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Home Groupthink: A New Phase of an Old Epidemic? Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe at an event to declare open the new Eswatte Bridge in Ranwala on June 8, 2018. Self-censorship amongst party members is not uncommon as a form of self-preservation. But for how long will the iron-clad control last?

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe at an event to declare open the new Eswatte Bridge in Ranwala on June 8, 2018. Self-censorship amongst party members is not uncommon as a form of self-preservation. But for how long will the iron-clad control last?

Professor Rohana Lakshman Piyadasa (left) was appointed acting General Secretary of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, and the outgoing General Secretary, Duminda Dissanayake, the National Organiser in early June this year. Both insist that President Sirisena will be SLFP’s Presidential candidate. Both are obviously living on cloud nine.
Left parties which maintained its ideological commitment for decades, shamelessly compromised in the face of the Rajapaksa juggernaut. What is more ironical than a book by a life time leftist DEW Gnenesekara’s being flaunted at a news conference of the People’s Alliance.

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