Balasingham Skanthakumar

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.
Amilcar Cabral at the 1964 Cassacá Congress.

“No fist is big enough to hide the sky”: 100 years of Amilcar Cabral

Balasingham Skanthakumar — Anti-colonialist and anti-imperialist, party organizer and guerilla warfare strategist, diplomat and publicist, revolutionary theorist and internationalist, Amílcar Cabral was among the most original Marxists of the 20th century.
“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.
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.