Sri Lanka

Anura Kumara Dissanayake

Comrade President? Change and continuity in Sri Lanka

Balasingham Skanthakumar — Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s victory on 21 September as the candidate of the centre-left National People’s Power (NPP) coalition is highly significant for symbolic and substantive reasons.

“Anti-government protest in Sri Lanka 2022” by AntanO is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Sri Lanka: The conjuncture in the crisis

Balasingham Skanthakumar looks at the conjuncture in Sri Lanka, two years after the citizens’ movement and in the run-up to the presidential election later this year.

Israel Sri Lanka

Oppression and genocide in Sri Lanka and Palestine

Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the wealth of others — the empires and their native overseers.

Sri Lankan protester with flag

‘The canary in the coal mine’: Sri Lanka’s crisis is a chronicle foretold

Interview with Balasingham Skanthakumar by Eric Toussaint. Reposted from CADTM, August 7, 2022.

Sri Lanka protest Sydney

In Sri Lanka’s crisis, a new president and old problems

By B. Skanthakumar

Lessons for India from the Sri Lankan Crisis graphic

Lessons for India from the Sri Lankan Crisis

By Liberation editorial board

Sri Lankan protests

Sri Lanka’s crisis means endgame for Rajapaksas

By B. Skanthakumar

Sri Lanka’s dual crisis: Ethnic conflict & the debt economy

Behind Sri Lanka’s current protest wave (plus Tracing the historic roots of the island’s economic crisis)

Sri Lanka: The #GotaGoHome protest movement (plus interview: No agreement with the IMF!)

By Jayadeva Uyangoda

‘Inadmissible evidence’ — the truth about Sri Lanka

March 17, 2018 —

Sri Lanka: Behind Maithripala Sirisena's defeat of Mahinda Rajapaksa

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