The government has given the Left a chance to reorganise. I don’t mean the Left of the LSSP, the Communist Party, the JVP, the FSP, or...
DR. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA In April 1978 in Afghanistan, a pro-Soviet Communist Party effected a revolutionary seizure of power for the first time since world communism suffered...
By Saman Indrajith Former Health Minister and senior SJB politician Dr Rajitha Senaratne says that the government’s crisis calendar is overflowing. Teachers and principals are on...
As it stands, the Opposition under Sajith Premadasa has three routes to take, or to be more specific, left to take. Without considering all the cards...
by Uditha Devapriya The protests over the controversial KNDU Bill continue to boil and simmer. This is the most serious and debatable piece of legislation the...
DR. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA In successive waves of democratization beginning in the 1970s in Portugal, and the 1980s in Poland and the Philippines, autocracies were pushed back...
by Uditha Devapriya Having shot itself in the foot, the government seems to be picking up. It may well be too little too late, but this...
by Nihal de Alwis Most Lankans would by now have forgotten the poorest prime minister the world ever had, the late Dr W. Dahanayake. “W” was...
DR. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA The JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake (AKD) used rude language in Parliament to criticize the No Confidence Motion moved by the Samagi Jana...
BY MAJ. GEN. (RTD) HARSHA GUNARATNE VSV The so-called “Black July” riots of July 23, 1983, marked the culmination of a slow build- up of inter-communal...