by ssa-admin-032024 | May 18, 2022 | Interview
‘The Act of Protest is a Privilege’: Serika Siriwardhana from Yellow for Democracy interviewed by Treshan Fernando On 4th April 2022, Independence Square was filled with an estimated 8000 people, possibly in one of the biggest political gatherings the square has seen...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Apr 28, 2022 | Interview
Sri Lanka: No agreement with the IMF! Eric Toussaint interviewed by Sushovan Dhar A Sri Lankan delegation was in Washington DC over the week of 18 April to try to secure up to $4 billion from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other lenders to help the island...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Apr 14, 2022 | Interview
Restructuring, Audit, Suspension and Abolition of the Debt Éric Toussaint interviewed in 2015 by Maud Bailly for CADTM According to Eric Toussaint, debt restructuring has always been the result of economic and geopolitical calculation, rarely producing a favourable...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Mar 15, 2022 | Interview
‘Ecological Agriculture is a Political Question’ Mr. Sandun Thudugala interview Mr. M. K. Jayathissa and Ms. Vimukthi de Silva The government’s overnight ban on the import of chemical fertilisers, pesticides and weedicides, to make Sri Lanka’s agriculture “100 percent...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Jan 17, 2022 | Interview
In and Out of Place: A Conversation between Shyam Selvadurai and Neloufer de Mel This conversation was part of a panel discussion on Imaginative Geographies: The Place of Sri Lanka in Contemporary Sri Lankan Writing in English, featured at the virtual festival on...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Aug 30, 2021 | Interview
‘The government didn’t care’: Katunayake Free Trade Zone Workers in the Pandemic in Sri Lanka During the first coronavirus pandemic lockdown in Sri Lanka for over two months, beginning 20th March 2020, workers in the export processing zones faced immense hardship as...
