by ssa-admin-032024 | Jul 1, 2024 | Politics
The conjuncture in the crisis B. Skanthakumar “Aaranchiya Subhai!” (‘Await Good News’) read posters plastered across the country recently. It was the build-up to Ranil Wickremesinghe’s televised speech on June 26, passing off a bad deal with official creditors on debt...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Jun 24, 2024 | Politics
Ukraine: A People’s Peace, not an Imperial Peace Bewegung für den Sozialismus/Mouvement pour le Socialisme (Switzerland), solidaritéS (Switzerland), Sotsialnyi Rukh (Ukraine), Posle Media Collective (Russia), emanzipation – Zeitschrift für ökosozialistische Strategie...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Jun 10, 2024 | Politics
Authoritarian populism in the Global South Alf Gunvald Nilsen During the 2010s, many states across the global South turned decisively to the right. Foreshadowed by the rise of Recep Erdogan in Turkey in the early 2000s, a wave of authoritarian populism swept political...
by ssa-admin-032024 | May 9, 2024 | Politics
#GoHomeGota: The Story Behind Sri Lanka’s Hashtagged Protest Movement. Sulochana Peiris. 2023. 51 minutes Oliver Walton, Deborah Johnson, and Jonathan Goodhand #GoHomeGota is a documentary by Colombo-based freelance filmmaker and writer Sulochana Peiris that explores...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Apr 29, 2024 | Politics
Am I A Settler Too? Reflections of a Sinhalese from Sri Lanka after Gaza Nalin Jayathunga Mapping temporal and spatial lines between the past and the present, this reflection draws parallels between the Palestinian genocide and the Tamil genocide. It is premised on my...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Apr 8, 2024 | Politics
Understanding Fascism: Writings on Caste, Class & The State by K. Balagopal. Curated and Introduced by V. Geetha. Hyderabad: South Side Books, 241p. Jairus Banaji K.Balagopal was a civil rights activist and left-wing intellectual who was mainly active in Andhra...
