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Yesterday’s strike launched by over 1,000 trade unions demanding the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and the Cabinet of Ministers brought the country to a standstill.
Unionists also gathered in several locations in Colombo and marched to Gota Go Gama (GGG). They said President (...)
Several state, semi-government and private sector trade unions resorted to a 24-hour island-wide strike today (28), against the current administration.
Train services have been disrupted after several employees belonging to various railway trade unions did not report to work, the General (...)
It’s around 8 am on Wednesday, May 25. Sri Lanka’s youth-led protest site near the presidential secretariat in front of the iconic Galle Face was almost empty.
Only four young men were there at the entrance of the presidential secretariat – two sitting on the barricade, one on the stage which is (...)
As Sri Lanka officially defaults on its sovereign debt repayments, and enters negotiations with the International Monetary Fund for access to loans in return for structural macro-economic change in response to the ongoing economic crisis, the Women and Media Collective, the Social Scientists’ (...)
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s Cabinet of Ministers is coming into shape and it inspires very little confidence or credibility. Nine Parliamentarians who represented the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna, Sri Lanka Freedom Party and the Samagi Jana Balawegaya were sworn in as Cabinet Ministers (...)
Poets, academics, novelists, performance artists, painters, and activists expound on SL’s burgeoning art and literary scene anchored in expressing dissent
Resistance literature has taken a new foothold in Sri Lanka as the “Go Home Gota” struggle continues, centred around the demand for the (...)
Whatever may have been the subjective intentions of Ranil Wickremesinghe in becoming Prime Minister for a beleaguered President, the objective outcomes of the new diarchic arrangement are now clearly in evidence. The desired political response to the protest movement that began in Mirihana, (...)
The indifference and reluctance of the police to act decisively against groups of political supporters which committed violent acts outside Temple Trees and on Galle Face green on May 9. 2022, caused a vicious backlash in many parts of the country. These omissions also contributed to a serious (...)
Back in 2019 the Sri Lankan citizenry elected the Gotabaya Rajapaksa regime with high hopes based on the assurance of establishing national security while placing their trust in his Vistas for Prosperity and Splendour manifesto. Two years later, people have lost hopes on this government as they (...)
Feroza Hussein, 58, lives on the outskirts of the capital Colombo with her husband, a day laborer who has struggled to find consistent work since the start of the pandemic. She recently had to quit working because of her high blood pressure, and they have been hit hard by rising costs. Her (...)
Workers’ remittances inflow has more than halved in the first quarter of this year to $ 783 million from a year ago. As per the Central Bank data, the January to March figure is down by 58% from $ 1.86 billion achieved in the first quarter of last year.
In March workers remittances inflow (...)
Although the rising prices of essential food items is a major topic amidst the current crisis, the matter has been a growing concern for several years, especially following the Government’s decision to adopt an organic fertiliser-only policy last year. The country’s agriculture sector was (...)
The Families of the Disappeared organisation in Sri Lanka is calling on the Parliament to release all the names collected by Presidential Commissions of Inquiry (CoIs) into the alleged perpetration of enforced disappearances in the late 1980s, including the list that names President Gotabaya (...)
A peaceful democratic ‘revolution’ is sweeping across Sri Lanka. It is a revolution from below, from the people. It has activated large segments of Sri Lankan people to shed the habits of passive citizenship and transform themselves into active citizens. Sri Lankan citizens have now claimed an (...)
The promoters of anti-Rajapaksa peaceful protestors at GotaGoGama in Galle Face, Colombo last night put forward a set of demands to the newly appointed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe.
Noting that the 36-day movement is not confined to Galle Face but countrywide nor it was a carnival but a (...)
Central Bank to re-negotiate conditions of swap Requests discussions with Chinese Embassy
China’s currency swap of Chinese Yuan (CNY) 10 billion (close to $ 1.5 billion) cannot be used even to fund Chinese imports to Sri Lanka, said Central Bank of Sri Lanka Governor Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe. (...)
Sri Lanka’s economic crisis has produced an explosion of violence on the island. That violence won’t end until the country ends its war on Tamils and Muslims and drastically scales back its military budget.
Sri Lanka is in crisis. This week, the houses of government-aligned MPs have been set on (...)
Sri Lanka is in the grip of its worst economic crisis since Independence. Behind recent headlines, the Covid-19 pandemic has exposed structural problems that were decades in the making. The origins of today’s foreign exchange crisis are rooted in the colonial plantation sector, failed industrial (...)
By the time of this writing, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has reportedly submitted his resignation. Assuming he does not recant his decision for yet another time, he might be leaving the office, but only after coming almost close to setting the country on fire in political violence that (...)
PM resigns; government collapses; Sajith and his MPs encounter hostility, but not JVP leaders
The entire Cabinet of Ministers, including Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, resigned hours after protests erupted in Colombo, its suburbs and several other parts of the country. Sri Lanka Podujana (...)
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