liberation Front (JVP) and the New Socialist Party (NSSP) have been proscribed and their presses sealLeft activists are being rounded up We believe the government is trying to break up left parties and launch a mopone to canoast or an erast elemenas doing this the government cannot hope to maintain its stablitv and continue to rule. Particularly in the lace or ine cnaotic situation of the economic, social and political structure If oppositional groups were left to freely operate in such a climate the rela tionship of forces may well have shifted against the government.

SOCIALIST ACTION urges its readers to protest at the attacks on the Tamil people in Sri Lanka.

We ask you to get your organisations to call for the restoration of democratic rights in Sri Lanka and for the lifting of the ban on those parsupporting Tamil self determination also the parties of the left.

All protests should be ad. to the President, Janadhipathi Mandiraya, Col.

ombo 1, Sri Lanka.

If your organisation wants a speaker on the situation in Sri please contact Sri Lanka Research and InformaGroup, Grays Inn Buildings, London EC1.

A state visit to Britain by President J.R. Jayawardene is planned for October. Get your organisation to insist that this visit is cancelled. Also get it to demand that Britain does not sell any military equipment to the Sri Lanka government.

Socialist Action 18 August 1983

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Socialist Action 18 August 1983