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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 (...)
In 1908, 15,000 working women marched through New York City demanding decent working hours, better pay, and voting rights. In 1910, at the Second International Conference of Working Women, Clara Zetkin proposed the idea of an International Women’s Day.
In 1908, 15,000 working women marched (...)
The South Colombo Youth League [Marxist] got involved in the Suriyamal Movement and revived it on a new anti-imperialist and anti-war basis. Yearly until the Second World War, young women sold Suriya flowers on the streets on Armistice Day in competition with the ‘imperialists’ Poppy sellers. (...)
It is only by coming together as citizens of this country that we can ensure the inalienable fundamental rights of Muslim women and children without being appropriated either by majoritarian state agenda or by conservative Muslim community agenda
“The MMDA as it stands now is far from Islamic. (...)
“Even though they have other lands to cremate bodies at, they are trying to bring bodies to this site,” Selvam Kadirkamanathan, Member of the Valikamam East Provincial Council -
“But people haven’t been using this cemetery. It is said that bodies were cremated in this site some 30 years ago,” (...)
“Our challenge is to devise some arrangement which enables us to coexist if not in amity then at least in forbearance.” Jawaharlal Nehru (quoted in Andre Malraux’s Anti-Memoir).
During Black July, marauding mobs, when uncertain about the ethnic identity of a potential victim, would order him/her (...)
“… stability, no less than revolution, may have its own kind of Terror”
Ranil Wickremesinghe has apparently peaked in popularity in the twilight of a dismal political career. Among party leaders, he is viewed favourably by 54% of the public (in comparison to 43% for the Leader of the Opposition (...)
Bimal Ratnayake, a stalwart of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), in an interview with DailyMirror, responds to questions on elections, and their policies to develop the country. A Marxist party it is, the JVP has advocated socialist policies right throughout.
How do you see the importance of (...)
Political scientists and legal academics note pressing need for authorities mired in ‘economic crisis myopia’ to instead identify ‘crises’ as opposed to a ‘crisis’ and seek ‘solutions’ instead of a ‘solution’
Although the pressing need to address the prevailing crisis situation in the country has (...)
Inspired by Yugoslavia’s market socialism, Trotskyists in the Sri Lankan government instituted workers’ councils during the 1970s. A decade later, the experiment collapsed. What explains its rise and fall?
On June 28, 1948, the Cominform, the Stalinist alliance of European Marxist-Leninist (...)
Labour force participation rate continues to fall
Sri Lanka’s official unemployment rate climbed, raising serious concerns for the policymakers, as the economic crisis is taking a severe toll on jobs, with many small and medium-sized businesses are either closing down or pushed to the brink (...)
Second reading of controversial Bill this month
The Government will bring the Bureau of Rehabilitation Bill before Parliament for a second reading this month. When the Bill was first presented in November 2022, the Supreme Court found the Bill unconstitutional in its entirety, a ruling it (...)
The Sri Lankan Government needs to move ahead with MMDA reforms before any more delays and scuttling by conservative groups with intentions to suppress Muslim women’s rights in the name of culture or religion
The Sri Lankan Muslim communities have been abuzz with debates about the reform of (...)
Arguments about the economic benefits of women’s labour participation go hand in hand with assumptions about the personal value of women’s work, often framed in terms of empowerment and choice. Yet this notion of choice and empowerment elides not only the deeply unequal and often exploitative (...)
According to Ranil Wickremesinghe and his supporters, stability has transpired in Sri Lanka since his Government was formed. This article attempts to interrogate this stability from an economic policy viewpoint, looking at the 2023 Budget as the centrepiece of the Government’s economic policy (...)
Exclusive: 182 experts say only debt cancellation offers chance of recovery but private investors are playing hardball
Some of the world’s most powerful hedge funds and other investors are holding up vital help for crisis-hit Sri Lanka by their hardline stance in debt-relief negotiations after (...)
Sri Lanka, along with many other low- and middle-income countries, has experienced a series of financial shocks due to both external and internal factors. Global forces have caused food and energy import costs to soar and interest rates to rise, even as the currency has devalued significantly. (...)
Gnanamuttu Kusumawathi, known as Kusuma akka, passed away five years ago. We remember her rebellious spirit and strength with admiration and gratitude. Kusuma akka was a leader in the Panama Pattuwa (Pattuwa refers to an identified area of land in Sinhala) land struggle from August 2010 until (...)
On December 17, 2022, fishermen in northern Sri Lanka alerted the navy about a boat in distress adrift in the sea. On December 18, the navy rescued a group of 104 people from the boat. The navy has referred to them as Myanmar nationals while a statement from the United Nations High Commissioner (...)
Caring for household members. Well-being of the family. Putting food on the table. Washing clothes. Making ends meet. Looking after the young, the old, and differently abled family members. These are everyday activities performed by someone or some people for someone or some people. The (...)
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