By Uditha Devapriya Asoka Bandarage’s Colonialism in Sri Lanka (first published in 1983) follows a long…
Category: Economic Crisis
JVP leader says ministers use crises to line their pockets
JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake told Parliament on Thursday that the government ministers have no genuine…
IMF programme: Is there a way out?
by Garvin Karunaratne The Sri Lankan government is finding it hard to fulfil the regulations…
Inflation, Interest Rate & Imperialism By Ameer Ali –
Sri Lanka, like many countries in the neoliberal free market economy zone, is at war with…
Lankans opt to spend less on education
Around 40 percent of Sri Lankans have resorted to livelihood-based coping strategies by reducing their spending…
Tough task of economic revival, recovery and growth
The road to economic recovery and growth is a tough and challenging one. A multiplicity of…
Rajapaksas and false gods: Destroying the country and still hailed as saviours
Rather, some individuals are more culpable for the country’s economic miseries than others. Mahinda Rajapaksa and…
SJB demands entire agreement with IMF, refuses to take part in vote
By Saman Indrajith The Opposition was not in a position to back the IMF/EFF facility at…
Shifting responsibility for economic collapse onto the people
By Jehan Perera Slowly but surely the ruling party is beginning to reassert itself. An…
New anti-terrorism law for self-defence not national defence
By Jehan Perera President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s stock is rising high in the higher echelons of…