Jumbo problem: Sri Lanka s battle with plastic pollution – The Island island.lk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from island.lk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
March 26 marks the 51st death anniversary of Philip Gunawardena, one of the most colourful political figures of the last century. Dubbed the ‘Father of Marxism’ and the ‘Boralugoda Lion’, Gunawardena whose son Dinesh is now prime minister was a committed socialist who however ended his political career as the Minister of Industries and Fisheries […]
When Sri Lanka Operated Workers Councils newpol.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from newpol.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
By Uditha Devapriya On June 7, 1964, the Central Committee of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party convened a special conference at which three resolutions were presented. The first, moved by N. M. Perera, called for a coalition with the SLFP, inclusive of any ministerial portfolios. The second, led by the likes of Colvin R. de […]
By Uditha Devapriya In a penetrating analysis in Jacobin Magazine, Assistant Professor of History at the University of California Irvine, James Robertson, diagnoses the problems of Yugoslav socialism. For Robertson, Yugoslavia during the Cold War, “represented to many a viable alternative to the Soviet model.” On June 28, 1948, the Cominform, the Stalinist alliance of […]