Pierre Frank, a founding member of the Fourth International, is a former secretary of Leon Trotsky. He attended the Special Con~ference of the Lanka Sama Samaja party which was held.in Colombo June 6~7, As the official representative of the Fourth International at that gathering, he supported the struggle of the Left Wing against a proposal by N.M.Perera, or any variation of it, to support a bourgeois coalition government. (See World Outlook Sune 19, June 26,)]
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The vote at the Special Conference of the Lanka Sama Samaja party June 7, authorizing Perera and his friends to enter a bourgeois government, was a blow against the Fourth International and the