by ssa-admin-032024 | May 16, 2023 | Essay
Budget 2023: Heal the Wound or Worsen it? Dhanusha Gihan Pathirana This text is adapted from a presentation made at a virtual discussion on the 2023 Budget organised by the Professionals’ Centre for People, on 26 November 2022. The 2023 Budget proposals will further...
by ssa-admin-032024 | May 15, 2023 | Discussions
Seminar series on Critical Agrarian Studies 2023, Seminar 03 – “The Agrarian Basis of Resistance to Dispossession” A talk by Devaka Gunawardena The Critical Agrarian Studies seminar series of the Social Scientists’ Association held its third talk titled “The Agrarian...
by ssa-admin-032024 | May 11, 2023 | Interview
Left Strategy in the Time of the IMF Counter-Revolution Devaka Gunawardena Less than a year has passed since the 9th July uprising last year in Sri Lanka. Nevertheless, the contours of the present regime are well established. A loose network of progressive activists...
by ssa-admin-032024 | May 9, 2023 | History
Sri Lanka 2023: Anniversaries of Struggle Q. M. Saul No matter what happens for the rest of this year, 2023 will go down in the history books of Sri Lanka. This year is like one of those astronomical alignments which only come around once every few centuries. Not only...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Apr 27, 2023 | Workshops
Agrarian Studies in Sri Lanka A workshop organised by the Social Scientists’ Association (SSA) in collaboration with the Young Researchers’ Network (YRN)- Sri Lanka Social Scientists’ Association (SSA) has a deep legacy for creating debate and discussion on the...
