Protests in Sri Lanka, Colombo especially, are daily occurrences, university students being the most frequent protestors, next the health sector, followed by teachers and others. And...
by Susantha Hewa For many people in society, universities and academia remain a far-off entity with a certain halo, except when undergrads come to the streets...
By A.J.A. Abeynayake The Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court has issued an order against the staging of a protest march today (24) by the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) employees’...
By Rathindra Kuruwita A large number of health sector unions have decided to go on strike from next Tuesday (02) in protest against what they call...
The National Resource Protection Movement (NRPM) held a demonstration in Colombo on Wednesday against the government’s plans to privatise vital state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Pic by Nishan...
By Anuradha Hiripitiyage Electricity consumers are scheduled to hold a protest opposite the Public Utility Commission of Sri Lanka head office in Colombo 03, today, to...
By Rathindra Kuruwita Employees of the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB), on Friday (05), continued their protest for the third consecutive day against what they called a...
By Hasini Lecamwasam Massive changes are sweeping through the higher education sector in the midst of political and economic chaos. As Naomi Klein’s ‘Disaster Capitalism’ thesis...
What prompted me to write this letter was the concluding paragraph in Dr. Upul Wijayawardhana’s excellent article, Viceroys’ undermining Sri Lanka’s sovereignty’ published in The Island 24.07.2023. It...
Amidst accusations and counter accusations over the alleged failure on the part of the armed forces to suppress violent protest campaign that forced President Gotabaya Rajapaksa...