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Polity Vol. 11 No. 1
Editorial: Hyper-Reforms amidst Hyper-Austerity Sri Lanka 2023: Anniversaries of Struggle – Q. M. Saul May Day Diary 2023 – B. Skanthakumar Don’t Use Class as
Polity Vol. 10 No. 2
Editorial 2023 Budget: False Promises at the Expense of Women and Working People – Feminist Collective for Economic Justice ‘The Writing Was on the Wall’:
Negotiating Power and Constructing the Nation: Engineering in Sri Lanka by Bandura Dileepa Witharana. Colombo: Tambapanni Academic Publishers, 2022 – Reviewed by Cherry Briggs
Since the mid-1980s, the subjects of nationalism and Sinhalese identity have dominated scholarly output on Sri Lanka. Negotiating Power and Constructing the Nation: Engineering in
In 2024’s elections, lessons from 2015 – Devaka Gunawardena
Ahead of the 2015 Presidential Elections that were held on 8 January, Mahinda Rajapaksa seemed unlikely to be defeated. Although Maithripala Sirisena had split from
“Austerity driven economic reforms affect women more than men” – An Interview with Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky
Dr. Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky was the United Nations Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights between June 2014 and April
Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganeshananthan. Manhattan: Random House, 2023 – Reviewed by Vasugi Kailasam
Brotherless Night is V. V. Ganeshananthan’s second novel. I read this novel in late July 2023, with a fevered reminder of the commemoration of the
Ceylon’s ‘Great Hartal’ of 1953: The Masses Enter History – B. Skanthakumar
NM Perera addresses Galle Face Rally 23 July 1953 “It was the class struggle in free flow and it constituted the highest point that the
Claiming Identity, Dignity, and Justice: Malaiyaha Tamils of Sri Lanka – B. Skanthakumar
The 150th anniversary of the beginning of the tea industry in British Ceylon was marked in 2017 by a range of government and corporate events,
Hyper-Reforms amidst Hyper-Austerity
In an ongoing economic crisis whose fundamental causes the ruling class has absolute disinterest in tackling, an unelected President and an illegitimate government are on