In the struggle to defend their democratic and social rights, students need to turn towards the working class, the only social force that can lead that political struggle.
Wickremesinghe’s message underscores his determination to impose the burden of the deepening economic crisis gripping Sri Lanka onto the working class and the poor.
In 2022 the accumulating pressure of these intersecting elements of the world capitalist crisis attained the equivalent of critical mass: that is, they have reached the point where the dynamic of crisis has passed beyond the ability of governments to control the movement toward a social cataclysm.
Wickremesinghe’s all party conference is another attempt to enlist the support of the opposition parties amid growing popular anger against his government’s vicious austerity program.