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Letters . . .
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exercise, Mr. de Vos must make some concrete criticisms of the concept in question. (By the wa 'surplus" is not coterminous wit "profits'. Get to the back of the class and work it out for yourself, Costain).
De Vos is an entertaining chap
but should not be let loose in certain areas. He tends to be an intellectual vagrant. At the end
of his letter where he challenges me on nature of exploitation and exploitative societies we find him hanging around “Gulags', Tien an Men Square and Kampuchea.
Capitalist society is by its very nature exploitative; as a system, socialism is not. Let him answer just a few questions.
What is his understanding of the word"exploitation". Ils capitalism,
as a system, inhere or not is socialism so, or non-explic know all the ans whether he knows
Could retur topic of my artic was heartened newly resurrected ment" covering of liberal opinion Statement signed guished Sri Lank, conclusions very stated in my b,
Doctor, he
H. W. Fowler great lexicograph Шапguage. The who dared use as a nomo de plu the hallowed ni He hasn't obvic
Trends . . .
(Cαπτίπι Ρέι Ρίτη μαμε τ)
The ABC or 3 R's of diplomacy have Ittle to do with the GI's R ind R or dolce witd.
Cigarettes
The forgest queues in Colombo during the last few days have been for cigarettes and petrol. The strike at Tobacco Co. Ta de cigarettes a very dear commodity in which there was a thriving black market. When cigarettes had almost vanished off the shelves, the government decided that locally sold cigarettes should carry a health warning on their packets.
Cigarette advertising is banned in |2 countries, Including Norway, Finland, Singapore, Afganistan and Italy Twenty-eight Countries including Britain drid New Zealand prohibit advertilsing om radio and TV. With the US and UK, eight other countries required health warning with each cigarette pack and their ddwert sing.
Tom-foolery
The President has come down sharply on globe-trotting secretaries and high officials, whose journeys are not really necessary. Fine, Here's a trip that raised eyebrows among media men.
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Baghdad recently of representatives fr пIsatӀолs of the пог Sri Lanka's delegd Path Inding than who
1953 and held sewe ding that of Food C he was suddenly t bureaucrat 5 CC7|| thiE poration or the P Pool, meaning cold. was rescued by a k, found himself in Stute 15 A55|5fdlt
The riddle 5: gllsחf Jourם חסtl servant belong?
Down under
By the grace kdn uppeח5rILd drived. The "O Its young sa dies tasting party. T proved so heady d lost bred thesis ter mi:55Ed Woj5 t. fter. A member mat's family sud ground: not qult but down uri 'Bloody beer-dr. sorted a Brooke the "mother" Cour

tly exploitative :rcם וח יום , ס5 IE55
tactive? I don't yers. Let's see 1ny.
to the real
le — the cyclone? to note that the
"Peoples MoveA wide spectrum has released a
by 80 distin15 which teaches lose to those I "ief contribution.
Chintaka
all thyself
was one of the ers of the English
local illiterate is revered name me has insulted me of Fowler.
usly understood
hosted a meeting Orm Journalist orgg1-aligned countries. te Was Mr. Tom Joned the CCS In ral key posts, incluommissioner. Ther ransferred to what National lice Cor. ublic Administration storage. Recently he ndly benefactor drid the Ministry of Secretary.
Гo what огgапілаEs de es th's Civil
of the IMF, the r class has truly erver' had one of
COWer Wree Wine nust hy we that the prose was What the reporе опӀу пеwsworthy of a top diploenly sank to the under the table E", fewerf hele 55. king barba rians''" Bond's type from
Y.
of Haan"5 calls it
the subtle sarcasm
article, and therefore pedantic and boring. He says Haan is like a child who has learnt a few new high sounding Words, who kes to show of to
his elders his new discoveries. Having known Elmer for over forty years and being well ac
qua inted with his writings, I was a trifle surprised by the accusation of pendantry being attributed to his writing. I therefore re-read his article "The House that Jack Built" (L. G. Jan 15th) There were two Latin phases, which perhaps, broke the back of our local "Fowler", but besides this there were no "long,' learned "words or" pollysllables", as the local "Fowler" claimed.
The boot was really on the other foot." He ha 5 himself used a polysilabic and uncommon word viz "hobblede hoyhood".
should like heall thyself!
It is true that this article was resurrected by the Lanka Guardian and all honour to it, because no other newspaper da red to publish it. It was anti-establishment not only during the colonial era, but was too provocative even during post-independence years and was therefore to gather dust like the Dead Sea Scrolls, which Were discovered con turies later This essay has stood the test of
to say, Doctor
time for its 5 arcasm and Caustic wit. It is not the stereotype cringing letter which the local
Fowler would have appreciated. but an impudent one, which the white bogges who troid on their colonial slaves, richly deserved. Few dared baiting or defying the British Raj in their heyday - least of all the Burghers. All honour to Elmer de Hean who in his own way contributed to the anti-imperialist movement unlike the Surviving lickspittles of the genre of "Fowler".
Amaradas a Fernando
I97 and a II that
agree with Mr. A. Jayaweera that this debate has gone on long enough, particularly since it
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News background
Counting the
tanley Tillektratle, the forme
Speaker, was in fine form. The SLFP meeting was in Kotte, his home ground. Beside him was party leader Sirima Banda Tanaike looking extremely cheerful as she studied the very large crowd. A witty speaker, Stanley was on the subject of the poor man's hardships and the rich man's extravagance, the result he said of the UNPos economic and foreign policies, both subservient to the IMF, and other global agencies and alliances. "That is why' the punch line came smartly' "American chicken and Chinesa broilers are nestling nicely in the cold rooms of Elephant Flouse'
Some said he was carried away by his own Weakness for the wisecrack. But others interpreted it as am attempt to please the proSoviet CP'ers in Kotte, Stanley himself beginning his career in the CP. Anyway, he is in trouble with the pro-Peking think-tank in the party. And Stanley was doing well. As the LG reported sometime ago, he is a prominent contender in the future leadership stakes. In the upper-middle level group, hic has outplaced Laksh Than Jayakody, Ratne Desha priya etc and patched up old quarrels with the bosses.
Stanley, it was observed, did not - Tefero to MiLiiitri pala Scinanayake as ""deputy ledd cr”. To project an image of tight unity at the top, SILFF" ers use this title quite often these days. At the back of their in inds is the question of leadership, formal or effective. At the same meeting, a defiant Mrs. B said that a loss of a seat or civic rights is not going to make her quit politics.
A Iura, who has al hElbit of annoying party stalwarts by disbuIrsing por Lfonlios and SLFP nominations for 1983, predicted that Stanley would have an important ministry. 'No' said a bashful Stanley in a stage whisper, "I'll remain Speaker'".
chicken
Afrira B
When the rep "Sri Kotha”, a chieftain has bi "Kentucky Fried broilers thr Chit these SLFP fell their chickens hatched.
Drug Min
Ti
are using d in marketing til "Third World" , alleged in ab Charles Medaw in London by book is based by the Internati of Consumers
Insult or Injury ges thalt
* Some Britis companies d wide the sai "Thi Tad Wol developed W
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Elephant House
Anura Incanwhile is in the thick of it. Last week he had a furious slanging match with his favouritic and formidable antagonist, the Princ Minister, and wives, mothers and para mours were tossed about by the wordy gusts of debate. "This is only Round 4" remar
ked a lobbyist, “Premadasa Will take Anura the full fifteen TCL Tids...”.
An SLFP delegation from Balapitiya exchanged sharp words with ATT LI Tal at a Seminar in Galici. I Kotte, some bearded youth heckled hill and threw questions about Miss Man amperi, the Kataragama beilly who died in 1971, and Mr. Weera sooriya, the u Thiversity student shot dead in 1976. But how did those “bearded ones' get in Did anybody send them?
NOW Anura has been ticked off by party secretary, Ratna siri. Allura Wants to appoint som youth organisers. Sorry, says the Secretary, all party bodies have been disbanded.
NCs and the 'Third World
dTug companies ifferent standards Čir nedicines Llo Hill tries. This is ok authored by ar and published Social Air. The 1 a study finded onal Organisation Unions. Entitled this book chair
1 pharmaceutical not #1 llways proe information to coluntries as to 1:5 ECTIn COLI I tie5.
igher dosages are in "Third World" In in Britain
do not always ormation on side : drugs that they
" The information provided is inconsistent about which illnesses Ciln bo i reated by various drugs and which groups of PEl tients should be treated.
The drug MNCs promote their products by giving free drug samples to doctors, which is a practice open to abuse becase some doctors profit by selling them to patients or to Wholesalers.
On the Whole, this book has Tendered a valuable service by demonstrating once again thatmului. national drug companies follow marketing practices in our countrie that would not be El ciceptable in their house bases such as Britain and the developed West in general. The UNP government which has gone a long way in reversing the pharmaceutical policies of the late Dr. Senaka Bibile, should tak: cognis Eince of these facts.
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Varsity quotas (
ecent allegations about overmarking of Tamil scripts have brulught p To Impt and strong Tejoinders from many university t:achers. They all agTec on ole point - hold an impartial inquiry.
University admissions on district quotas or ill-disguised racial quotas have also been roundly condemned.
Prof. P. W. J. Jaya sekara and Dr. Gajamaraged cra issued a statement on these issues on
behalf of the Peradeniya Teachers' Association. Now 37 dons, including 6 professors, from several of our universities have issued a statement from which We take these conments:
It was alleged at the press conference that a rescrutiny of advanced level scripts showed that about 4000 Tamil scripts had been
äwa Tided more a 115wcrs de serve impression was the Whole Tarn been dish on csl. is a very seri allegation and drawn from their very closc scrutir be establish cd O inquiry has beer
"A Sinhalcse, Muslim candidate nation not as a his race but as has a right to individual, The
marking by an e the scripts in q by a more com cor, where it is the that is in questi examiner,
Stand:
Sinhaputhra
SP was the pseudony Ill used by the author of several articles on the SLFP published in the "Daily News'. Giving many clues to his identity, the L. G. analysed his current tactics as part of a great war-game that is now going con unknown to UNP, SLFP o T ULF Wolters o ewcem Lhe rank-and-file.
Sinhaputra fights like a lone partisan behind the SLFP's lines. Now he has shifted to propaganda and psy-war aimed at the SLFP leadership, Mrs. Bandaranalike and her family. A third leaflet has just come out, Sir Solomon Dias Bandaranalike titled his Imemoirs "Remembered Yesterdays'. The new leaflet recalls the yesterdays of each membar of the Bandara
4
strikes
a;
Inaya ke-Rat wat tå
individual's “toda is derogatory a sland crous. It is Talcket, Washing di
Public figures,
and press men : Visiting card - it putra" and it a lion (Sinha). Adw in the Daily N. Sinhaputra – drei row's reality:
Sinha putra is i a finance comp Kandy. A top po the custodian ol has links with t He hans intimate putra, the Pamph
 

