PRIME MINISTER!S NEW SERVANTS
[The following statement to the press was released by Edmund Samarakkody on June 12, immediately after certain LSSP leaders oentered the SLFP government in Ceylon. Edmund Samarakkody is secretar of the Provisional Committee of the LSSP (Revolutionary Section),
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Our erstwhile Comrades, N.M,Perera, Cholmondeley Goonewardena . and Anil Moonesinghe, have now become Honourable Ministers of Her Majesty the Queen. Henceforth, vested with the authority of the capitalist state, they will serve Her Majesty and their new leader Mrs, Sirima Bandaranaike, in keeping the Ceylon masses in subjeotion to the capitalist class, This is only the formation of the abandon~ _ ment of the L.S.S.P. and its revolutionary programme by Dr.N.M.Perera and his followers like Mr. Leslie Goonewardena, Dr. Colvin R. de Silva, Mr. Bernard Soysa and Senator Doric de Souza.
Three of the fourteen points accepted by the Hon.N.M,Perera and his colleagues were not mentioned by them at the Party conference where they got the mandate for the abandonment of the program of our Party. These are the points relating to religion, language and citizenship rights, which the S.L.F.P. leadership is reported to have insisted upon. The acceptance of these points makes it clear that the Hon,N.M.Perera and his colleagues have capitulated completely to the ideology of the Ceylonesé bourgeoisie. Furthermore names like N,M,Perera, Colvin R, de Silva and Leslie Goonewardena ean no more be associated with the fight for democratic rights of the mine orities in Ceylon, -
As for the workers the vast mass on the plantations who were deprived of their citizenship and voting rights by the citizenship laws of D.S.Senanayake's U.N.P.Government, will now remain deprived of these elementary democratic rights with the support of the Hon. N,.M,Perera and his followers.
The workers in the private seotor are to get nothing that hag been thought worth mentioning, Workers in government employment and in state enterprises are merely to be given the right to form committees to advise their bosses on how to get the best results from the sweat of the workers,
For the rural masses, there is no promise of land or jobs, All they are offered is the right to form Vigilance Committees, What these committees will be expected to do for the Government remains to be seen.
For the rest the masses will be invited to be patient and to back whatever candidates the Hon, Sirimavo Bandaranaike may seleot from the S.L.F,P. or from the Hon.N.M,Perera's Party to ensure that she will be able to form a government after the next elections. - The British Imperialists, in particular, must be quite pleased at the turn of events. The Hon.N.M.Perera and his Party are now pledged to:play the game of capitalist parliamentary politics under the leadership of the Hon, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, so that capitalism in Ceylon will be maintained either under the blue flag of the S.L.F.P., or, if the new combination fails, under the green flag of the U.N.P.
Thus Messrs, N.M.Perera, Leslie Goonewardena, Dr. Colvin R. de Silva and their Party have completely betrayed the working olass and the toiling people. Rarely has treachery by leaders of the working class been so naked,
UNITED NATIONS