Socialist Challenge1977Socialist Challenge No. 6, 21 July 1977SPEAKON Free Sri Lanka prisoners
Socialist Challenge No. 6, 21 July 1977 · p. 12 of the scan · 138 words
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page 12 of the scan
THIS WEEK sees elections in Sr Lanks after the break ap of the of the bourgeois Sri Lanka reedom the former Trotskyist LSSP and de Com munist Party.
When Parliament was suspendwhich the Government has ruled ace the mass upsurge of 197 NO AS TARO TA DO TELE monthly in This allowed the Janatha Vimakthi Peramuna (JVP), since 1971, to re-register itacif as a political party.
Out of about 20,000 people arrested in 1971, no more than a co trial. The majority have been released but are kept under constant surveillance. are just under 200 JVP political Rohan Wijewerra, one of the marked by proscribed wave of strikes invoiving hospe demanding, political prisoners.
We are for the demands which the most progressive sections of the workof many odds: *Relense ull political prisoners:
*Hands off the JVP.