r witch's brew
larks than the and a general created that on examiners had This obviously Ius charge. The the conclusions deserve therefore y. The facts can ily after a proper
held,
a Tamil, or a
sits for an examirepresentative of an individual, he c teaed as a Tennedy for owerkaminer is to get lestion re-marked pictent examin Cr, cxaminers honesty on, by an honest ardisation can be
iga In
clan and each y'. Much of it ld some of it the old laundry ty linen in public.
SLFP supporters tre receiving a
only says 'Sinha: a crest with a rtisements appear WS" and "SL". m today, to mor
13 to the Ille of any located in itical personality, a sacred relic, lis organisation. inks with Sinha|ctcer. C
considered a solution to over marking or under-marking only if it is held that it is not possible in a given medium to get a sufficient number of honest and competent examiners.
"Admission to institutions which claim to be national must of necessity be based on merit. If it is felt-and we can envisage many reasons why one should so feel-that merit cannot be judged by extina inition marks alone and that some adjustment must be Inade for lack of facilities then the only valid procedure is to identify on an objective basis before the examination those schools in which facilities are below stiandard. At the saIThe time the In a LLIre of the adjustment to be made also should be decided. The present practice of deciding each year. after the examination on the mixture of devices to be adopted is obnoxious. A large number of students are thus left dreading what potion their's would bc from the witch's brew each year brings.
(1) Authorities concerned with the conduct of examinations should be ever vigilant to detect irregularities and be ready with methods of combating them. They should refrain from making without proper inquiry, directly or indi, ectly, suggestions which a Tc mislica
ding: (2) There is a need for an impartial and representative
committee to inquire into all allegations of examination malpractices against individual examiners and to investigate whether there has becna significant discrepancy in marking standards in the various media.
(3) A Standing Committee of
Parli Lent should be forme with powers to verify whether admissions to Universities and other national institutions halwe bicien in accordance with the procedures laid down.
(4) Admissions based on district and racist quotas favour the
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When the ascetics
From a correspondent
Kandy
n unwary visitor to Kandy who A crossed the Peradeniya bridge om February 3 would hawe had the uncomfortable feeling that he mas being singled out for some special treatment. The dust and grine which usually receive him when hc crosses the bridge were missing, the trucks carrying away mounds of soil from the former golf course, betraying a II signs of a busy nation at work were absent. Silence reigned on a once noisy thoroughfare. At the entrance to the Pera deniya Gardens was a whole heap of Yamaha bikes, sleeping, waiting presumably to be woken up or rather revved up by some Prince Charming.
To confirm this were cops, standing in a kind of studied disarray, keeping an anxious еус on the surrounding trees and bushes and giving the impression that they were the only sign of human life. Where had all the humanity gone? Right now they were tucked away at a bend on the Peradeniya road, behind a barbed wire, giving them only a tele-photo view of Whatever ritual the cops were planning for that afternoon.
As the unwary visitor sped by, he got the impression that he was very much like the film hero Harold Lloyd stumbling into a situation whCrc he was not at all welcome. There Were school children lined up intermittently all the way to Kandy, each carrying a little paper flag to be waved appropriately, not for him, but for some great dignitary they had been told to line up for.
All this preparation, it was soon apparent, was for Mr. Desai, a simPle, ascetic nan who keeps a sprightly 81 by drinking a daily glass of his own urine. One of his behests, soon after he was overwhelmingly voted into office as Prime Minister of India, was that the previous Indian custom of in ing up school children to receive go Werin milent plenipotentiaries should be discontinued.
Possibly it has With in India. Soon after the in to office, Mr. Til I, the Minis siriliilarly disconti bald habit of usi Lo s Well the circ El 1 ETel 11: Il followers do not Precepts
Kandy town sed for the Ilor prising stillness. stood still along Wey much as it the elephants tak Maligawa. The Cer eEInoniously I bu their time worn no Idlers and loi Wedi din either sit mille stretch to K Toad a remarkab spick and span.
The precepts
ildhered Lo elsew Press had given
that ceremonies ci Celebration of ind be Within Rs. 25. tainly count more Worth of celebri y 01 Welt, Besit Tilly gove TIFTEIL
for the occassion which inceded the
At the Bogamb; Were Tcle Wcd cFFu Calls for simplicity President. A sta being put rather independence page halfway into a SLITLICH LITE2 til CTI for less spending Was observed, but
There was an a biness in the man public and the pre presumably, in tryin Ceps. Pessme w to get to close freely. Were the that the fourth es Wants they claim being cribbed and

came to Kandy
been done away Dr has it? Here, UNP Was Wolled Nis Sankan Wijeyeter of Education, illed the previous Lg School child Tel Wds. But what
do when their
adhere to their
itself had lapment into a sur
Humanity itself
the pavements, does often when e off from the El Wkers Were Linindled out from
stands. Besides, LCI:TS Werc – de of the four
andy giving this e look of being
Were not being here Loo. The the impression Il neced with the lependence would . You could cer: than 250 rupees ations wherever les, there were Wehicles loaned 1 from services in badly.
r:L green the Tts til leed the made by the .g. which was solidly for an Elli L Will 5 tl" 1 1InբեIImanent Tm to the call The precept at What cost.
ill round shahher in which the '95 WCT treated, g to follow pre’ere II ()t il || 0yed BT LO IIO WE: (i) great Illaware Hitto, who sic scr[ hley Te, was confined.
Elsewhere the cops were telling the people to fall back and kсер a clear road for the motorcade. They kept on falling back unil El Cr) Wided train from Matale, travelling at about 7 m. p. h. With its doors all open struck the crowd falling back until four of them fel under the wheels of the Coaches.
Cyclone and Social justice
hold We wait to shed tears
for those thousands of brothers and sisters who have been reduced to beg from us and foreigners as a result of the recent natural disaster? Over 50,000 families who lost their home, their cultivated fields and relatives have now been thir calc ncd with fal mine and etniidemic Mere Welfarist measures will not pro vide solutions to the basic problems of the people. Not only natural disasters but social inequalities and injustices can also be overcome only by the people organising themselves, says a statement issued by the People’s Movement dedicated to the release of political prisoners, abolition of repressive laws and safeguarding democratic and human rights in Sri Länka.
The statement entitled "Let us intervene in the cyclone disaster' says that in the present social systein even the subsidies and donations are not distributed Equitably among the victims. And to overcome and prevent these injustices, corruption and partisan considerations that determine thic distribution of these among the people of the affected areas it is imperative that genuine People's Movements are formed in those areas. This will also arrest the trend of weakening the public interest generated by sympathy and will regularise the distribution of donations etc. The statement finally makes an appeal for the
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Opinion
Lanka's unpleasi
by Christopher Hitchens
(A well-krolyn British Journalist)
What though fhe spicey breezes Blap sof o’er Ceylon's isle: Though every prospect pleases Arid only 777I7I is wille Wi yra ir vivifi la vis kiri dra5,5 The gif y பிற ITe stroT; The Weatler in his blir dress Bows do ir a voad d sae.
ishop Reginald Heber was of EBR. an old fool of the old school, and knew no more about Ceylon than he did about "Greenland's icy mountains', Like most missionary perceptions of the East, his Was almost exactly wrong. The people of Ceylon are far from Wile but their country is surrounded by a rich vista of prospects, all of them successively unpleasing. The island is in many ways a convenient miniature of thic Third World and its problems, displaying all or most of the features which dog that group of countries cynically known to the rich nations as "developing.
These could be 5lım mırised a 5: a one crop economy (in this case, tea) which is at the mercy of the world market and which deterII is te di Wisi) of labolu T i Tsie: the country. Then, immense rural and urban un employi Tlent (Enearly 20 percent) which has doubled Kince 1970. Next, an extrem ely low average age (half the population of Ceylon is under 25) coupled with acute over production of graduates and trained people who arc faced with a choice between joblessness and ciligration (Ceylon has the high est literacy ra te in Asia after Japan, and an immense brain drain to the Middle East.)
Continuing the saga, one encounters the "debt trap' which places the country in hock for
years ahead and c it with debts whic the e IliTat GNP repayment alone. dra Ilmatic xa Hiple dcncy, having bi years one of . basket cases of th World Bark in 1 S243.31 million f aid 552.65.51 milli Previous years i utaggering totals, \ future generations it is feasible to expenditure increa dence, since all th come from ad Vance required a large tri kild irnlı order ter) youth insurrectic place in 1971.
prisoners from thi just being releas tales of torture,
beginning to 1. appearance in government-domin
Ceylon also his post-colonial feat pre- colo Iii: | econ. BT3k: Bold al II domina ting large
less) and a sewere inherited from thi and T Lle. Wheel drew they simply to the still who lewe T since hi Iarge Tn. Inil Ini language as sicco T aspect they even serfs, having Temo from the pola Int:Atio T by || FC British fr:) tht: HrduoլIs tta | The Ille "Sri LFT simply Ileans ' Sinhala and as st Buddhist and Cha of the uppercrust it anything but C

ng prospects
ventually Saddles :h absorb almost yn ser wicing and Ceylon is a of this depenecome ower the he outstanding ie IMF and the 977 it borrowed rom the West, from Collecon. nvolved similar which will saddle for as long as Foresee. Milita ry ses this depenLe geo ar h as tio d nations. Ceylon ansfusion of this put down the i Which tok The political is period are only ed, With their and stillwation Ake A caulticulis EctiUn5 of the inted press.
lhe other Common. IL1 Tes — A largely mic elite (with di Liptons still sections of busiethnic problem days of divide the Britis. Withanded power Sinha la elite, We teated the nority and its [d cla5s, lin one treat ther as wed the franchise | Tamils brought in India to work growing hillsides. ika" incidentally, Holy Ceylon' in llic: Teflet || LH Llwinist character Nobody calls cylion.
The culminating symbol of Third World despair found here on a very developed form, is the habit of calling this form of exploitation and bankruptcy socialist. The terril is almost obligatory in the developing World from Mugas be to Mintoff and Iron Somalia Lo Singapore, Be your country never so cockroach capitalist, it is still пеcessary to proclaim a “progressiwe” cha Tacter. The “Delilocratic" Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a pace-setter in this respect switching from autarchy to free trade and back with gay abandon. Wood Ild stone still hawe their part to play as Bishop Heber would probably not have predicted.
Last Ionth faced with a catastrophic cyclone in the Eastern province of the island, the gover Ilment allowed a special showing of the 'tooth relic" in the holy city of Kandy and caused special trains to run between the capital and thic shrinc. The whole affair was reminiscent of those Christian Deliocratic Tiracles which occur in Italy at election times liquefying blood or animating images for the greater consolation of the ticket. The queues which stretched into the distance guarded by uniformed policemen and monks with saffroil robes and Tolled umbrellas (rolled umbrellas') were pretty solidly Sinhala.
This was ironic because the victims of the cyclone were pretty solidly Tamil, and nobody had laid on any special festivities for then. Last year and in some previous years, fanatical racial and Teligio Lis progroms were wisited on thc Tal Imil Community, which before British rule had its own areas and kingdoms. In the 1977 election almost cvery Tamil seat Was won by a party which proclaims the desire for a separate state (socialist of course).

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Tamils suffer discrimination alt every level, from employment and language through to the elementary question of physical safety, and the concessions announced by the present government have come too late to make any real difference to their mood. Just to make matters worse, official corruption and inco Impetence hawe obstructed the cyclone relief operation and CTO ded much of the Te Taining trust placed by Tamils in the central government. (It hasn't done much for the confidence of the foreign enn bassies in Ceylon either. Too many of them have seen the consignments of blankets, clothes and lanterns turning up in the World Market bazzar by Colombo central railway station.)
In recent months, guerilla Warfare has started to intensify in the Tani dominated North of the island with bombs and bank robberies becoming a commonplace. The Tamil MPs in thic capital talk gloomily in their imitationWest minister surroundings about the difficulty of restraining the militants if they are not given autonomy. (Does that remind you of anything? It seems to remind the government only of the necessity of firm action and increased military presence.) One gets the depressing impression of Third World interconinunal hatred building up with partition or continued discrimination als the L Wo most likely outcomes.
Meanwhile the government presses busily on with a policy of mortgaging the country to the international terms of trade and the Asian division of labour. The latest phase of this process is known as the "Free Trade Zone (FTZ) which operate very much as it sounds (except that the govern Tinent Tegards industries outside it as under "socialist seilf
manage Incont, means free enter
The concept letting foreign OWI) ticket II cmployment will exports geII cratic a TC lillit less än made (by legist to ensure that bargain from S draft law in C President to di or not a strik allows employers With impunity. the main disa dy as a report by Seers on Ceylon five years ago. that it disto TLS til leads to irrespot of profit and with the films . on at the end leaving workers environment sp as has been fou and Taiwall the often provided labu for Ind female Workers effect on un empl reduced.
The growth of World and the by Ilarly gover Jmultinationals organisers of w 1us led to Sorne sta In Malaysia, f government has saying "Labour I aire al II Thongs li tlh | region and fella can be hired f S1.50 a day'. Th competition, mat Illicit like a comm has got a beat. -culting is sprea Asıl at the II Democratic Social

