DEVELOPMENT
The United Sccretariat, the highest body of the world Trotskyist movement, sont the following message Scptember 1 to the Ceylonese Trotskyists, who are organized in the Lanka Sama Samajea party:
"The United Secretariat of the Fourth International greets the formation of the United Left Front in Ceylon and the participation of its section, the Lanka Sama Samaja party, in it.
"The rally which. was recently held on initiation of the United Left Front shows that the Ceylonese messes. have great hope that this formation will become a genuine socialist alternative to the present government and that it will help mobilize the people in all their ranks in a struggle for the major aims indicated in the platform of the United Left Front.
"We. hope with the Ceylonese masses that the United Left Front will succeed in becoming a rallying point for uniting in struggle all the working masses, both the city workers and plantation laborers and poor peasants, regardless of their nationality or of their particular trade-union and political affiliations."