Birth centenary of Bernard Soysa
Memorial Lecture
“Not Sharing Power for the Sake of Power”
(in Sinhala)
by
Prof. Sarath Wijesuriya
University of Colombo
at 4.30 pm, Thursday, 20 March 2014
Venue: Sri Lanka Foundation Institute
Chair: Prof. Narada Warnasuriya
You are cordially invited.
Bernard Soysa Commemoration Committee
Nathan / March 19, 2014
Bernard Soysa, unlike his Trotskyite comrades, was man of Principles. Power and position could not buy him.
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Senguttuvan / March 19, 2014
A gentleman to the core – politics did not seduce him to do the wrong thing to accumulate filthy lucre. He did not own a car when I used to call on him – with mutual friends. There were times he did not have money to colour-wash his Havelock Road home in Colombo. Those were days of principled politics. Even when the LSSP joined Mrs. B’s Cabinet – a move brokered by T.B. Ilangaratne I felt, in talking to him, he was not entirely satisfied with old LSSP principles being sacrificed. I, of course, agree the times – they were a-changing (Dylan) We will never see the giants of Left politics like Bernard again.
Senguttuvan
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Bensen Burner / March 19, 2014
Bernard was a true Trotskyist and Marxist. May his memory live on.Bensen
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