On Friday, February 1st, Roger Silverman from Workers International Network and Nikos Anastasiadis from Internationalist Standpoint interviewed Swasthika Arulingam, a trade union activist from Sri Lanka. She described the process behind the huge 2022 uprising that ousted the longstanding authoritarian ruler Gotabaya Rajapaksa, its strengths and weakenesses, and what is the state of consiousness, the Left and the movement today.