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, by KADIRGAMAR Ahilan
Since the end of the war, Sri Lanka’s economy is being transformed through a rapid process of financialisation. Such widespread financialisation facilitated infrastructure development, a real estate boom linked to urbanisation and expansion of credit leading to increasing indebtedness of the (...)
“It was the class struggle in free flow and it constituted the highest point that the class struggle had yet reached in Ceylon”
70 years ago this month, on 12 August 1953, “a demonstration of the tremendous power of the masses in action” influenced by Left parties and trade unions, shook (...)
, by DISHARA Tharushi, FERNANDO Ruki
The Batalagoda private estate is situated in the Ibbagamuwa Divisional Secretariat of the Kurunegala district. Its entrance is about three kilometres from the Pangolla junction on the Dambulla-Kurunegala road and is easily accessible by private vehicles although public transport is limited. (...)
, by ONDAATJIE Angeline
The socialist era art collection at People’s Bank in Slave Island
Nestled amidst the bustling streets of Slave Island (Kompannavidiya) lies an obscure art gallery that remains largely unknown to the public. The building, a stark relic of Sri Lanka’s socialist era in the 1970s, is frequented (...)
, by APWLD
Women’s rights groups in Sri Lanka reject the current debt restructuring solutions that place the burden of repayment on Sri Lanka’s working classes, particularly its women. They are demanding urgent and sustainable solutions to the ongoing debt crisis in Sri Lanka, that respond to the actual (...)
, by SATKUNANATHAN Ambika
Repressive legislation such as the Bureau of Rehabilitation Act and the Anti-Terrorism Act follow naturally from the Rajapaksas’ post-war militarisation of Sri Lanka’s North and East
A young man from the North, arrested and detained several times for many years under the draconian (...)
, by ALWIS Inosha
Following Sri Lanka’s economic crisis, the healthcare sector is experiencing a migration wave, which has led to a shortage of healthcare workers, impacting healthcare services, medical education, and health equity in the country.
Last November, Keheliya Rambukwella, Sri Lanka’s minister of (...)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
We are re-tracing the journey of the first groups of men and women brought to this country to work in the plantations in the hill country. Over the years thousands landed in Mannar and made the dangerous trek on foot to Matale. They endured diseases, cleared jungles and braved wild animals. (...)
, by GUNASEKARA Skandha
While condemning the recent recommendations given by Muslim Members of Parliament (MPs) on proposed amendments to the Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act (MMDA), civil society groups and lawyers have urged the Ministry of Justice to opt for progressive reforms and refrain from allowing such (...)
, 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 CHANDRASEKHAR C. P.
The IMF’s insistence that Sri Lanka reduce its domestic debt will only end up reducing the value of citizens’ savings tied up in retirement funds.
On July 1, Sri Lanka’s parliament approved, through a majority 122-62 vote, a plan to restructure the government’s domestic debt, which totalled (...)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
Sri Lanka is in the middle of a dire economic crisis. We are a witness to the new depths of misery that the people have been plunged into. Working people are the hardest hit, who have had to grapple with precarious wages, job insecurity and the devastation of an economic depression. Despite (...)
, by ARULINGAM Swasthika
The following statement is written on behalf of Unite Collective (a collective of trade unions and mass movements)
The unelected Government of Sri Lanka has advanced Domestic Debt Restructure (DDR) as a measure to meet the Debt Sustainability targets set by the International Monetary Fund (...)
, by KODIKARA Chulani
The IMF Staff Report on Sri Lanka released in March 2022 outlined a number of policy prescriptions to address Sri Lanka’s unprecedented economic crisis, including increasing women’s labour force participation. The few lines in the report on this issue provoked some responses within mainstream (...)
, by FERNANDO Asiri
The Government plans to roll out the new social welfare scheme, Aswesuma, as soon as possible, despite a large number of appeals and resistance from political parties, with the first tranche of payments likely to be made by early August, The Sunday Morning reliably learns.
A senior official (...)
, by YAHAMPATH Shan
Sri Lanka is at a crucial juncture in its economic development, with the International Monetary Fund coming to the rescue for the 17th time after declaring bankruptcy after 74 years of independence. The country’s outdated labour laws must undergo significant reforms to progress and attract (...)
, by KADIRGAMAR Ahilan
The government’s proposed domestic debt restructuring plan is going to be devastating for the most marginalized working people, like plantation and garment workers
The domestic debt restructuring plan announced by the Government last Wednesday and passed by parliament on Saturday, targets (...)
, 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 (...)
, by MUDUGAMUWA Maheesha
Farmers are questioning the Government’s ability to control paddy and rice prices, following the decision by the Paddy Marketing Board (PMB) to stop purchasing paddy from farmers with the Treasury ceasing to release funds to the board, The Sunday Morning learns.
The move by the Government (...)
, by SRINIVASAN Meera
Sri Lanka’s Central Bank has proposed restructuring the beleaguered nation’s debt by recasting the outgo on the country’s pension funds and offering international sovereign bondholders a repayment plan that entails a 30% haircut.
Addressing a media briefing in Colombo Thursday morning, (...)
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