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, by KUMAR Vijaya
Kumar David (1941-2024)
Kumar David is no more. Readers of Colombo Telegraph will no more receive his incisive comments on Sri Lankan and global politics and his occasional contributions on science and technology. A sad loss for Colombo Telegraph and for intellectual dialogue on Sri Lanka.
I (…)
, by DAVID Kumar
Gauging Bahu’s political legacy is in progress with many commentators making piecemeal contributions. Eulogies and commentaries have appeared in recent months but the discourse that I commence here is different. My association with VBK (Vickramabahu Karunaratne) goes back decades when we both (…)
, by Daily FT
JAS Presidential candidate Nuwan Bopage says main issue to be addressed is plight of SL’s working people and how their situation can be improved
Criticises exploitation of informal sector workers in SL and blames capitalism for it
Says people will suffer same fate regardless of Ranil (…)
, by LANKAPELI Dharmasiri
Vickramabahu Karanaratne, the secretary of the New Samasamaja Party, who was ill, passed away on July 25 while undergoing treatment at the Colombo General Hospital.
The press release issued by the ‘Socialist People’s Forum’ issuing condolence for his death is published in its entirety below. (…)
, by LANKAPELI Dharmasiri
The People’s Struggle Alliance (PSA—Jana Aragalaya Sandanaya/Makkal Poraata Munnani) is a newly formed movement of Left political organisations and individuals active in the 2022 people’s uprising (‘Aragalaya/Poraatam/Struggle’) in Sri Lanka who are advancing and deepening its demand for ‘system (…)
, 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 DAVID Kumar
For a start I divide the history of Samasamajism, the story of the Samasamaja movement as whole, not just the Party, into four periods centred on the last century. We are entering a fifth Period which will encompass Samasamajism’s Twenty-first Century.
The two Phases of the first or Classical (…)
, by JAYATILLEKA Dayan
Many months –perhaps even a year –ago, I was so positively struck by a television performance by Ramindu Perera that I wanted to know more and inquired about him from my friend at the Open University, Dr. Mahim Mendis, who said good things about his young colleague. I am not surprised therefore (…)
Even its adversaries would admit that the Jathika Jana Balavegaya (NPP) has emerged as the most successful force in the post-aragalaya political scene. A recent opinion poll conducted by the Institute for Health Policy (IHP) indicates that the NPP would have a significant lead over the main (…)
, par Socialist People’s Forum (Samajawadi Janatha Sansadaya)
The Samajawadi Janatha Sansadaya (Socialist People’s Forum) denounces the arrests of activists of the people’s struggle (Aragalaya), and police violence on peaceful student protestors, on Thursday 18 August. Twenty arrests were made, while four remain in police custody as of today, following an (…)
, by DAVID Marianne, KUMAR Shamala
With the appointment of the President and new Cabinet, Sri Lanka is presently witnessing the systematic reinforcement of the existing system, the one that the Aragalaya demanded must change, asserts Prof. Shamala Kumar of the University of Peradeniya.
“We are again confronted with the reality (…)
, by FRANCISCO Dinuli, MUDALIGE Wasantha
Interview with IUSF Convener Wasantha Mudalige
For the first time in the history, Inter-university Student Federation (IUSF) appears in a different light in the eyes of most of the masses. The prime reason behind this is the contribution rendered by the IUSF to make the “Aragalaya” a success. (…)
, by CHAMARA Sumudu
Protestors note infiltration of hidden political agendas and ulterior motives affecting the people’s struggle
One of the reasons that critics consider the ongoing anti-Government and anti-President protests, dubbed the “aragalaya” (struggle), the most significant people’s movement in the (…)
, by Socialist People’s Forum (Samajawadi Janatha Sansadaya)
The Samajawadi Janatha Sansadaya (Socialist Peoples’ Forum) condemns the violence unleashed on peaceful protestors at ‘GotaGoGama’ adjacent to the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo, in the early hours of Friday 22nd July.
Two thousand military and police cordoned off access roads to the (…)
, by WARAVITA Pamodi
Calls for General election ASAP, claiming P’ment doesn’t reflect people’s aspirations
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)-led National People’s Power (NPP) Leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake, who was one of the three candidates for the vote in Parliament on the eighth Executive President yesterday (…)
, by UYANGODA Jayadeva
The emergence of Frontline Social Party (FSP) in July as a major voice of the aragalaya (‘People’s uprising/struggle’) movement has led to many negative reactions. Searching questions are being raised and debated particularly among the urban professional and business classes as well as (…)
, by MAJEED Imaad
I am here to ask you to place an empathetic ear to the ground to listen to the sound of collapse.
It seems that whenever we look out into the world through our smartphones, there is only doom to scroll through. Every day, we are inundated with another crisis, with the constant din of the (…)
, by DISSANAYAKE Anura Kumara, KODAGODA Anuradha
It is much easier to imagine the end of all life on earth than a much more modest radical change in capitalism – Slavoj Zizek
Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek’s quotation is quite apt to the situation in the country right now where the whole system collapsed before our eyes overnight. Yet (…)
, by RAJASINGAM Nirmala
With the passing of Periyathamby Rajanayagam, another stalwart of the vintage days of left activism in Sri Lanka, is now gone. Rajanayagam was a trade unionist, human rights lawyer, journalist, writer and most importantly a life-long left political activist, to whom social justice, democracy (…)
, by PEIRIS Jeewantha
The protest at Galle Face is continuing despite President Gotabaya Rajapaksa refusing to step down.
Rev. Fr. Jeewantha Peiris is a key figure in the struggle at Galle Face and he is confident that the main objective of the protest will be met.
In an interview with Daily Mirror, Rev. Fr. (…)
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