His JVP party led two insurrections in 1971 and 1987 ... “The opposition is dead,” political analyst Kusal Perera said. “The ...

New Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's party was set for a landslide victory in snap legislative elections, ...

Says fear of losing elitist privileges has led some persons to consider a conspiracy to assassinate him Recalls party’s ...

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

Sri Lanka's new president Anura Kumara Dissanayake was confident of a victory as polls closed in Thursday's snap legislative ...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, whose Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) party had just three seats in the outgoing assembly ...

His JVP party led two insurrections in 1971 and 1987 ... “The opposition is dead,” political analyst Kusal Perera said. “The ...

Millions of Sri Lankans are voting on Thursday in snap parliamentary elections, weeks after the election of left-leaning ...

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

This enabled Anura to spearhead a commendable political renaissance of the JVP led NPP. As is well known , Anura Kumara Dissanayake finished first in the presidential election held on 24 September ...

Founded in 1965 by Rohana Wijeweera, the leftist JVP, the NPP’s main constituent party, is not a new political outfit. The ...

Molly Crabapple explains the radical history of the Jewish Labor Bund and what can be learned from the history of ...