Tenth Commemoration of Comrade Sanmugathasan
The Tenth Commemoration of Comrade Shan, organised
by Sanmugathasan Centre for Marxist Studies, was held at a very
well attended meeting in the Ramakrishna Mission Hall in Colombo
on 17th August 2004. Dr VP Sivanathan of the University of Jaffna
delivered the memorial address. ‘Sanmugathasan Katturaikal’ a
collection of over twenty hitherto unpublished essays by Comrade
Shan on major national and international issues, the communist
movement and Marxist philosophy, in Tamil translation, was
launched by SK Senthivel, General Secretary, New Democratic
Party, and commented on by Ajith Rupasinghe of the Anti-
Imperialist People’s Alliance, T Satchithananthan, Attorney-at-Law
and Dr MS Thambirajah. EThambiah, Co-ordinator of the SCMS
delivered the welcome address. Professor S Sivasegaram, who had
translated the essays, chaired the meeting.
