About 60 people, including fishermen, farmers, daily wage workers, youth and housewives listened to SEP candidates outline the party’s socialist program.
In flagrant violation of the country’s constitution and basic democratic rights, Sri Lanka’s unelected president, Ranil Wickremesinghe, has cancelled the island-wide local elections to be held March 9.
The well-attended lecture discussed the political betrayal of the mass movement that brought down the Rajapakse government and the necessity to build revolutionary leadership in the working class.
The government’s move is part of its broader attacks on the democratic rights of the masses in preparation for suppressing opposition to its savage austerity measures dictated by the IMF.
The SEP is fielding candidates for three local government bodies the Kolonnawa Urban Council in Colombo, the Maskeliya Pradeshiya Sabha in Nuwara Eliya and the Karainagar Pradeshiya in Jaffna.