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Many months –perhaps even a year –ago, I was so positively struck by a television performance by Ramindu Perera that I wanted to know more and inquired about him from my friend at the Open University, Dr. Mahim Mendis, who said good things about his young colleague. I am not surprised therefore (...)
Even its adversaries would admit that the Jathika Jana Balavegaya (NPP) has emerged as the most successful force in the post-aragalaya political scene. A recent opinion poll conducted by the Institute for Health Policy (IHP) indicates that the NPP would have a significant lead over the main (...)
The Samajawadi Janatha Sansadaya (Socialist People’s Forum) denounces the arrests of activists of the people’s struggle (Aragalaya), and police violence on peaceful student protestors, on Thursday 18 August. Twenty arrests were made, while four remain in police custody as of today, following an (...)
With the appointment of the President and new Cabinet, Sri Lanka is presently witnessing the systematic reinforcement of the existing system, the one that the Aragalaya demanded must change, asserts Prof. Shamala Kumar of the University of Peradeniya.
“We are again confronted with the reality (...)
Interview with IUSF Convener Wasantha Mudalige
For the first time in the history, Inter-university Student Federation (IUSF) appears in a different light in the eyes of most of the masses. The prime reason behind this is the contribution rendered by the IUSF to make the “Aragalaya” a success. (...)
Protestors note infiltration of hidden political agendas and ulterior motives affecting the people’s struggle
One of the reasons that critics consider the ongoing anti-Government and anti-President protests, dubbed the “aragalaya” (struggle), the most significant people’s movement in the recent (...)
The Samajawadi Janatha Sansadaya (Socialist Peoples’ Forum) condemns the violence unleashed on peaceful protestors at ‘GotaGoGama’ adjacent to the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo, in the early hours of Friday 22nd July.
Two thousand military and police cordoned off access roads to the site, (...)
Calls for General election ASAP, claiming P’ment doesn’t reflect people’s aspirations
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)-led National People’s Power (NPP) Leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake, who was one of the three candidates for the vote in Parliament on the eighth Executive President yesterday (20), (...)
The emergence of Frontline Social Party (FSP) in July as a major voice of the aragalaya (‘People’s uprising/struggle’) movement has led to many negative reactions. Searching questions are being raised and debated particularly among the urban professional and business classes as well as politically (...)
I am here to ask you to place an empathetic ear to the ground to listen to the sound of collapse.
It seems that whenever we look out into the world through our smartphones, there is only doom to scroll through. Every day, we are inundated with another crisis, with the constant din of the (...)
It is much easier to imagine the end of all life on earth than a much more modest radical change in capitalism – Slavoj Zizek
Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek’s quotation is quite apt to the situation in the country right now where the whole system collapsed before our eyes overnight. Yet who (...)
With the passing of Periyathamby Rajanayagam, another stalwart of the vintage days of left activism in Sri Lanka, is now gone. Rajanayagam was a trade unionist, human rights lawyer, journalist, writer and most importantly a life-long left political activist, to whom social justice, democracy (...)
The protest at Galle Face is continuing despite President Gotabaya Rajapaksa refusing to step down.
Rev. Fr. Jeewantha Peiris is a key figure in the struggle at Galle Face and he is confident that the main objective of the protest will be met.
In an interview with Daily Mirror, Rev. Fr. (...)
Sri Lanka is going through its worst economic and political crisis in nearly 75 years of independence. With foreign currency reserves almost empty, debt repayments spiralling and the value of the rupee collapsing, the country’s leaders have been forced into the hands of the International (...)
Current public agitation should be sustained in the long run It should not be confined only to Galle Face It should be spread across the country FSP in agreement with TNA on a new Constitution Self-rule is recognized
The Frontline Socialist Party (FSP) is a party that, along with others, (...)
I first met Linus Jayatilake about a decade ago as some of us began engaging trade unions. While I had heard about Linus from my father, meeting Linus at the Commercial and Industrial Workers Union (CIWU) office on Barracks Lane, began a friendship that deeply influenced me. Linus’ sensibilities (...)
Says necessary in order to meet certain main demands of the people Party Gen Secy Kumar Gunaratnam says Prez resignation a prerequisite To present proposals to JVP/NPP, BASL, trade unions, civil organisation
The Frontline Socialist Party (FSP) said yesterday (11) that a temporary consensus (...)
“It is not defeat that is a disgrace, it is surrender,” roared Vasudeva Nanayakkara at the now forgotten Nugegoda rally on February 18, 2015. That was the “Mahinda Sulanga” rally that purportedly led to the return of the Rajapaksas in November 2019, but with a major difference – Gotabaya Rajapaksa (...)
The Frontline Socialist Party (FSP) yesterday (20) claimed that a group of people connected to a local politician was involved in beating up the protestors that were being dispersed by the Police at Rambukkana on Tuesday (19).
“It is very clear that the Police did not have to shoot to disperse (...)
“It is a youth protest.”
Youth “should do xxxx” and “should xxxxxx. They need direction.”
“No one has control of the protests. Even the political parties have no control over the protests.”
“I went down there last night and it was like a party. They have lost focus. They need guidance.” (...)
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