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Sri Lanka: Obituary – Life-long Sri Lankan Trotskyist dies in London, 4 August, 2007
Wesley Suthantharabal Muthiah 1930 – 2007
Articles by Siritunga Jayasuriya, Secretary United Socialist Party (CWI Sri Lanka)
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