Counterfire’s Shabbir Lakha speaks to Nirmala Rajasingam, an organiser with GotaGoGama London and active in the South Asia Solidarity Group, about the background to the mass protests in Sri Lanka that ousted the President and the next steps for the movement
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Shabbir Lakha
Shabbir Lakha is a Stop the War officer, a People's Assembly activist and a member of Counterfire.
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