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every leedr sloway Road ele and Highbuay North Wembley BR Station. Bookshops RADEOND: FOUr BANGOR: Kainbow! n Mea Book. Holyhead : Fullmarks, 110 CheltenBookshop, ILFORD, Soulh Essex Bookshop, 335 MILSON KEYNES: Okleaf Books, Books, 54 Cowle High St, Leiester, and V Karia, s37 LEICESTER: Blackthorı LIVERPOOL: News from Nowhere, By M Soori THE ELECTION victory of the United National Party candidate JR Jayawardene (JR) in last month's presidential elections in Sri Lanka will undoubtedly lead to further erosions in the democratic rights and living standards of the masses. The UNP government decided to advance the presidential elections (not due until February '84) because the World Bank insisted that it should implement a series of tough austerity measures including a steep devaluation of the rupee and further cuts in social service expenditure especially in education and health. Already the UNP had indicated that the rupee will be devalued shortly and by as much as 50 per cent.
The government also lost no did LOSC WIlO SUDDOR Laem Ine SaST Thousands have continuing iheir jobs in the governmen alu i sualt curDuraliol. estaousnment. emergency has been imposed in the Jaffna District, the only in the h tet on.
Party been sealea ana unenr ornices closcd aown.
Furthermore JR has now decided to hold the due next June but instead to extend the life of Parlament by Six vears LAUS ensuring nim the massive majority he has in setback tllC Class oner oopressea masses. sc wny was ine unr able to win despite their anti-working class policies over the last five yadis The UNP was able to mobilise unc wnoe covernment aparatus including two Icsapci groups, radio, television. and the govern ment servants to it adantage The police turned a blind systematically employed by InC Ur dIl ODDOSELiUlISiS " a number of opposition party metings were broken up by its thovernment patronage -jobs and ! contracts Was emoiovea on a laree scale. The UNP VICLOr was acilitated first by the largel successfull call for abstention particularly Tamil speaking people Tamils The Tamil United Libera tion Front called for a boycott because they did not relations with Hollallsl anu progressive erouDs Jomnea une oovCOn chorus and objectively assisted the UNP. Theirs was an emotional response rather than a well thought strategy Second the opposition parties could not field a canole e v colo mole lor workers, and opnationals against thi pasalils The allayl lu sinsic canuidale of the left despite severe adenocs RapisationS such the Government Clerical Service Union failed.
pro-Moscow Com1 lit munist Partv which had unti *țhe nomın on cav cen ce impression that they would trotskyists) and who claimed unal incie was no aricrenct perween Ine Iwo bourgeois (the UNP and the SLFP) suddenly switched i the SLFP canozv d that the SLF: stood for democracy!
E ven mer isere a te Lankan ected to Militant tendency i Britan). wno nau stalcu lilai hey would support the car didate of the LSSF Colvin R de Silva on condition h supports their whole proUltimately they their candidate who used his plattorm to at Ine canacale of the ano lo ask ine neonle to give the second preference not to for the bourgeois SLFI Although the British Milicancæ cae onc enc Lankan affiliate was a mass party _and much bigger thar their candidats managed get only 17,000 votes (0.26%) out of a total of •.4 mon vole. wane une LOSK polled the SLFP could not decide or a candidate until the very last moment Was ali call electioneering Une SLFP was squabbling among themselves. Murky It was an excellent opportunity to launch Colvin as a common canuluac ol lic oo DOSIIOT atoun was sabotaged by the CP and the nese macan die soner Matter SLFP notably Icaucis Daruar arike uu nul suDD0r Friday 26 Nov at 5.30pm Friends Meetina House Euston Rd, London Campaign for the release of Eelam Political Prisoners in Sri Lanka, c/o Grays Inn Bulding, Roseberry Ave, London ECI. him. In fact his only speech in Ine elecuon campalgn damag ed the SLFP because he claimed that the SLFP once elected restore civil daranaike) and then resign.
The JVP ran a particularly murky campaign using sinvilala culauvıisl orobozard win voles trom toe olr and concentrating its main attack parties oriented culll duc.
Government Clerical Service NODP. mallil aroue une Union used the electoral cam paign to advance the need fos an independent working class anis iree trom boln bourgeol: pante ganisatiene p rase root organisations workers canuuale duyalic Ing sener cemana designed to achieve the above objectives.
joint effort has : way for a unificathe IllUsl Class col scious elements or une work ing class movement.
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