The police raids on the FSP are part of an intensifying wave of repression being unleashed by Wickremesinghe’s government aimed at crushing all anti-government opposition.
He has been backing many governments in power and he has been part of some but he is now coming in as a minister with more powers to give effect to his promises.
The Frontline Socialist Party has abandoned its previous phrase-mongering, now insisting that socialism is a task for the distant future, and offering the false hope of solutions within capitalism by ending corruption and making token reforms.
By Rathindra Kuruwita Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was likely to appoint some senior public officials to the Central Bank despite their involvement in the Treasury bond scams, Education Secretary of the Frontline Socialist Party (FSP) Pubudu Jayagoda said yesterday. Jayagoda told the media that it was likely that Wickremesinghe himself would become the Finance Minister. […]