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, by KADIRGAMAR Ahilan
Since the end of the war, Sri Lanka’s economy is being transformed through a rapid process of financialisation. Such widespread financialisation facilitated infrastructure development, a real estate boom linked to urbanisation and expansion of credit leading to increasing indebtedness of the (...)
, by GUNAWARDENA Devaka
Ahead of the 2015 Presidential Elections that were held on 8 January, Mahinda Rajapaksa seemed unlikely to be defeated. Although Maithripala Sirisena had split from the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, the Rajapaksas had tremendous control over the state and media. Any struggle to prevent a third term (...)
, by KAILASAM Vasugi
Brotherless Night is V. V. Ganeshananthan’s second novel. I read this novel in late July 2023, with a fevered reminder of the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of Black July in Sri Lanka. The reading was a moving exercise that prompted me to pause and reflect on the fractured nature of (...)
, by Daily FT
Trade unions and civil society activists have come together in a concerted effort, presenting five critical demands to challenge what they perceive as detrimental policies of the Government.
These demands aim to address concerns surrounding the Employee Trust Fund (ETF) and Employee (...)
, by Daily FT
A collective of 80 trade unions yesterday wrote to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to express their concerns about the ongoing Domestic Debt Restructuring process affecting the most vulnerable and marginalised citizens of the country.
The trade unions said while people began to feel (...)
, by Petition
An open letter by 82 Sri Lankan trade unions against the IMF’s devastating debt restructuring program.
The IMF and the World Bank have sanctioned an attack on the social security of Sri Lankan working people who are still reeling from the devastating socio-economic impact of the global (...)
Last year, a protest movement in Sri Lanka stormed the presidential palace and forced the president to flee the country. It reminded many of the hartal strike action in 1953, one of the most impressive displays of working-class power in Asia’s modern history.
Last year’s anti-government (...)
, by GUNASEKARA Skandha
In recent years, a growing undercurrent of Hindu majoritarianism and nationalism within the Tamil community has raised significant concerns about their potential repercussions on communal harmony in Sri Lanka. This phenomenon has come under scrutiny due to its manifestations in both online (...)
“It was the class struggle in free flow and it constituted the highest point that the class struggle had yet reached in Ceylon”
70 years ago this month, on 12 August 1953, “a demonstration of the tremendous power of the masses in action” influenced by Left parties and trade unions, shook (...)
, by DISHARA Tharushi, FERNANDO Ruki
The Batalagoda private estate is situated in the Ibbagamuwa Divisional Secretariat of the Kurunegala district. Its entrance is about three kilometres from the Pangolla junction on the Dambulla-Kurunegala road and is easily accessible by private vehicles although public transport is limited. (...)
, by ONDAATJIE Angeline
The socialist era art collection at People’s Bank in Slave Island
Nestled amidst the bustling streets of Slave Island (Kompannavidiya) lies an obscure art gallery that remains largely unknown to the public. The building, a stark relic of Sri Lanka’s socialist era in the 1970s, is frequented (...)
, by APWLD
Women’s rights groups in Sri Lanka reject the current debt restructuring solutions that place the burden of repayment on Sri Lanka’s working classes, particularly its women. They are demanding urgent and sustainable solutions to the ongoing debt crisis in Sri Lanka, that respond to the actual (...)
, by SATKUNANATHAN Ambika
Repressive legislation such as the Bureau of Rehabilitation Act and the Anti-Terrorism Act follow naturally from the Rajapaksas’ post-war militarisation of Sri Lanka’s North and East
A young man from the North, arrested and detained several times for many years under the draconian (...)
, by ALWIS Inosha
Following Sri Lanka’s economic crisis, the healthcare sector is experiencing a migration wave, which has led to a shortage of healthcare workers, impacting healthcare services, medical education, and health equity in the country.
Last November, Keheliya Rambukwella, Sri Lanka’s minister of (...)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
We are re-tracing the journey of the first groups of men and women brought to this country to work in the plantations in the hill country. Over the years thousands landed in Mannar and made the dangerous trek on foot to Matale. They endured diseases, cleared jungles and braved wild animals. (...)
, by GUNASEKARA Skandha
While condemning the recent recommendations given by Muslim Members of Parliament (MPs) on proposed amendments to the Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act (MMDA), civil society groups and lawyers have urged the Ministry of Justice to opt for progressive reforms and refrain from allowing such (...)
, by JAYATILLEKA Dayan
“…While we have witnessed uprisings and wars in the past, the entire system was never so thoroughly challenged as it was in Colombo…”
– President Ranil Wickremesinghe –
“It is Right to Rebel!”
– Mao Zedong –
Was the Aragalaya justified? Should Gotabaya Rajapaksa have been overthrown? (...)
, by CHANDRASEKHAR C. P.
The IMF’s insistence that Sri Lanka reduce its domestic debt will only end up reducing the value of citizens’ savings tied up in retirement funds.
On July 1, Sri Lanka’s parliament approved, through a majority 122-62 vote, a plan to restructure the government’s domestic debt, which totalled (...)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
Sri Lanka is in the middle of a dire economic crisis. We are a witness to the new depths of misery that the people have been plunged into. Working people are the hardest hit, who have had to grapple with precarious wages, job insecurity and the devastation of an economic depression. Despite (...)
, by ARULINGAM Swasthika
The following statement is written on behalf of Unite Collective (a collective of trade unions and mass movements)
The unelected Government of Sri Lanka has advanced Domestic Debt Restructure (DDR) as a measure to meet the Debt Sustainability targets set by the International Monetary Fund (...)
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