CPA strongly condemns the assault on the Secretary of the Judicial Services Commission (JSC), Mr. Manjula Tillakeratne on 7th October and demands an immediate end to intimidation and physical violence against the judiciary and all other dissenting voices.

"Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down."     -- Frederick Douglass (1860 speech in Boston)

comrade P.A. Subramanian received his secondary education at the Jaffna Hindu College, and thereafter graduated from the then University of Ceylon, Faculty of Engineering in 1963. he was my senior and belonged to the group which led us in to Marxism leaving the faculty he worked for the Public Works Department and the State Development and Construction Corporation specialising in highways and bridges. He undertook graduate studies at the University of Birmingham leading to a Master’s degree in Engineering.