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• History (Sri Lanka)

  Sri Lanka: Now online; portals into our past through the lens of radical activists

  17 October, by ISMAIL Adilah

  The online archive of Dissidents and Activists in Sri Lanka offers narratives from the 1960s to 1990s by radical activists from the south of Sri Lanka. The ephermeralia and documents digitized in the archive are from personal collections, institutional libraries and collectives scattered around (...)

• History (Sri Lanka)

  Sri Lanka: Origins and growth of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna

  6 April, by SOMASUNDARAM Jayantha

  The 50^th anniversary of the first JVP insurrection falls today. The 1971 rebellion was the first armed uprising against the state in modern times.
  The JVP was the brainchild of Rohana Wijeweera. Born in 1943, at Hunandeniya, in the Matara District, his father was a supporter of the Communist (...)

• History (Sri Lanka)

  Sri Lanka: Youth of today little realise the enormity of sacrifices made by youth in 71

  4 April, by JAYAWARDANA Sandun

  In a long ranging interview JVP leader talks of the party’s first insurrection, how the ghosts of the past still haunt the party and its vision for the future
  The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) will mark the 50^th anniversary of its 1971 insurrection tomorrow (April 5). The party has never been (...)

• History (Sri Lanka)

  Sri Lanka: Rosa Luxemburg and the ‘Young Socialist’ of Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

  5 March, by SKANTHAKUMAR Balasingham

  Rosa Luxemburg, the Polish-born revolutionary of Jewish heritage who was born 150 years ago on March 5^th this year, had no reason in her frenetic political, intellectual and literary activism to attend to an inconsequential island in the Indian Ocean.
  However, decades after her murder in (...)