hich as usual ise for the poor.)
the FTA involves capital write its the hope that be provided and ... Tax holidays every effort is tion in this case) 1 de unions cal Illot "ength. The new lon allows the cide On Whether is illegal and to dismiss workers But this is not intage of an FTZ, Professor Dndley mälde clear 5ome The problem is le la bour market, isible repatriations frequently ends :oncerned II no ving of the holiday jobless and the
oiled. Moreover nd in Singapore "new jobs are
sy expanding the recruiting cheap so that the net by ment is actually
FTAs in the Third abject admission Illents that the are the only brld production tling propaganda. r instance, the issned a leaflet ites in Malaysia lowest in the : factory workers approximately is the sort of cting uncinploylity, that Ceylon A wave of cost 1g over Scouthern ment and the t Republic is in
there with the best of them. Perhaps this is why the President recently made a specch in which he said that developing countries need not always obscrive the ** letter"" of the UN Declaration on Human Rights.
This whole configuration has a very bad cffect on the Left, which has declined terribly in Ceylon over the last decide. Though not a typical Third World socialist movement (its senior figure, Dr. N. M. Percia calls himself a Trotskyist and chairs the Cricket Board of Control) it does have the familiar problems. On the occasions when the Left parties have sat in government, they have administered austerily and orthdoxy with absolute confidence as if hypnotised by the power of the multinationals and the IMF. They also have a very bad record of truckling to anti-Tamil racialism among their Sinhala constituents and of dropping demands for self-determination when they became electorally expensive. The ast government which included both the communist parly and the ex-Trotskyist Party unquestioningly supported the imprisonment and torture of thousands of young rebels after the 1971 i Tisu Trections and its leaders still resent any call for an inquiry into that period. As a result, activity on the Left has devolved more on to younger and untried revolutionaries whose programı me is an unsorted box of ideas from Maio, from Guevara and elsewhere. They pursue an unsteady course between armed struggle and parliamencary reforTismi a Ind can Tot Imake up their Timinds about Tamil Self-deteTmination either.
If Ceylon is a case study for the Third World - and in many ways it is more fortunate than the rest of Asia - then the prognosis is not good. As the neglect and the exploitation grows so does the deImagogy and the despotismo and so does the tendency for each province or race or local enterprise to fragment or go its own way. If Bishop Heber returned to the na tter he would doubtless blame the people of Ceylon for gradually taking their place among the wretched of the earth.

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Development
Mahaveli
the bliss of ignorance.
maSC
“Now that the people are so vereign they ni
"The Planners do not appear to be in touch government, neither appears to be in touch implementers and nobody seems to be in I.
reality.
He LINF Government Seems to
have put lost of its eggs into the Mahawesi basket. The media confirms the political investille I in this project. Yet the viability of the Mahaveli Scheme End the ability to attain the claimed targcts, continue to be questioned by inforInci critics. Garnini Iriyagolle in his The truth about the Mitha Welli,' draws attention to the absense of a feasible plan to implem:nt this gigantic scheme. He also shows whit a watered down wersion is being a tempted under the accelerated program. The.
The UNDP/FAO Master Plan which is the basis oil which the Government is acting, is only an outline in which, only Phase IJs dealt with in soille detail. The a creages to be developed are merc arithmetical figures allocated to each wastirrigation area. According to the UNDP/FAO study itself, He work on Phase II апd III was only of a "reconnaissance character' and was only a "preliminary study".
The feasibility of Phase I which was detailed in the UNDPFAO Plan was exposed by a subsequent IBRD examination. The IBRD there
Existing land
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go ahead with ı TLIpee project is fait frc) 1Tl est a
O Plan proposes nder irrigation of and of which 5 till undeycloped. itory covers in Luarc milles-forty land's land area.
Ilets ärld II terCons llave becn to carry out the which the UNDP) I come up with.
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Total (Acres)
900,000
146,000
405,000
349,000
beat a quiet retreat. "Taking into cũnsideration the fĩIlāmeĩal citimātra= ints of availability of personnel and construction capacities, it was decided to confine thic i Tı mediate progral Ine of accelerated developIIlents to the following reservoirs' write Minister Gallini Dissaraike in July last year, "Wictoria, Randenigala, Kotmale, Moragah akande, Maduru Oya, and Rotalawala.' This would bring only 340,000 acres Of nie. W land Linder the accelerated
p}TU)gria III1 D11 E2.
Il Diccellhier there Was El Further retreat. "Confine development to the construction of five major reservoirs and the development of 320,000 acres of new land, “reportied Minister Dissanaike.
Te table il LLIStates the fact that 349,000 acre of latıd i mı sectionı5 E, F, I, J, K, L, and M, the development of which a Te most difficult and expellisiwe and which in wolwe: two of the biggest items of the Maste Pla Ilie: the Northe TI Canal of 104 miles and the Minipe Canal of 90 miles, have been quietly shel
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IRAN (4)
Rapid developm
by Mervyn de Silva
ithin a year of the oil
boom Iran, the world’s second biggest oil exporter, saw her oil reven Lics more than quadruplcd —from 4. si billion dollars to In ore than 20 billion.
The Shah regarded this new wealth as his great opportunity. Iran would be the world's fifth industrial power by the turn of the century; it would be the West Germany of the Middle East, the Japan of West Asia. These Were the heady slogans of yester year. The reader may recall the in any occasions on which TIME, NEWS
WEEK and other international magazines paid due hornage to
such wain glorious prophecies by inviting the Shah to adorn their cover pages. The cover story was illustrated by glossy photographs of the Iranian Navy in Indian Ocean exercises or the most sophisticated superSonic aircraft in action, of submarines and missiles. The Emperor with his new toys. He will also recall the glittering spectacle of the 2500th anniversary ccl.cbrations of the Iranian monarchy, truly a sal turnalia that Would hawe Ima de a Roman Emperior blush. This subtitle self-advertisement was of course a monumental hoax because the Shah is no nuo Te a member of an illustrious dynasty than corporal Mobutu is Sese Seko or whatever.
Comforted by Sadat, hosted by Hassan (hardly the heroes of the Islamic world) the Shah today must suffer the un kindest cut of all - Carter's cold shouldet. Praying that his winter holiday is not the prelude to permanent exile (it happened before and he did return in triumph cy:orted by the new-style Seventh Cavalry) the Shah recently shared his moments of disenchantment and despair with
With i lubu T4 històric: return frontiation was Illinisters, the Mr. Bakhtiar, nominee, Mr. B. to entres of try can hil ve | nitely. Was a Would one sur OI Tas therë : left-i Tı arnihy |
The Te Wyre Scenarl Whiclı in recent weeks lb lood-bath leidl rule backed by
II, IIItltime sitl,
Sekuni regi a Peking-HanoiDjakarta axis
1 cd Tren tLuro Lusly" “rı affairs. AL
NASAKOM VY: lancing act b| puwerful PKI ( Moslem nation
a foreign corresp. had never been
How did it h; of Kings, the Lig How hawe the ni did the Light ge
Development
Many comment western analysts, fatal error as tha or "over-rapid a corollary, We that Iran was il mllte such “d Cause the CHun r In the favoured sary infrastructil Imma 1p) Wer.
In a sense, walid. High-pres did sharpen old new ones, bring

2nt, but whose
New REGIME
of the Ayatollah's Lo Iran, the conomplete. Two prime Shah's appointele nd the Ayatollah's |rza gun, personified O Ymer. But I 10 CC). Llinual control indefiimpromise possible? encler in the other
till another option ake-Over?
surne Snngs in 1
Ivas widely discussed
: ån Indonesian type
ing to stralight airmy
the West.
the target was the ne, which spoke of Pnom Penl-Ponyang Id follo "Yed an dical line in foreign
hone, Soekarno's El precial rius baltween army, the
to III munists) and the lists. The economy
on dent: "I wish I
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ppen to the King
ut of the Aryans ?
ighly fallen. How
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Lors, particularly locate the Shah’s of "'accelerated" :velopment'. As Te askcal to note prepared lo assirelopment' be
did not possess, idio nin, the necesand skilled
he criticism is 1re development on flicts, circi te sub surface ten
yertupibl4 é“?
OR COUP 2
Wıs Tun do YYı and cl is affection WWE's sprending. The liriny un leased the
Moslem nationalists and right-wing youth organisations on the PKI
which itself was organisationally Ilirch weaker than its nilbers suggested.
In Iran, the ta Tget is not pseudosocialism, but Luna bashed capitalisnin and oppressive monarchy whose fortune and fortunes were integrally linked to the US and the Yest. The Moslenin nition I istis F1 Te the active radical force leading the opposition. Iran has a long border with the USSR.
For the molent, has ywon. If I und When the nie w regime settles down to business what shape will it take, and what will be the actual content of its domestic and forcign policies? Will it be something between Pakistan and Libya or between Egypt and Algeria?
Can the last option (a coup) le completely ruled out?
the Ayatollah
sions to the open and thus celeratic" the crisis.
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These critical observations, nonetheless, neglect to pose a basic question.
The place of development (rapid or over-rapid) is not the main issue but what kind of development and for "Wiose benefit. Understandably some observers shrink from such questions because they challenge the whole concept of development, the model itself.
The Iranian upheaval has many
lessons for other developing" nations. In fact, the les sons arc plainer because Iran's wealth,
para dioxically, multiplied the mista kes and magnified its inimediate consequences.
Weath itself does not prosperity to the nation. capital, investment
bring Money, are certainly
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prerequisites for economic growth but conce Immo Els trously Illislised, I money 01 lly Inggravatics problems which In:ly have been Ilanageable. Who enjoys the fruits of growth How are they shared? Even when this growth results in increased inco II les will L is thic effect II the living standards of the Ill asses? II the end, does it Illar Taw the gap between the rich and the poor or in fact widen it
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Certain types of "development have a relentless logic and momentum of their own. Adversic consequences may be perceived, the mistakes identified but the Critical choices cannot be suddenly changed or suitably a mended without TLıE1ning the risk of a Wesomıe disloLil LIDT15
While it is obvious thit all economic development leads. Lo social change, positive or negative, thc pattern of development in Iran caused social havoc in an amazingly short time (acceleration). These ravages, collectively find CLIITTI Lulatively 50 CT1 car II, the Il Crill revulsion of the peoplc. A grear rewolts Haye (7 TIOrał 7łality. Thorgh well-irifarried and expertly dactPrie Fife', FF7A77 y 777 777 lysis af The Iranian uprising pays in sufficient If féer7 tiay7 E o This Flora diversioE.
Moral dimension
In the consciousness of the peoplc, specially the heightened consciousness of a people in fevered motion, there is perhaps to great divide between the moral and the religious. This throw's light on (a) Why the Ayat0llah becai Ille the symbol and focus of the anti-Shah LLLHHLHHLlL LLLLLaL LLLL LLLLLLLL S SLLLSS Ired a leading and active role and (b) ho W a Weirdly assorted collection of social groups, with diverse political inclinations, were F1 ble to Achieve : TITELF kable degree of "unity in action'.
The wealth of Iran, says the Ayatollah, belongs to the people of Iran. This is no political manifest of economic cred. It is a simple but devastating In oral criticist of the Shah's role, of the System hic iTriStilled, if the social and personal conduct of the ruiling clique and its predatory foreign patrons,
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Admittedly, tl IIl Cilt is a notle: point is repeated by dispassionate those who grievi over the downfa take wicarious pl dictions about |
A moral revulsi El Inger, a deeply Wis the ce:Iller til loose aliance.
lit know what is public". All of cWell know what they all know again St. They III future or sec ht They hawe seen they ha te it.
Islamic protest
(Gifted Sclıq olar; dison have not broad understan. a phenomenon СОпLепрогагу ро Our tittentic III to social C)! LLGCI 1 L EI ideology could powerful II motiwa populaT movemen hazily or fit fully formation.
Despite the ge Thess of the Ali (one of the thre fied in Nisser's Rei'a rior') it i Il 1 L Titic F1 livet e to in this period of 15.1111; 11, The lid Moslem w I contain too man dered by sharply 53 (C) CI, ) — L: : i (ITTI C (, WCell Til tid I-state gies of the rulin antagonistic inter and the ruled, in dependent relatio dominHint native g interests, lo per ILI CILs Ft Ti di 5 elf-pii: tion5. Mr. Sıdı! betray the Palesti TCCCT1 TCIli IldET interests of the disguised as "I TIL COLIITT LI Pal-Islamis II.
E VETT TOT I bia's blunt respo

