Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, 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 (...)
The 50th 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 (...)
, 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 50th anniversary of its 1971 insurrection tomorrow (April 5). The party has never been (...)
Rosa Luxemburg, the Polish-born revolutionary of Jewish heritage who was born 150 years ago on March 5th 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 (...)
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