Jayasekera explained that the working class need to take matters into their own hands to fight for a socialist and internationalist solution to their burning social and democratic issues.
The Colombo meeting is a part of a series of meetings in Sri Lanka, as well as around the world by the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI), to build an international anti-war movement of the working class based on socialist policies.
Ratnayake has dedicated his entire adult life, encompassing some six decades, to the fight for the socialist emancipation of the working class and the oppressed masses.
The Sri Lankan meeting unanimously adopted a resolution calling for a halt to the Netanyahu regime’s war on Gaza and urging workers and youth to defend the Palestinian people.
Jayasekera said that Gunathilake had not wavered one iota from his struggle for revolutionary principles, despite immense difficulties, including state witch-hunts, the thuggery of goons and the treachery of the trade union bureaucracies.