1/The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP, the party displayed here) is deeply racist towards the Tamils and has since its inception refused any sort of autonomy towards the Tamils, even going so far as to officially not supporting the milquetoast 13th amendment.
1/The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP, the party displayed here) is deeply racist towards the Tamils and has since its inception refused any sort of autonomy towards the Tamils, even going so far as to officially not supporting the milquetoast 13th amendment.
2/The only reason this party is even allowed to exist in Sri Lanka is that they fundamentally do not challenge the state with regards to Tamil and Muslim issues, hence why they supported Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sri Lankan Benjamin Netanyahu in 2005.
3/The 13th amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka would devolve land administration and policing to the provincial level and would introduce some sort of federalism to Sri Lanka, which does not currently exist. The JVP officially has no stance on this, but unofficially
4/opposes it. The JVP including Wijeweera, since the attempted uprisings between '87-'89, has on multiple occasions said Lenin's Right of Nations to Self-Determination does not apply in the Sri Lankan context, i.e. Tamils don't have a right to self-determination.
5/Tamil communists generally speaking don't like the JVP precisely for this reason. My honest opinion is that there is no chance of class conscious ever developing in Sri Lanka until the Sinhalese working class truly understands the horrors that their state inflicts upon others.
6/There is no chance of class consciousness ever developing in Sri Lanka until the Tamils and Muslims of the Northeast get full autonomy on THEIR terms. Till date the communists of the South have refused to hear anything about justice, reconciliation or accountability
7/for war crimes and land grabs by the Sri Lankan state. The JVP are yet another bourgeois party