he protest movey coalition. This Ily made Illot only observers but by ng (and Secretly) II of the Shah -re from բreנן H5ט :he ChEos äheld,
on and a profound destructive one, ng factor in this All of theill Inay 3 -*a. I'll Isl:LIllic rethem may not they want. But what they a Tc 1 ay not see the w it will work, the past, and
s like Maximilie Ro
o Inly giv c1 Lis a ling of Islam as And a force in litics EL LL draw Il its progressive ld how such all li cricforce LLI r nl iimto - Ling factor in ts ait led, however , all social trans
ographic compact"Ebstanic World is "circles' identi"Philosophy of the s an act of rospeak, at least history, of Panwer-laping Arab lds of West Asia y col flicts cingen
Li nequu al lewels of levelopment bet: by the ideolog g Ico Luis, by the ests of the rulers rid by the interEls between thicse roups and foreign hit such an ingeratifying assumpt's readiness to inian peoplc is a that the wested domina II t group, tional interest', Pä Il-Arabis II o T
ing is Saudi Ara - I se to the Ira I lill
situation. While millions were yelling "down With tle Shah" and the Ayatollah was calling for an Islamic Tcpublic, Prince Fahd, the rical ruler of Saudi Arabia, custodian of Mecca, the holy of holies, was lamenting over the tribulations of the Shah, whom he described as a noble leader and a bastion of regional security and WESLETT. 11 LçT:5L 5.
The Prop het and the clearly came second to dollars and US patronage.
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It is nevertheless important to
remember, as Professor Fouad Ajam has observed, that "during the age of colonialism, Islam provided the road to rewol'. To the eyes of the Iranian masses, its more enlightened sections of the middle class and the intelligent sia and all those Iraniams even vaguely, moved by a liberating sense of patriotism, the Shah and his cohorts had converted Iran into a colony in every sense but Lihle for Inilal.
As Anthony Mcdermott wrote in a recent article, Shiis Illin, itself a radical departure from mainstream Sunnis II, produced in modern times a tendency 'which was capable of entertaining and adapting to new concepts'. While the repression made the mosque the only forum and the mullah preached the sacred doctrine, the 'mujtahed a preacher of a higher rank by virtue of his certificate "ijiti had (interpretation) played the part of interpreter of day-to-day affairs.
In short, a social commentator ad Cirilic.
The Ayatollahs (the highest
rank) and the mullahs ate contemptuously dismissed as fanatics and obscurantists by thic Shah and his western supporters for whom Christianity and western values represent the finest flowers of human civilis altion.
Religips-taalist ideologies and Frovenie is do wear to faces:
Forward-looking, Trid refragressive,
What fis irraportar t iis the donrriinaarr characteristic of the risionalist resP 277 se i77 07 Partie Zular period of History or To T given crisis or
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NAZISM : witch - hun
by Jayantha Somasunderam
LAW, ORDER AND POLITICS MN PM ́ES7" GERMAN }′ by Sebas fiar Cohler, a Penguin Special ፵፰3PD.
ebastian Cobler was still in his twenties when he wrote this book in 1976. But then the issues that arise out of the FedeTa | Republic's coum Lier-terrorism
campaign arc those that affect yolul Ing people. Thosc who arc being held in German prisons,
those who have taken their lives in prison, are the young, members of the post-war generation.
Cobler has studied the legislation of the West German State Security System as part of his docto Tı l rdc searchı.
He discerns the authoritarian trend in the fifties itself when the KPD was banned and stringent security measures began to appear. This coincided with economic difficulties, inflation and unemployment rose, the image of growth disappeared. “With no picture, the frame too begins to crack."
It was the young who felt the economic Wicc thrcatening them — they were the victims of unemployment and job insecurity. They were Lhe ones who turned to terrorism. This was the crisis of the Iodern West German State.
Cobler's book is a brilliantly documented indictinent of the West German legal system, which he exposes as an adjunct of the ruling class in their attempts to stifle criticism and opposition. He draws attention to the hysterical clannour for morc and more repression, for witch hunts against dissidents, as part of the establishment's counter terrorism.
Chancellor Helmut Schrinidt when Commello Tating the 1938 attack on Jewish shops, reminded Germans that many of them remained silent when this repression was being unleashed. Most people kept quiet out of fear, the churches also fearfully reillained silent even though synagogues and chuirches serve the same God,' he
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ever the statute of limitations on prosecutions against Nazis expires at years end. The strength of the anti-fascist movement could be gauged by its success in getting the limitation extended.
The threat to the liberals hal been often identified with this BiuridesViachrichterdienst - the Federae Intelligence Service. Its efficiemcy as an intelligence agency is acknowledged, since it ECCLITätely Predicted the Israeli attack i 1967, the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and the oil embargo in 1973.
However it must not be forgotten that this service was headed and staffed by Nazi officers, led by Gen, Gehlen. “The Тогеigп intelligence service was used more ald more for spying at home.
clairls Theo Sommer editor of De Zëff.
Sebastian Cobler claims that there is a deliberate Ca Inբaiքո
through the media to create a feeling of insecurity in order to justify state oppression. Coble accuses the Federal Republic of using psychological terror in the infamous Stammheim Prison wheTe leftists are held incommunicado.
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rench Prime Minister Raymond
Barre's policy of freeing industrial prices and allowing public sector prices to be raised to more "Teallistic” lewels llas caused a 5 Luddel jump in the rate of inflation, reports Financial Tines correspondent Robert Mauther writing from Paris. The French ratic of inflation incra secl Lo 9.7: in the 12 Inonf December 177 Dcember 1978 and is expected to be around 10% in the current year. Meanwhile unemployment is running
at over 1.3 millio Il and the big companies are laying off their workers. For instance, Chrysler
France, the formerly US owned group which Carlle under Control of the PSA Peugeot - Citroen group recently is cutting back production with layoffs at several factories.
In the U. S. A. inflation in 1978 was 9%, which was the worst inflattion rate gxperienced by that col III try since 1945 — 47 with the exception of 1974 When consumer prices spared by over 12%. Food, housing and medical ca. Te Were
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KAMPUCHEA (2)
The politics
by Amara Senanayake
he politico-philosophical strug
gle within the Kampuchean rewolutico II alry movement would hızı ve had a much greater chançe of success if therc had been a ÇTTC theoretical inter well till and guidance on the part of the World communist movement. However, the generalised crisis of World communism following the death of Stalin, the predominance of Ilationalism and petty-bourgeois revisionist de wiations over proletarian internationalism since 1956 effectively precluded the possibility of any such positive ideological guidance on the part of the socialist camp. Indeed, this external context only served to re-inforce the erroneous trends within the Kampuchean revolutionarly movement. This then was the second factor.
The third factor is closely allicd to the second. It is a wellknown fact that almost all the Asia Communist Parties and militant communists throughout the world “oleased to 0 ile sicc" ” that is, towards Peking in the struggle against Krushchewite Wisionism during the early '60's. This included the Wiellancs: Party, which disagreed with Krushchev's treatment of Stalin, his interpretation of peace fill co-existence and his thesis of the peaceful path to socialism'. The Wietila Illesse communist 5 la Wewer parted company with the Chinese C. P. l Idie's CPM). The Wietnamese had gravic misgivings over the Maoist policy of cI listing non-proletarian youth to 'bombard the headquarters' of the CCP. They though L correctly that this quasi-Trotskyist line Would irTeparably da ruage and weke T1 thČ fraternal Chinese party. They also disagreed with the international and donestic policy lines (concerning the Soviet Union a Tid in termål socialist construction respectively) adopted by the CCP in the Cultural Revolution
of the
phase. Of cours EL CLed Character lci crilicis ir Withill the *f:11 point to note : Kau Tıp Lichean rew ship lidopted a
elt stand-point Cultura Revolut queLit trips to P period, the Pol
Khieu Sa:Tıphan elorsed and id: with the selfpositions of th that the Wici correctly as Lultra fic I l tı Luis ull -- My leaders filliliar
of the cultural rcadily recognis marked conflLICI ideological positi held by the Kilr themselves - as
om in this essay.
of somme a pects i Tse-tung thought erlur1ciated durir Revolution was which reinforced of non-proletari:L bourgeois ind th listic ideology wi chean revolutiola
Siha
The fourth fa play following th neutralist Silhelm Cl of the puppet Li milias siye barbaric Kampuchca by L. ra Ty to the asser Trotskyist sects the formation ( possiblic anti-ill p Lco 1 Nol United Tating thic Sihanic was a T impera Kampuche: In re Wol ly recognized a But if the cour they forgot to in ice the guidelines fronts firmly laic

indo — China conflict
e the Wietnamese isticŁl lly, woicing L 24 low key and IIlily' fold. The Lere is that the olutionary leaderc) I pletely differConcerning the ion. Making freeking during this Pot - leng Sary - gTu Warly 2ntified themselves 5:1 1 1 1 e: Lh1 (:OTetica | 2 Chinese party namese rejected -leftsst, unscientifa Txist. As those with the idcology revolution will E, there was a Ce betwceIl th:5e ÜTs ard Lhı: 31e5 I1puchearl leaders lescribed earlier Thus the influence of so-call:d "Mao :" particularly as lg the Cultural he third factor the dominance Il casa nt pettyerefore nationathin the Kampu| ry IIl OvermeI.L.
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сtúг Саme into it oustic of the
k, the installation 1 Nol and the interven tion inio he U. S. Conttions of various hic world over, if the broadest erialist and antiFront, i II corpolikis supporters it iwi which the Lutionaries correctld Ected upon. Se cof doing so ple I11 člt in practconcerning such down half a
century before by the Communist II crnational. The Coulmin terril constantly stressed the Iced for the striclest indepeldence of the Con munist Party_from the other non-com Illunist forces within the United Front in terms of organisation, politics and ideology, Though the Kampuchean revolutionaries wield cd pulitical hegemony and succeeded in relegating Sihanouk to a peripheral position following the victory of 1975, this concealed the fact however that there was a process of ideological osmosis belween the Sihanoukists and the revolutionary forces within the United Front. This further buttressed thic cominant force of Inationalism.
A degrec of clarification is necessary lucre. Marxism-Leninis 11, Lunlike Trotskyisi Tı, does not consider mationalism of every sort as in eluctably opposed to Interiationalism. To the contrary, one of the distinguishing characteristics of some of the most outstanding Marxist leaders has been their ability to raise simultaneously the twin banners of national independence and socialis ill, the capacity Lo creatiwcly syıtlıcsize “traditior and revolution' (as Dr. Nguyen Khao Wien, the Editor of Vietna IIncisc S1 dies, pults it) häls been one of the outstanding achievements of Ho Chi Minh and Le Dua II. Castro, Guevara and the Cuban revolutionary leadership also achicved a masterful synthesis of the twin elements of patriotism (Patria O Muerte) and militant proletarian internationalism (“Crear dos tres muchos Vietna ms!”) Stalin's strategie slogans and mass political line during the period of capitalist encirclement and in particular the Great Patriotic war provides perhaps the
finest cxample of this necessary synthesis.
The Inationalism of thic Pol
Pot-Kheliu Samphan-Ieng led group was however
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completely different class character. lnste-Hd of Hi proletarian patrioList based on a truly Leninist anti-imperialisill, theirs was a nationalisill deeply sourced in the agrarian petty buurgeoisie, whose class stand point they had come to adopt. It would be no exaggeration to characterize their outlook as being olle of narrow chauvinism verging heavily on Xenicophobia.
In true colours
The crrors of their nationalistic political line remained submerged during the period of arried struggle and (as in the case of Yugoslavia) came into full view only after the capture of state and governmental power. The Kampuchean regime took great pains during its first 1 years in office to present itself in its trLIC colours — i, e, as anti imperialist revolutionary nationalists rather thin Marxist-Leninists. The domestic policy statements and foreign policy pronouncements of the Kampuchean government revealed In 0 trace 15 to whether Marxis In in fact provided the analytical methodology and framework of Teference for the new Kampuchean leaders. Khieu Samphan's speech at the 5th Non-aligned Summit Conference held in Colombo in 1975 is a good example. It was reportedly at China's insistence that Pol Pot made a lengthy speech in 1977 asserting the Marxist-Leninist character of his party. In this speech which was republished in the Peking Review (and the Chinese media) and disseminated by Maoist groups the world overt, Pol Pot Acknowledged that their party had been guided by Mao Tse-tung thought. It in List be recalled that the contents of the messages of condolences on the death of Chairman Mao sent by the Kampuchean leaders to the CCP, as well as the message of felicitations sent by them to Hua Kua Feng on his assumption of the post of Chairman also revealed the Kampuc chean leaderships acceptance of "Mao Tse-tung's development of Marxism-Leninism'. Needless to add this contrasted with the stance adopted by Wietnam in the messages it sent on both these occasions.
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The disas trou the Pol Pot g line manifested in the dolestic and ferocity o inflicted on people by the U dented il 1o di air-war il galilst || dis TL 7 Lied normall sille, Li prooted relations but di thing in its impact of the U Kampulchean sok fro II. Lhe destr effect Lilit Ka TI to British cool The strategic b. conducted by the [II] Il Cothig le55 holocaust col cwer lived för breat Inc chean countryside erbuffalo cor lot
Na pälm, white -personal cluster che IIlica le fia
ly on Indo-Chili with a special int chea. Imperialisir yed, but bit beia LI Liful Asian | life shattered the their Water-blfil their paddy fie explosives and L1 proč tě při slit cities ind towns. swell grocs quely
Lrished
No Tic Wille Imagilitude of the problells that KATTI puchea. In revi rship following 1975. There are and incorrect Wa uns cientific way Marxist and um i grappling with til p TobleTm. It ITLI : ir Emil till Collists as fundamentally si their efforts at reconstructio II. N have been sharper the two paths tr lea de Tships in at tempts to gra ppl básically similat problems. Cond

