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By L.L. (Colombo)
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Monday, 28 August 2000 |
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In 1994, together with the other "Left" parties, including the "Communist
Party", the leadership of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP, the traditional workers'
party which was originally a Trotskyist party) entered the popular alliance (PA)
government headed by Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga (CBK) and have been carrying out
an anti-working class policy of privatisation and cuts in line with the dictates of the
IMF. This has led to the rapid rise of a left opposition inside the LSSP, associated with
the well-known mass leader, Vasudeva Nanayakkara, the member of parliament for the
Ratnapura district. |
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Lanka was one of the countries worst affected by the tsunami disaster.
The government is now trying to exploit the situation to its advantage,
but the huge wave that struck the country has brought out many
contradictions and prepared to further destabilise an already very
unstable regime. 
