In June 1964, amid a massive crisis pregnant with revolutionary possibilities, the Pabloite LSSP entered into Madame Bandaranaike’s Sri Lanka Freedom Party government. This was the first time that a party claiming to be Trotskyist and historically associated with the Fourth International had entered into a bourgeois government.
Commemorating Wije Dias in war-torn northern Sri Lanka is significant because only the SEP has consistently fought for the unity of the working class and opposed both Sinhala chauvinism and Tamil separatism.
Workers and youth who attended the memorial meeting to honour Wije Dias spoke with the <em>World Socialist Web Site </em>about the key political role he played in the SEP and the International Committee of the Fourth International.
Here we are publishing messages sent by leaders of sections of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI), for the memorial meeting paying tribute to Wije.