consequences of roup's Lin-Marxist itself very quickly sphere. Thc scale the devi station the Kampucheån . S. was un preceern history. The Kanpuchea totally life in Lhe countrythe old social l mot Create anystead. Thus, the 11ם ח55ioטS - äEgr . :iety was different uctive constructive Mr.X a tributed ia | Tulle il India. Dmbing campaign J. S., Illo Lunted than un leashi Ing a ything that moved, di in the Kamput, be it child, wat
5 flower.
phosphorus, a Inti — bığlılıb. Lits ;ı IId Els Tailed il cessiena for years but fell ensity oI 1 KäIInpLI - il therefkið Te distro
Iothing in this alını d. Their Socialı || ir home 5 fla Leed, lis, polis örned âlıd ds Scorched by
chemicals, the 'y flocked to the Cilsing thell lo
like the belly of child,
iny therefore, the - Scio-ecoloric confrolled the olutionary leadetheir victory of ho We Wer", " correct ys, scientific Lind s, iп a word, Marxist Ways, of e most intrictable it alsti be berne the Wietnamese had to face milat problems in HIון 5L= wair milit10יהם ՞ր է:) IItrast tւյլIlti than that Het Ween aversed by these their respective le with and solve socio-economic itioned by their
ideological positions, the Kampuchea II leaders embarked upon al course of action characterized by 1 t5 text Tele yolu nı tarisil and I CÜılplete disregard for the objective economic laws, which (as Stalin pointed out) exist in the construction of sociallis III. "If you try to overide the objective laws, of development (of any phenomena) ... these objective laws will finally overide you', said General Giap, in a different context. This in fact is what happened to the Pol Pol-leng Sary-Khieu Sanphan group, and an understanding of this holds the key to an assessment of the recent cvents in Kampuchea. The do Il estic policy of the Inow deposed leadership could be best defined as a peasant based radical equalitarianism, which has nothing in common With Marxism-Leninism. It is necessary to dwell at some length on the qualitative difference between the two ideological standpoints, si Ice Colwentional analysis (both Western and local) continually portrays the present struggles in Kampuchea as taking place between "Marxist Policies' or "neighbouring Communist states."
Not Marxist
In point of fact the ideology of the Pol Pot group, was quite simply, not Marxist. Already in the Communist MHпIГеRLO, Marx and Engels had scourged this kind of primitive ut copia In socialis T1 and characterized it as reactionary. because it preached "universal asceticism and social levelling in its crudest form." In his polenic against Herr Eugen Duhring, Engels spent an entire chapter on Ek withering critique of the "radical equalitarian socialism' presented by Duhring in opposition to Marxia socialis III. "*The Teal content of the proletarian demand for equality", said Engels, "is the di cilind for the abolition of classes. Any demand for equality which goes beyond that, of Ilccessity passes into absurdity." Lenin confiri Ined this vigorously: "Engels was a thousand Lines right when he wrote that to conceive equality ni5: Thea ining anything beyond the abolition of classes is a very stupid and absurd prejudice. Bourgeois professors have tried to make use of the coucept of equality to accuse

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us of wanting to make all men equal to one another ..... But (this) claim......is an empty phrase and a stupid invention of intellectuals.' (Lenin's speech too Delegi ing the People with slogans about Liberty and Equality")
Possibly the best known and certainly the Ilost trenchant сгitique of the view such as those held and put into practice by the erstwhile Kampüchean leaders, Was Voiced in 1934 by Joseph Stalin. Refering to the glorification of the agricultural CCP Ill lil LI Ilies, he
said: '... Every Leninist knows, if he is a real Leilinist, that equalization in the sphere of
guifeinents and personal cweryday life, is a reactionary Pelly-bourgeois absurdity worthy of some primitive sect of ascetics, but not of a socialist society organised on Marxist lines, for we cannot CXpect all people to have the same tastes and requirements and all people to mould their personal eweryday |life on the same In Odel...... (Some) people evidently think that socialism calls for equalitation, for le Velling the requirements and ThữTS{}llal everyday iise of members of Society, Needless to say, such an El 55umption has nothing in common with Marxism, with Leninism.........To draw the conclusion... that according to the Marxist plan all should War the same clothes and eat the same dishes in the same quantity, is utter absurdlties and t0 slal Inder Marxism . ... BOLIrgeois Writers are fond of depicting Marxist socialism in the shape of the old Tsarist barracks, where everything is subordinated to the "principles' of equalizatien. But Marxists cannot be held responsible for this ignorance and stupidity.'
Stalin went on to describe this "flirtation with the eqLEalitarian tendencies of agricultural communThes' as "infantile Det ty—bourgeois exercises of 'Leftist blockheads." (Report to the 17th Congress)
Grotesque travesty
It is precisely such an un scientific and vulgar petty-bourgeois e qualitarianism that the Sorbonnecducated intellectuals who were at the helm of the Kampuchean state, attempted to implement at breakneck speed. The result was a grotesque travesly, a caricature
of socialism, the which is too we reCalpi LL lation. T indeed could not Lenin once said t for Marxists to against imperiali but also again. PTHETIL H. LHTLilt A.İldı (lıce were militants among Tevolutionaties. M Whel h c said tht dialectics assert ti 4 - Te Wolutionary Within any party line struggle between the corr line and the inco letarian one. Th in Kampuchea cui uprising against th Wis the yЕПLI I Struggle of the ty two ideologies, na and peasant pettyb Samrin, Su Phim leaders of the nic Peoples Republic Te present Lh5 fought valiantly f ideological line. COIT III:Titrators law new Kampuchean ""A Wiet Ila Ilmese E omitting to mentic failing to realize a ter best use the Fascist regimes o (such as that of E a Te propped up hy and the USA, affe bloodily installed b Intelligence Agency. na's role.
Rapid developm
(CαπτίπIιέκή ή στη issée. Arid afiei a бл the паѓure of"
777 2,5 ! Éhe fourriafed Giy rste movenier stands What it stands for. ses ray be clearly frfly are Seks positively rnay clarity of definition 7'r ffa'r rhirfryri. Sair for Egipt far ecorari a little known retra, "ojectively speaking. ΑξήΤπίσία η απει της ER I'r gare i rore py The leaders of the Ë Parry'”.

human cost of known to Iced 5 did not and unchallenged. it it is necessary ight not only 1 and reaction thosc who e of socialism. :Luch MäTxist le Kampuchean E) WES COTT CIL the laws of -mselves within arty too, and 1 lucre is a Lliw o iz a struggle Act, proletarian TCet, Ilon-proTeCo It Welt 5 mina ting in the | Pol Pot regime :ached by this to lines, of the nely proletarian Courgeois. Heng and the other wly proclaimed of Kampuchea Marxists who or the Correct Some local described the government as Hacked junta", in, or perhaps that junta" is i to describe f Latin America "innchet), which West Germany having been y the Central NEXT: Wiet
hent . . .
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THE PFA Y OLT FOR THETAMIL SPEAKING PEOPLE by V. Karalaтілgharн (Ілгегыatioла! Риђїїл/iers, Rs... ).
M: Kara la singham has rendercid a great sic Twice by reprinting in this book his 1963 booklet on the Tamil question, together With a postcript added in 1977, as well as several articles on Icated themes written over the intc. Wening years. Taken logether, these Writings constitute an illumina ting docLL I'ment for al study of thc role played by the Old Left in helping to bring us to the present dangerous and tragic inpasse on the national question in Sri Lanka. The fact that Mr. Karalasingham does his best to minimise the responsibility of the Old Left, and of the LSSP in particular, for this situation does not diminish the historical value of his book but rather en hances it.
When the original of The Way Out for Ihe Tarnil Speaking People appeared, the LSSP had entered the United Left Front of that day, which included the MEP aliud CP. This political context explairls a peculiar con radiction Which is eviden in Mr. Karalisinghal III’s 1963 text. The greater part of the original booklet is an able and cogent exposition of What had been till then the LSSP's traditional position on the Tamil question, a convincing demonstration of the sterility of the Federal Party's policies and program mes as al III a Ilıswet to the problems of the Tamil people, and a persuasive analysis of the social basis of botlı Sinhala and Talilil Tacialistil.
However, at the point of time at which Mr. Karala sighini was writing, the LSSP had already compromixed its earlier inflexibility on the Tamil question in the interests of an alliance with the MEP by accepting a joint prograinine con language and Citizenship Which,
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as Mr. Kirills ill his 1963 "represent thic tr position.' Hence I Ilchioned - singham's theori didn't preventh bing, though in uneasiness, to a action that can beginning of the to racialist.
At that point o lasinghail foresa of die velopment. in the proces of LJ LF, the MEP tic) wards al Illino socialist position sial questions. TO Te Llifa You Irab that the non-pro Ward elements Would pressurisc of increasing cont
“This erforser Karalasingha T i avoided only if Working class a lind if the la Lite the Tallil speaki L heir Weight beh Partics. Il is on that they rally b that they would b. lize the reacti pressures and CC -CP-MEP Pill carry out the p and to get the its self imposed remain aloof from ment, and speci the LSSP, what effect e 15 L1re i5 itself is but a pri ä5 fåT 35 till:İT concerned."
These words, I charged with a hii which Mr. Kara entirely oblivious post cript hc act LI: passage to dcIlho

