David North, the chairman of the international editorial board of the World Socialist Web Site and the national chairman of the Socialist Equality Party in the US, addressed public meetings in Colombo and at the University of Peradeniya in Kandy, Sri Lanka over the past week. The well-attended events were called to mark 80 years since the founding of the Fourth International and 50 years since the founding of the Revolutionary Communist League, which later became the Socialist Equality Party in Sri Lanka.
North discussed the 80th anniversary of the Fourth International on “Rise and Shine,” Sri Lanka’s most popular English-language morning television show, on October 8. The two interviewers were Sharon Mascarenhas and Waruna Solanga Arachchi.