STOP THE RIGGED TRIALS Rohan Wijeweera (above) is on trial, probably for his life, for being a revolutionary. He stands accused of being one of the leaders of the alleged insurrection. Meanwhile Chou-en-tai enthusiasticatly renews his alliance with Bandaranaike June, where she secured a fat $ 100 million loan. The Leylonese regime's expenses have been going up lately - in the past year the government has rapialy been reinforcing its machinery of repression. Ine Chinese bureaucracy is ever more willing to meet the constantly growing need for foreign loans to shore up the shaky bourgeois regime. his time in Peking at the end of within Ceylon. We publish an interview with comrade Bala Tampoe, giving his analysis of the background to the repres sion and the present political situation. We also examine the crisis of the Ceylonese economy; and analyse the political forces engaged in the present struggle. The present regime is supported not only by imperialism and by the reactionary alliance of Gandhi and Bhutto. Both the Russian and Chinese bureaucracies aided Bandaranaike in the suppression of the "insurrection' last year, and now, in the last week of June, she has been received in Peking by Chou-en-lai with open arms and a $100 million loan, which will help to strengthen the repressive apparatus of the bourgeois state in Ceylon. This makes it all the more essential to have a clear analysis of the nature of the bourgeois regime - which is in no way 'progressive, but firmly tied to imperialism - and to give our unconditional and unequivocal support to the forces fighting it. What happened in Ceylon and Bangla Desh last year was not a question of isolated explosions: it was the first great stirring in a new wave of struggles by the peoples of the sub-continent against imperialist oppression and against the rule of the 'national' bourgeoisie whose fate is of necessity tied to that of imperialism. Every major development since the Ceylon April rising and the war in Bangla Desh has confirmed this analysis: the strengthening of the repression in Ceylon, the counter-revolutionary alliance of Gandhi and Bhutto, the crisis of the Mujib government in Bangla Desh. In this context the acuteness of the crisis of bourgeois rule in Ceylon has great importance for the struggle throughout South Asia. April shattered the myth of Ceylonese parliamentary democracy, and now the Ceylonese bourgeoisie stands naked, all its dependence on imperialism exposed; while the working class and the semi-proletarian masses of Ceylon, initially uncertain in the face of the betrayal by their traditional leaderships, are beginning to move to take a stand against the repressive regime which has deprived them of rights won in decades of struggle. The demands for these rights are therefore an integral part of the struggle of the working class movement in Ceylon: and world-wide solidarity with them a basic part of our support for the revolution in the Indian sub-continent.
The Red MoleThe Red Mole Broadsheet issue, Special Ceylon Issue
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