The 55-year-old pro-working class leader has said he will renegotiate the IMF deal to make austerity measures more bearable for the poor. A delegation of the National People’s Power, which has ...

The People’s Liberation Front, also known as Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, was a well-known political organisation ... n Internal Factors – Given that the new logo was created recently, it is clear that ...

Many months before the 2019 presidential election, a twosome from the top rungs of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) met a duo of their ... This is a prelude to legal action. The logo of the ...

This week’s announcement makes clear that the JVP/NPP administration will not hesitate to use the PTA and other repressive ...

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

In September, Sri Lankans broke their faith with the island’s political elites and elected left-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake, leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) and the National ...

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

Dissanayake, 55, has disowned the violent past of his Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna party and moved it ... featuring a hammer-and ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s electoral success was primarily due to the strategy he adopted when Sri Lanka faced an economic crisis and experienced a mass protest described as the Aragalaya or ...

whose party sports the hammer and sickle motif of the international communist movement in its logo. "In the first term (of Dissanayake), I would say that they will be far better than Vietnam in ...