SEP Chairman Wije Dias dies aged 80
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SEP Chairman Wije Dias dies aged 80

SEP Chairman Wije Dias dies aged 80

Chairman of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP), the Sri Lankan section of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI), veteran Trotskyist, Wije Dias died this morning at the age of 80.


Wije Dias who was a leader of the ICFI and a member of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site died this morning at the Jayawardenapura hospital due to a heart attack. Issuing a statement, the SEP said the death of Wije is a great loss for the party, in particular, the ICFI as a whole, and the working class in Sri Lanka, South Asia, and internationally.


He was an intransigent fighter for more than half a century for the Trotskyist principles of international socialism that embody the interests of the working class in Sri Lanka and around the world. Wije was a founding member of the Revolutionary Communist League (RCL), the predecessor of the SEP, established in June 1968 to take up the fight for Trotskyism in the wake of the Lanka Sama Samaja’s (LSSP) betrayal in 1964 when it entered the bourgeois government of Prime Minister Sirima Bandaranaike.


Wije Dias led the party in fighting for the political independence of the working class from all the parties of the political establishment, its pseudo-left hangers-on, and trade union agencies.

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