A failure to engage with Tamil demands for justice, accountability, and autonomy will ultimately prevent Dissanayake from ...

COLOMBO - Sri Lanka’s new president Anura Kumara Dissanayake was confident ... referring to the National People’s Power ...

Sri Lanka’s new president has called for a snap general election today. Anura Dissanayake, 55, who took power in September on ...

Forming a part of the JVP’s violent history is the bombing of the Sri Lanka parliament on August 18, 1987, a period of political turmoil. By then, the JVP had launched its second armed rebellion, ...

Sri Lanka votes Thursday in a second national election in as many months with a deeply divided opposition struggling to recover from a crushing defeat at presidential polls. The snap parliamentary ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake won the presidential election on September 21 in a victory that marked a rejection of the ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake hopes to grab two-thirds of the legislature's 225 seats to press ahead with reforms after ...

Similarly, the NPP, which is led by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP or People’s Liberation Front), must now ... The two ...

In the history of the JVP, Dissanayake has played a particular role in its jettisoning of socialistic demagogy and ...

The JVP/NPP’s preparation to ban all strikes is a clear expression of the fascistic character of its program, which has ...

Sri Lanka votes today in a second national election in as many months with a deeply divided opposition struggling to recover ...

Sri Lanka's new leftist leader has drawn strong support from an unlikely source as he seeks to expand his three parliamentary ...