rgotten)
admitted idoklet, did not aditional Marxist the contradiction tillät MT. Kara lctical consistency ill frol subscriIt Without so Ille ractical course of Ilow be seen as the LSSP"S SUlrГЕНdgг
ingham
f time, Mr. Karatwo possibilities The first was that evolution of the itself would move "e thoroughgoing on the controverThe Second, and le possibility, Was letarian and backwithin the bloc it in thc direction promises.
IEFI (Wrote Mr. In 1963) can be he forces of the ld the minorities, 3r, in particular 11 g people, throw lind the Marxist ly to the extet e lind the LSSP e a ble to le Lutralonary opposing impel the LSSP Tentary bloc to TOIThi5.ed refOTIls bloc to go beyond limits. If they the new regroupfically this means they would in that the LSSP SJ ner in the blac: dellards a Te
cad in 1979), arc storical irony of
lasinghorn seems II || || 977 lly quo Les this 1st Tate his own
yesterdays
prophetic insight Trille, he coicedes, the ULF broke up, and the LSSP together with the CP cntered a new front led by the SLFP, but an SLFP which had 'jettisoned its then Right wing led by C.P. de Silva' and was therefore "refurbished". In all fundarietals, therefore," continues Mr. Karalasinghan, the United Front of the SLFP— LSSP-CP Whiteh bi fr clectoral support at the general elections of May 1970 rcpresented in the Imain the sa lle class forces
as the front of the LSSP, CP, MEP.” But what followed"? TE Tamil people didn't heed Mr. Karala singha III’s advice to the II,
they "stayed aloof from the Front, indeed rejected it in no uncertain terms, and the worst fears expresSed in the above quoted passage Were realised." (1977 postcript)
MT Karalasinghomos simple equal tio betwecin the ULF OT 1963 and the Coalition of 1964 and after is disingenuous. Dominated though the MEP was by petit bourgeois elements, it can scarcely be characterised (even "in a fundamentals' or "in the main") in the same terms as the SLFP, which was in every sense a bourgeois party with a bourgeois leadership, serving bourgeois interests. (One thought that the LSSP had discovered this fact belatedly after the rude shock they had in 1975, but apparently not.) Moreover, the Weight of the Working class, as well as of the LSSP, in the ULF of that time, was much greater than their corresponding position in the later coalition, where indeed the LSSP and its Working-class following Were "prisoners', though willing and self - Tina na cled. (It is no accident that Mr. Karalasingham speaks of the LSSP-CP-MEP Ec" but of the "SLFP-LSSP-CP' front: note the order.)
It will also be noted that in equating the 1963 ULF with the

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SLFP-led coalition, Mr. Karalasingham refers in the later case tu the front "Which bid für electoral support at the general elections of May 1970'. Why doesn't Mr. Karalasingham refer to the general elections of 1965? The jettisoning and "refurbishing that Mr. Karalasinghom talks about had already taken place Within the SLFP before the 1965 elections, which the same front fought as a coalition in power. (I must add, however, that it is curious to find Mr. KELTE lasingham saying that the SLFP jettisoned the C. P. de Silva Wing, when what happened was just the reverse.)
But it is all too apparent why Mr. Kara la singham passes over 1965 in silence. The fact is that in 1965 hic Wasn't there in the coalition with the "refurbished SLFP. Though in 1963 he had becn Willing to remain in a LSSP bloc with the MEP, even at the cost of compromises on the Tamil question, he had quit the party in 1964 when the LSSP joined the SLFP-led coalitlon, thus rejecting the equation between the two fronts which he asserts today!
Indeed, when Mr. Karalasingham now reproaches the Tamil people with failure to support the SLFP -LSSP-CP coalition and attempts to shufTle off on thern the responsibility for the LSSP's total surrender to racialisII after 1964. the Tamil people are entitled to retort that, a fict all, they took a les son from Mr. Kara la singham's
own actions in 1964 when he rejected the coalition! And they remained consistent when they
opposed the coalition in 1970, though Mr. Kiralasinghall had by then changed his mind and returned to the fold. Who was Wiser - the prodigal son who departed in 1964 or the repentant prodigal who came back before 1970? The "refurbished SLFP which had "jettisoned its then right wing proved quite capable of engendering another right Wing and morc C. P. de Silvas Trom its own womb - as the LSSP cant to its cost in 1975.
"The Tamil people stayed aloof from the Front, indeed rejected it in no un certain tcrims. What did Mr. Karalasingham expect? Is he Lina Ware of the disillusion ment and
bitter less with W, and non-racialist the capitulation
CP (wholl they one of the few
against racialism to "Sinhala only
Taintain that rallied with crie front which he hir
What of the as Old Left, in oppo between 1964 and question. The RKaralasi I1gh a m g unpleasant Teality in his 1977 pos that could be sai some question or hawe yielded to Sinihala connmur only for the countervailing pre Ilmassics was sing the anti-imperia style testion art hawe yielded.' W and mealy-mouth is the ugliness depths to which CP descended on and in the Janual against the lang of the Dudley Se Iment, their fa guarantees for th Tamil people in tution, and the the armed repres during the perio Front governmen Llis Mr Karala the Tamist “You us, so wic had to of the racialists." logic
However, to di Tigham justice, unwittingly prov cogen t argument It appears on thic form of a Ferdinand LaSall
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Bloomsbury man as
by Alan Hodge
Leonard Woolf: A Political
Biography. By Duncan Wilson, GCM G, Hogarth Press, É95,
??? pages.
eonard Woolf cntered Trinity
College, Cambridge, from St. Paul's in 1899 at the age of 19 and lived for another 70 yeers. His father was a successful barrister who died when Woof Was aged 11, leaving the family conpartively poor, But this did not dcer theil.
His biographer remarks of Leo nard Woolf that hic rcceived the mandatin education' of the title in Greek and Latin, but went on at Cambripge to join the circle of the "Apostles" and to benefit from the ethical philosophy of G. E. Moore which seemed to him to reveal the nature of "truth alıd reality' and of the human being's immediate duiies" Perhap5 there was something mandarin about Moore, though his Principiau Ethica still had their attractions to later students in the 1920s and 30s.
Woolf detached himself from the original Jewish faith of his family and in religious matters LLLLaLaLLLL C aLHHHHHLLLLLLL SS ELLLLHa LLL what hic considered to be Athletnian principles. This divergence did not affect his political thought, with which Sri Dunca Ti Wilson is mainly concerned in this volume. Woolf became an adept of Copa TLmership, self-determination, international cooperation, disa Tmament,
and radical but gradual world adwaith Cite.
This was after he had spent
seven years as an industrious administrator in Cey Ion where he became highly conscious of the defects of imperialism. He returned to England in 1911; resigned from the Colonial Service and married Wirginia Stephen, Whose family hc had met at Cambridge. He had already written two novels, but gave up fiction after his wife devoted herself to it.
Virginia Woolf figures. Very seldom in the pages of Sri Dun
1S
call Wilson's bū history of the founded by boll has devoted hi writings on inte
A5. El journal State:smal T L Tid, The Political attracted the at and Beatrict W had Fabian sy I never a få natic: Wirginia Woolf in 19 15 tal L thicit claws fixed Actually, he ne' the Webbs did Bolshe wis II, th, willa Li seemed its he had been at TOW Wilson's i sceptical of its the Treaty of W
Because of hi to devise solic пational relatio nt a[lotherטprev on the scal c | bega me an a dhe of Natioisä El Na Lions” LI JIllico II, W CIL to je 1 EWE first-hand expe He becarle convi
'77 -
(AFTER '77 ?
Published bij C Fellowship — Pri.
his booklet p
by the C Fellowship conta released by that af er the genera 1977. T|le first 20th August 197 happend iп т0771 dded | 1 th Nowell “Far Eure Perspecti therefore be asse their theoretical con their capacit test of time.
Although Ճո: space of ti TC i

a political animal
ok, nor does the
Hogarth Press, h the Woolf's; hic itself to Wilf's irrational politics.
ist on the New |ater II editor of Quarterly, Woolf tellion of Sidney W. H. self In pathies, but was devotee, though Wrote about him
Wis a into his elt rails.' e succumbed as to a Worship of ιιιgh he a PPταντίl virtus likewise. tracted by Wooddel is m. but Wils Tes Llts is 5 cel il "ETSi Le5.
5 | Eludable desire system of inter15 that w011 Ld Uitbreak of WAT 1914-18 Wolf rem L of the League the League of though he lewer Because of his rience in Ceylon, Iced that the eld
of empires, as they then existed, was a supreme cause for Linell of goodwill.
During the years between the two World Wars, and afterwards, he wrote much about the need to liberate Africa from its European rulers. The portrait of him on the cover of this volume by T. Ritchie shows a Ilıman of in circa sing anxiety. Apart from his personal troubles, perhaps hic Was a wa IC that the effects of colonial lib craltion, even when he died nine years ago, have not always been so enlightening as he had hoped.
Before het beCame Master of Corpus Christi, Cambridge, Sir Duncan Wilson served in the
Diplomatic service in Berlin, Belgrade, Peking and Moscow. Naturally his book is concerned with the importance of meetings. discussions, official papers and the phгasiпg of agreements and divergences in international affairs. Certainly this was a principal concern of Woolf himself during much of his life. But the five rather Wawering volumes of his autobiography suggest a Timore congenial man than the moralising theoris Who cInerges froIII, these pages.
A Christian view
(77ಆ ಆಲ್ಲ?) ristirar l-orkers' ರೆ: Rs.F|-
Lublished i Ti Sinhala "Frisia F Jarkers" ins Ivo documents
association soon election of July
document, dated 7, en Littled, “PWYr ar '' aid the second mber 1977, entitled, e Tisso cal 55ed In tot only on | Ticits but also y to withstand the
year is a short In the an Tills of a
country's history, it can at times prove or disprove a major premist of El theoretical formulation, particularly when events move fast. The fundamental premise in these documents appcarto be that the respoilsibility for total defeat of the Left in the last general election as well as its future victory would depend on the old Left. The authors of these documents have tried to lake this contradition invisible by "explaiining" that the "old" left is responsible merely for Incot being ble to utilise their united front tactic for the benefit of the working class and the broad IIlasses. But the massacre of 1971, the breaking of
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Cinema
“Ahasin Polovata” : L
by U. Karunatilake
(Chernis by professon, Mfr. Karnasflake
is a Sharr s vry hyrifer aral puer )
Lutiative in a revolution shifts between two foci of power, Lhe power of the oppressed erupting in a bid to eliminate social exploitation as against the power of an ambitious substratum of society seeking merely to enter the preserves of the privileged.
If Sinhala cinema has ever had a social III essage it is of the latter type. Thus “Ahasin polovata panders to the ambition of the professional class to "arrive' via the drawing rooms (and the beds) of the land owning gentry. In doing so, it also panders to the candidacy of other strata to enter the professional class. This is the 'social revolution' that the Sinhala cincma serves up in various II lixes again and again.
The story opens with tho doctor, Sarath, suffering from non-assimilion into the class from which he married. The boorishness of the Ceylonese professional class has destroyed a sensitive young Woll:111 nurtured in the best Colonial tradition of playing the piano in the drawing room and day drearning a nongst the flowers in her garden. The tending of the garden is done by shirtless oncs who drift around as though from another world). Thc docter, inscnsitive to all romance fails to remember the tune played on the day of their first meeting, their first dance, or the white roses gathered in the colonial garden,
With such un forgiwable lapses he keeps qualifying for his final expulsion from the world which his young wife Wineet ha has dreannt up for herself. The expulsion is complete though not openly expressed, after his clumsy handling of the subject of Wineet ha’s girlhood affair with a cousin Ilow dead. There are Such in Limerous flashbacks in the film that past and present get physically kneaded into a
Sugary continuu beings wallow a transports of se and decidedly u un redec Ined by shots of the lu landscape. I thin original story ht down obvious se certail Luc Tse Thess a in the dialogue the doctor, Sari thing in such tone that the di any understatem tries to compen: going through t IIIOIOLOIOLIS SCO 1 on his face.
The doctor is rejected by his she makes no at to life following; birth. Sarath his own words 'M ing from serious to survive." They life because of T Wine etha"s calı5e sh no endeavour to made up her mit This was. Sa Tath's | of the truth, I'm o realisation that h with his own ins withd Tawa L in to h and her death prec of Sarath's psych the social class married.
The tale, shorn is the story of the class from expelled himself. under psycholog of his exile he the new rich mid of his own s TI is a bly charact aunt (Rukrani his patients. One flaws in the film age and manneri effortlessly portr

