Following the Sri Lankan presidential elections, Stanly Johny and Meera Srinivasan discuss Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s victory ...

Sri Lanka elected its first left-wing president on September 21. Anura Kumara Dissanayake received 42 percent of votes cast, ...

The heading of this article is inspired by the title of Edgar Snow’s , “Red Star Over China”. Snow’s book first published in 1937 was a vivid account of his interaction with the Chinese communist ...

The 2022 people’s uprising reverberates in the outcome of the 2024 presidential election. The prospects for progressive change in Sri Lanka rest on the political and social dynamics of the next few ...

Far from simply balancing between the major powers, Dissanayake and the JVP/NPP have made abundantly clear that his ...

Under normal circumstances, the victory of Anura Kumara Dissanayake in Sri Lanka’s presidential election would have been ...

The rapacious Sri Lankan elites see the IMF’s harsh austerity demands as encouraging greater foreign direct investment and ...

Marxist politician Anura Dissanayake won Sri Lanka’s presidential election over the weekend, dealing a blow to a political ...

Marxist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn in as Sri Lanka’s president on Monday after an election that saw voters ...

On September 22, 2024, the Sri Lankan election authority announced that Anura Kumara Dissanayake of the Janatha Vimukthi ...

Forced into exile 25 years ago and compelled to stay away in order to stay alive, journalist D.B.S. Jeyaraj always dreamt of returning to Sri Lanka. That flame of hope flickered occasionally, as the ...

The policies of his Marxist party, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, are aligned with protectionism, according to Gamage. "Their ...