In a speech made on 3 July 2009 to the 'Marxism 2009' conference in London, the author examines the roots and development of ethnic cleansing in Sri Lanka from British colonial rule to the defeat of the Tamil Tigers in 2009. Sri Lanka today is at the cross-roads between parliamentary dictatorship and fascism.
The specifics of this sequence are examined in A. Sivanandan,‘Sri Lanka: racism and the politics of underdevelopment , Race & Class (Vol. 26, no. 1, 1984).
