Sanmugathasan, the Unrepentant Left and the Ethnic Crisis in Sri Lanka

Sanmugathasan, the Unrepentant Left and the Ethnic Crisis in Sri Lanka Ravi Vaitheespara
It is a daunting task to understand contemporary Sri Lankan society with all its contradictions. While there has been much theoretically sophisticated and often obtuse scholarship on the ethnic crisis, this paper presents a relatively simple and straightforward analysis of the conflict as provided in the 1970s and 1980s by a major trade union and communist party leader, N Sanmugathasan, which has turned out to be both prescient and insightful. more