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How did Sri Lanka, where the revolutionary socialist left was so strong, descend into the politics of ethno-national chauvinism? That left was in large part itself culpable. Dan Katz tells the tragic story.
How did Sri Lanka, where the revolutionary socialist left was so strong, descend into the politics of ethno-national chauvinism? That left was in large part itself culpable. Dan Katz tells the tragic story.
General strike in Ceylon (later Sri Lanka), 1953. But the LSSP party that led it would soon capitulate to Sinhalese chauvinism, betraying the country's Tamil minority and socialist principles, and fuelling Sri Lanka's disastrous trajectory Ceylon (renamed as Sri Lanka when the country became a republic in May 1972) won independence from Britain, peacefully, on 4 February 1948.
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