He describes a secret agreement between the US and Sri Lanka that allowed US warships and airships to use facilities in Sri Lanka. Ridenour details Western complicity in Sri Lanka’s genocide against the Tamil people. West’s complicity with Sri Lankan war crimes by Ron Ridenour
This article is an excellent way to start thinking about imperialism on the island and why powerful capitalist countries oppose Tamil self-determination in their homeland. Phil Miller is a UK-based journalist who has written extensively about British involvement in Sri Lanka’s war against the Tamil people. Vedanta’s oil: The British oil interest in Sri Lanka by Phil Miller Lee reflects on some of the radical possibilities won by the Tamil resistance movement, like the abolishment of the caste and dowry systems in the Tamil homeland. She understands the Tamil liberation struggle as a movement against colonialism and imperialism. Lee Rhiannon, an activist with the Tamil Eelam solidarity movement and a former Australian Senator, describes the nature of state oppression in Sri Lanka. Don’t Forget the Tamil Genocide by Lee Rhiannon Balasingham also breaks down the failure of the Sri Lankan left to understand and support the Tamil liberation struggle as a way to end national oppression and bring about Tamil and working-class unity against the ruling class. BalasinghamĪnton Balasingham breaks down the theory of Lenin’s “Socialist revolution and the right of nations to self-determination.” Balasingham provides a detailed history of the state oppression in Sri Lanka and the Tamil liberation struggle through the writings of Marx and Lenin. Our Theoretical Guide to the National Question (Published in 1983 in “Liberation Tigers and the Tamil Eelam Freedom Struggle”) by Anton S. He lays out the complicity of the United States and the United Kingdom in assisting the Sri Lankan government’s genocide of the Tamil nation. Jude Lal Fernando, a Sinhalese Academic based in Dublin’s Trinity College, addresses a packed room at the University of Toronto. Sinhala academic blames US-UK axis genocide in Tamil homeland by TamilNet.ĭr. Spring Magazine presents this reading list to help build our knowledge and support the Tamil Eelam liberation struggle. As revolutionary socialists, we are committed to supporting the national liberation struggles of oppressed peoples everywhere.