ife at
II) where human Toll ind in shallow intinent, self pity nkandyan living, Lester's classical IX. Luria. Il L. Kandyan k the aut Hic of the is tried to play In timentality by a indi u Indersta tement but un fortunately alh, ut ters everya uniformly flat amatic impact of El L is lost. He ate for this by he film with a wl of self pity
5 so completely Woung wife that Lempet to return a This håp in childrealises this. In lost people sufferillness struggle come back to nedical skill. In ! made absolutely live. She had it." Fil:List bitter glimpse re bitter than the - had killed her 2nsitiveness. Her !rself, her silence pitate the trauma ic expulsion from n to which he had
if its flashbacks. a rath's return to Which he had
For some years Cal compulsion tlapses amongst le class vulgarity Elını. This class; rised by his levi) and two of
of the major Is that the langums of this class yed by these
the top
three actresses appears to have infected all the other characters in the film as wci, With perhaps the exception of Wineetha, they all articulate in a language which jars painfully in the Udarata Setting.
So, after the doctor's relapse into his own class, during which period he assists in delivегіпg, an illegitimate baby (womeni labour, childbirths, Weddings and funerals flash across the Sinhala screen in true Samsaric scquence) he drifts back towards 'biina" in the same family, into the possibly TITI OTC Carthy Arms of a lively younger sister.
From the ahasa of Wineetha to the
polova of the younger sister the unimaginative doctor vacillates slowly and surely back to roost among the status symbols, of his new rung in the social ladder, much perhaps to the delight of Cine Iulia audience and the box office Inc.
There is a different polova that has almost been Completely left out in this film - the polova of Emanis, the shirtless one, who flaps around like an animated article of furniture from a mudhu. He Wanders through the gгіпп vulgarity of the doctor's home like a being from a different WOTld.
But this world comes suddenly alive in Lester's last S.C.L.C. where the enduring classical |im로 of a Kandyan devale Illerg: Jike the startling little village temple in Puran-Appu. Confronted by this glin pse of a world that oli. peasants fought for and laid down their lives we ask ourselves: is it not a great tragedy that their revolts, including that of 1971, have only helped to consolidate the social classes that strut around in "Aha sin Polowata" ?

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People Wriggin's
Dr. Howard Wriggins, Columbia Professor - turned- all bassador is, Working on a new book on Sri Lanka. Academic circles are still not certain whether Dr. Wriggins will up-date his authoritative study Ceylor-Dilem rria for a new Nation', or embark on an entirely new work covering the post-1960 years. Recently Wriggins co-autho Ted “Reducing global ire Itali ries”, a book which received kindly attention and generous space from 'Ceylon Daily News' and a 'special
correspondent'– Lake House journalists say it was a very special correspondent.
Baptising Satan
Sri Lanka politics has always had an abundance of those Who Flit from party to party. But politicians who hop from church to church are a Tarity. Felix Dias Bandaranaike, whom left leader Dr. N. M. Perera christened as Satan, las been doing just that since the last election. Finally however, he has got himself baptised at the Bethany Prayer Centre, the church of former supreme court justice Malcolm Perera. Malcolm Petera was appointed to the supreme court by the Bandaranaike goverIIc. Of Which Felix Dias Wils Minister of Justice.
Pope's misgivings
Inspite of the fact he comes from Poland, or perhaps because of that, the new Pope, John Paul II has expressed misgivings about a "theology of liberation' that places a premium on political and social enhancipation. The Pope just concluded a very successful visit to Latin Allerica,
Meanwhile, Amnesty International has appealed to the Third General Conference of Latin American Catholic Bishops, taking place in Mexico to inter wene il cases of political imprison ment, tot Lure, disappearances and killings throughout Lhe continen L.
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FIFL &
People whi
Amnesty Inter T at least 17,000 were being held in prisons and dete. that a minimum had disappeared assassinated for Լhr(ծughout the the last decade.
""The systema arbitrary detentic toll. It has exact 11: till:15 lis la and disabled Els : and cruel treat II) fillilies have be left destitute,' s
John Paul on
In this cont Welcoiled the human rights statement of Hi John Paul II o the 30 AI Uniwersal Decla: Rights. The Po against "the use psychological to against prison dissenters' and "sequestration" political reaso I kidnapping for II Ilhatically attack the social fabric
 

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lational said that political prisoners 1. Latin Allerican liom cel tres :: Ilid of 30,000 people or had beel
political reasons continent during
tic practice of l, abduction and led an appalling ve been disfigured result of arbitrary
en L. ITILITmereble ten split up or aid Al.
Human Rights
ext, Al said it ciri ili itment t) :xpressed in the 5 Holiness Pope the occasion of iversary of the ration of HLIIImal pe has spoken out of physical and rture perpetrated ers or political las said that the of persoIls for is and acts of ateriaga in "drafamily life and
In a document which it has circulated to all bishops who will be attending the conference, AI said that "in some cases, locs.l priests, ecclesiastical authorities and lay organizations hawe become the only voice left to speak on behalf of those who are unjustly imprisoned, the victims of torture and the families of those who have disappeared or died.'
Church remains silent
This work of the Church, which has been jeopardized im many instances by reprisals and by political slander, has succeeded in sawing liwes and in exposing grawe violations of human rights Which other Wise Would Ilo llave come to light,' said A.I. Howevcr, it some countries, the Church hierarchy has sadly renaincd inexplicably silent."
** II Latin America,"" AI Said, the abuse of emergency legislation, the proliferation of para military organizations for whose actions governments refuse to acknowledge responsibility and even, in some cases, the justification of Violencic in the name of the values of Christian civilization, Inock the very principles which governments recognize and, in theory, are pledged to protect.'
Occupational hazards
The Internitional Press Institute in its press freedom review notes that journalism is fast becoming one of the world's riskiest professions. Over a period of twelvic months journalists wers kidnapped in six countries, bombed in six others, murdered in another six, tortured and assaulted in eight nations and detained in II orc than twenty-five.
The IPI has called for ""an urgent international initiative to win immunity for journalists from assault and extra-judicial deten tio 1. Immunity for journalists is not a political matter. It is an urgent matter of human and civil rights."
(Carlied dari Page r)

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Satire
A home - run on
by Dr. Caustic da Soda
propos of Chintaka's well
deserved strictures in your issue of 1st January on the depressing performance of the Dharmishta bureaucracy of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (both uniformed and plain-clothed) in coping with the social and economic crises in the aftermath of the cyclone (to offset Which a 20% surcharge on income tax has now been announced), perhaps he will concede that a silver lining in the cloud has appeared with the news item in the 'Ceylon Daily News of January 29 of the experimcnts the Coconut Research Institute has been conducting on the social benefits of the vast acies of fallen and decapitated coconut trunks. It is an ill wind that blows nobody any good, and the back-room boys in the CRI have become the toast of the nation, with the reported discovery that "high quality police batons and baseball bats can be turned out with matured coconut timber from the cyclone affected areas' Appropriate technology has received a Welcome boost to its withering arm. and Professor Chandra Wickreme singhe will have to think again about the long-term fruits of fundamental research.
The possibilities of a home-grown industry serving the interests of a sport, hither to unknown in the island, boggle the imagination of this ruminant at cast. An US AID mission could be requested to set up the infrastructure of this new gaine (with or without tied or untied aid from the IMF or a related agency) and to supply a team of experts to promote its island-wide popularity. A new Ministry could arise at the dгор of a baseball bat, and another malingering or frustrated backbencher 5 othed with the blessings of office. The Woice of America Would reach out with the Persigtency of liquid gravel to the Temotest hamlet in the Wanni,
El Ild thic Bandar the Habara duwa forgetting the Ch Would be a sem T. W. Screens,
Lanka. More 0 Lit of loca | Ea CXcited custorner. their guins as H Scts the Brookly
With a sizzling
All this would und BוIfחםti IIl for Cricket in S Trotskyite spons into a renewed vity at its long. stor med by i "flannelled fools". Tational Cricket ( rellIctantly, wo long-suffering app bership of its ex Tesling competi: Wielders of the And the plebeian to the SLBC op. Wavelength to ap from Point Per Head, and Up un licenced) will E quito Luis hy - word sitorised househol CRI scientist Will the cover of Trire the Year' before It is if does not quite II boundary in ac American baseball apping up every fashion, and a new export Will come (in the FTZ or
CIT1 s are los ing hi seball Hits heit Conceal or o sim ciable quantities, CI Werted to Lic s til gas of yiti Iminis milk, and the Ori Life be cultivated ya WFI ing trade indigent. Third W Thc benefit to Eas

he cyclone
wela Red Sox,
Yankees (not 1 kala di Dodgers) ation on future lot only in Sri
ains will dirajlı :b Lill bats, and will choke on
nk. Vannit amby Stadium alight OI11e I"Ll I 1!
inevitably lead ard of Control i Lanka (under orship or not) splurge of actitenia Inted crease, ale hordes of ald the Interonference, albeit ld accept that lication for minaltcd tL1 rf. The it between the patrician willow coconut will lead Pning yet another pease sports fans lo to Dondra inli (licenced or recome an ubiin every trand. That unknown no doubt, make 15 *“Malm of this century is enhowc scenario lake it to the tual play, the circuit will be bat WC canı non-traditional in tin its own litsite) now that their lustreng difficult to ag le in appreWe can all he Luperior advandi soya bean iental Tree of to close the dcficits cof a T1 World country. it-West Cllllt u rial
TW is "č7 s 7 Meffer Fer T fico Fe L G by a reader in Kaidy. In view of its length and Style we ha ve Frade it irro ar light colli 177777.
exchange and mutual understanding are staggering to contemplate, While the Agrarian Research and Training Institute will need to concentrate on 'diamonds and not "triangles' in their pursuit of the L[] [[]IlLll,
As for those police batons,
crowd control will be a push ower, angry commuters can be l'aid to rest, industrial un rest curbed in a flurry of matured coconut Wood, and the slightest symptoms of agitation and protest brought to heel by a swift, well
orchestrated, and controlled display of Batticaloa timber in the correct hands. The impact on
firm and efficient government
will be nothing short of cyclonic.
Last, but not least, since a police truncheon resembles a baseball bat, or can be made to do so
bet ter through a further application of native genius at the
CRI, the problems of short supply
or replacements in either sport
are rende ed ininimal.
People . . .
( Сонгiпшеd fronл page 80) History's V. 1. Ps
Michael Hart has come up with a hook that is different. It lists the 100 most influential men in history, First place is held by the Prophet Mohanned. Christial influence is diwidcol between Christi TIli kecil ILLITmber 3 and St. Paul Tankcid (5th. Isaac Newton the scientist has second place and Johann Gutenberg, the inventor of printing (in the West), eighth place, Gautalla Buddha and Confucius are Tanked fill T : Tid fi We. Columbus and Einstein ninc and ten. And Karl Marx number cleven.

