US and UK academics and WSWS arts writers denounce the violent assault on Dehin Wasantha and Lakshman Fernando by pro-government union leaders at Moratuwa university.
“The attack by two SLPP thugs shows the pathetic state of the ruling Wickremesinghe regime which resorts to physical violence to stop the cultivation of socialist consciousness among workers and youth.” Andrei Ritsky, Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists from the former Soviet Union.