B.Skanthakumar

Sri Lankan protests 2022

Sri Lanka: ‘Weeks when decades happen’

“There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen”, as Lenin never actually said. The estrangement between the regime-state in Sri Lanka and its core constituencies, while widening over the course of the pandemic years, became outright antagonism in a matter of weeks in the first half of 2022. This is what sets apart the first half of 2022 from the years preceding it.

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Ecosocialism 2025

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