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Science
est Tube :
by Harin Watson
second
thickels.
MS with his obsessive desire to disco Wer, in Inovate a Tid create, stands today on the edge of a new world. A World in which he will unwittingly be forced to take his place alongside the very products Elf his own Imaking-LEle results of his endeavours in science and technology. No longer Will life be confined to the mysteries of conception followed by embryonic growth within the human body, Tesuling in the birth of a new being. He could well become a Ina n-Produced-item off a production line – Man the Inachine, not MaIn the ilIllortal.
Why do we say this?
(1) With the cracking of the genetic code by Dr. Francis Crick I TOT. JElles T). Watso I in 1912, lar has gained new in roads into the understinding of the Sub5t: Icc Withi 1 il tiri deiermiles his physical make-up, his characteristics, etc.
(2) With the birth of the test tube baby, a 5 lb 12 oz. baby girl to Mrs. Lesley Brown of Oldham, England, it is now possible for conception (the beginning of a new life) to Lake place in a laborat Öry. A Tid so on not only conceptico II but the growth of this fertilised egg to the point when it be coi les a hul T1:n life too, could very well take place outside the human body.
When we put the two together, we sice Lihat in the future, IE only ca. Il man—as you a Tid I know him-be produced in a laboratory, it could also bc possible to tamper with the embryo so as to produce a specific type of human, according to our needs; to pre
2.
The thi
Questions of selective breeding, genetic engi Surrogate Parents have come up again in the w successful test-tube-baby, this time in more and more parents around the World claim fertilisation through in vitro fertilisation,
thը
determine his ph make up so that
behaviour could b In fact this seems of many leadings logists of our ting
Dr. Francis C. lecture titled Why given in St. Lou that genetic engin used to produce t We WOL || Like LC) restrict the popule with certail grou Per Inited to hav, While other Eite Te:
All of this is basic belief that unique and defit
El Wesome powers soul, but rather chemic Lil machi II
combined with results in his at and actions. If tlh: i 1 Lerests of be Liter II e It CF f il Would Ilot 5c. ап elite or selec World authority, t Illa ke-up as well the total popula
But wherei Could this listico his amazing pov and ei IC3 til b. than a che Ilica as a machie

rd parent
neering and wake of the |dia. A5 Lurt to hawe controwersy
ysical and IncIntal his a t titul de 5 aid ie what We decide. to be the thinking cientists and bio
rick himself, in a " I Study Biology is in 1971, states eering Light to be he type of people
hawe ad also to ti of the virl is of people being ć IIlor E. childréIl stricted.
a result of the Tha T is not a lite creation, with of mind and a complex bio: whose make-up, his envirollent, titudes, beh Elwio Lur this were so, in The Twiv and It lire generations, 'm improper for t group like some 3 de Lermine man's
a S. Lo contro LiII.
lies the truth" lishing being with wers of intellect e nothing more mass functioning is this the man
productive tract he sacrostrict 2
- Dr. Di Ina DaentI.
Professor of Pediatrics, University
of Califo Ti.
Tere's a real Irra y le that the Church sees is a stake | here, we are rior obliged to solve | probl'ens by sacrificing human
μαιες.
Why should the ferra le re
- Rey Francis Felice
Professor of Biology, University of San Francisco.
Scierce 1s 'il becorri Territore arTid F72 ore The "Third parer t” ir concep - rior 7. Do 14'e War II (o bring a rhird and perhaps domineering parent irr"refor.
- Ms. Oleh Th Streeter Bioethicist,
Berkeley University.
whom you and I know, laughing crying, playing, Working, talking, thinking, loving, hating, pleasing, hurting, dreaming, discovering...?
The arls wer lies in an ancient document of history called the Bible, dating back many thousands of years. In Genesis Chapter 1:27 it says: So God created man in His own image, in the
image of God. He created him: inale and female. He created tillic II.
Made in the image of the Creator of all things, we naturally reflect some of His awesome powers, yet by shutting Him out of our lives we devote ourselves Lo a II leaningless eXistence, reducing ours clves to more machines.

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Education
The politics of hi
education
by Sunil Bastian
erhaps the best description of Po# ideal University in the liberal bourgeois democratic tradition can be found in Herman Hesse's Nobel Prize winning novel,
"The Glass Bead game,. In his Castallia, Hesse brings out an ideal in the European tradition:
of di place where all filcilitics are: provided for those capable to carry out research and study in any branch of knowledge, however irrelevant or narrow may be the problem to the situation in the society at large or however conflicting it may be to the officially existing ideologies. May be the 19th century German Universities came closest to these ideals in Teal history.
The bourgeois democracy always puts forward as one of its inherent properties the concept of "Academic freedom and the institution called the "Autonomous University'.
These ideas imply that in a democratic society we ought to have independent organisations pursuing the goal of acquiring knowledge and understanding
world. Also that everything should be done to make these activities as free as possible from all constraints and controls. Bourgeois democracy in this way tries to cover the link between the higher educational institutes and the socio-economic system of the society. But history is unravelling to LIs these connections more and more and therefore laying bare the true nature of higher education, To my mind this type of an approach will give us a guide to understand what is happening in our higher education today and also the significance of legislations like the new Higher Educational Bill. My task in this article is to demonstrate the political aspect
of higher educa geois ideology t in order to con cities of Sri L attempt.
Unveiling of of higher educ about due to ty in to play in the history. One wa of the cII piricis abstract mathem a prime пover || trial, scientific a revolutiւյII պիլյge LIS A Te free Cf. tion of the so of the stul det the spread of W Els the second factor converted 10 El productive fore an element no longer could ig brought into th proble of the demanding from either to face ojectively in the These changes in: from which the the idea of the became linked wi
Knowledge as a
No state today lo|ping theit scie the productive fo and technology. with the need PO wer, 5cience become the life Stille, Teef crease expenditu a Tici development to Chi I institutes and hig institul Tes is felt i Society. Those in these aims in va

gher
ion, which bour ties to cover up" e to thic specifiinka at a later
the true nature ti häd COne to factors coming twentieth century
the integration : practices with tics, which Was
behind the indusind technological impact none of The L Ta In sfoT millcial composition population with higher cducation factor. The first knowledge itself force, and the rewhich the rulers no Te. The second e campuscs the society at large the university the or to be Teactionary Cal T1 p. arked the point justification of University itself th politics.
broductive force
keem on devetits can ignore rce in science When coupled for mainlaining and technology blood of any he need to - Te min Teschrch and the need guide research !ler educational In any Ilder. In power achieve "iou 5 Ways, Inay
be by direct control as in the case of Sri Lanka or by indirect financial contro Higher educational institutics are expected to produce the skills necessary to Iun thro industries and to Work the fields. If they could train the skilled man-power in such a way so that they'll ca II y on their tasks as scientists, engineers, economists or administrators with put questioning the social framework in which they work or the social implications of their activities the training system can be satisfied that they have done a good job. In fact the entire higher educational program can be planned with these objectives in view, thus revealing to us the direct political implications of higher cducation. Students will be kept busy and their programmes narrowed so as to produce the 'speacialized idiot' who can be used to run the system. Secondly the subject matter itself can be geared for the same purpose. The syllabus content, the topics chosen for research will reflect these trends. Today in actual fact some of the social sciences had turned out to be mere na nagement sciences helping the capitalist system to face the crises or providing the techniques to keep the workers under control either through "persuasion' or coercion. The natural sciences are give in such way to produce the blind specialist. Therefore we see politics in the very core of higher education.
NEXT: Social composition
Cyclone and . . .
(Солtiлшеd froлл радуе 7)
formation of such People's Movements while inviting all kinds of donations for relief work.
The statement has over 80 signatories of whom about 50 belong to warious organisations. Am Cong the In are : Wen Ahangi ma Dhammara Tna, Bishop Leon Nama yakkara, Dr S. Sinnatamby. Dr Nalin Silva, Nanda Ellin Wela, Dimesh Gunawa Tdene, G mihi Yapa, Mahinda Wijesekara, Waslu dewa Nanayakkara, L. A riya wa Insa, N. Sha TTN ugat ha 5a Ilı, Nimalka Fernando And Halim Deen.
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letters . . .
(Cariried froy Page :)
has strayed very far from the issue posed by my review of Dr. Colvin R. de Silva's pamphlet which began the whole thingi. e. its author's political morality in Writing it. Before leaving the new contenders to fight it out, I should like to deal with a few points raised by Dr. Carlo FonSeka"; last Cori tribution.
Dr. Fonseka's apologia for the horrors of 1971 by reference to the deaths of policemen reminds me of those who used to say. in answer to protests against American atrocities in Wietnam, 'But the Vietcong also committed atriccities!" Orne doesn't (at least, not if one has any pretensions to being considered a socialist) equate the violence of the oppressors with the violence of the oppressed (even when the latter
is ill-conceived, ill-timed or illdirected). However, those who attacked police stations at least
knew they were courting death. What possible excuse can Dr. Fon. seka find for the killing, rape and torture of unknown numbers of young men and Women for no crime other than that of attending a few classes of the JVPor, in many cases, for no association with it at all? Or for the actions of his present friends, the leaders of the Old Left, in helping to create the atmosphere which made these abominations possible by crying "No mercy!" on the radio, and (as I know from personal experience) justifying the carnage and the brutality while they were on.
Dr. Fonseka attributes to me a share of responsibility for the murderous outcome of coalition politics in so far as sympathised with those politics between May 1970 and April 1971. I am ready to accept that degree of responsibility - which I share with many lakhs of voters I don't condone my error in putting my faith. In the coalition before April 1971, though I have expiated my guilt by joining in protests against the repression there after and by doing what was within my power to help its victims, both collectively and individually. What Dr.
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Fonseki has to having joined hi of the repressio himself today to the yery men W it, and who s Tii were opposed t (including i hii T. agents. "After what forgivenes: has been gracio pliment me on am sorry that, stances, I can't
TT TIL,
Re
Remembered
(Carine.
Metals and ens dent, and y CILI sociallisril by I through racialist
Those who si the past are do Neiller Mr. Kar party has siste critically, their I between 1963 a la tiola questi questions. There guarantee that, g set of political will not repeat of their pist. I la singlu: m h. Els in advance the
His, sice the as it Le coi fi justice) in the in the ULF Cf | FrII f 1654
'77 - A Chri
(Carr i'r grad
strikes and the deinocratic righ ged state of en other things, g. Cold IcT i Sri L. Täs 5 Il Vic TCT I into a united if of the bourgeoisi
The analysis let presupposes : left in the ful outside parlia II ni naturally follow ulie the jlld let thic parlia in cita it could low

explain is how, imself in criticism n, he can bring embrace some of rho were behind aired those who o the repression and me) as CIA such knowledge, ?" Dr. Fonseka -וחugh to CGסחJ5 e my sensitivity.
in the circumreturn the compli
ggie Siriwardena
fig' ds are inter depencall Immut gett ID
making a detour
til to learn from oned to repeat it. alasingham nor his d, honestly and olicies and actions in 1977 - on the on n5 on other is, therefore, no iven the appropriate conjunctures, they the woTsit fic: LILI Tes ndeed, Mr. Kara - ready provided justification for Tamil people hawe idence (ald with JLF of today as 96 or the United 1977.
stian , . .
Wira fri page Foo) uppression of basic is under a prol) Il1ergency, el II Cong5L to prove that the amika bet Tayed the
When it entered Tout with a Section
.
given in this bookTajor role for the ture class struggles Ent. It citoyes. Il fit that simply becawas wiped out of ry Scene in 1977, }lay a leading role
in the struggles outside parliament. The “postponed" tok Cn generall strike of 28th September 1978 proved beyond doubt that even if the old left wishes to utilise the class struggle for their future parliamentary ends they call not possibly do so. To call for a unity of the left minded massics under the tattered hanner of the old left, (as is donc in the second resolution published in this booklet) Will only mislead the working class and the masses.
The auth OTS Of this booklet deserve credit, however, for their judgement of the U.N.P. and for publicly stating as Christians, that the UNP cannot solve the gravic and explosive economic and social problems of this country.
H. A. Seni elwir atne
Inflation . . .
(Criter fr Page 2)
the areas Which suffered most from inflation in the USA.
Meanwhile, the leading city stock brokers James Capel, predict that a sharp recession in the British cconomy is possible in the second his of 1979. This would be caused by accelerating inflation, monetary restraint, and fiscal measures to reduce consumer demand.
Nazism . . .
(Corfirirred fron page rir)
The witch-Hunt T1 T left ists hä5 been building up Ill. The Titull, particularly in the public se Twice and the teaching profession, Paul Martin of Newsweek recently Teported a case from Bon I),
By giving publicity to cases such as these, liberal opinion has gained ground, "Public opinion is hardening against the radical ban, 'Writes Elizabeth Pond, in the Crisi See Morritor, "on the grounds that it eroded the country's constitutional guarantee of freedom of thought."
The B. B. C's prestigious Patriarand program also recently preselled the frightening case-histories of innocent German teachers, officials, and even Christiam pasto Ts, who hawe been victims of this neo-Nazi witch-hit in West Grilla Ily.

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