The JVP, which led armed insurrections in 1971 and 1987 that left some 80,000 people dead, has since joined mainstream ...

Sri Lanka’s new leftist leader, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, seeks to expand his parliamentary seats with backing from ...

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

JVP/NPP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake, who was elected as Sri Lankan president on September 21, has immediately congratulated Trump for his election victory. His message is an assurance his JVP ...

Gunawardena said so over the weekend in response to a query posed by The Island. He said the NPP and JVP could be taking contradictory positions on this issue as the latter repeatedly assured the ...

The JVP offshoot, Frontline Socialist Party (FSP) has accused the JVP-led NPP of having scheduled the parliamentary contest in such a way that the November Heroes’ Day (13 Nov.) falls during the ...

Our team of reporters who fanned out to the cities and the countryside have the following conclusions: (1) those new voters of the JVP/NPP are not particularly impressed with the per-formance of the ...

Explaining this phenomenon was Chandrasiri Alahakoon, 40 years a JVP activist and now in charge of the NPP office in Chilaw. “People are now aware of our policies. Hence, we do not have to go through ...

comes to an end to canvas votes for his Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)-led National People’s Power (NPP) alliance. In a well-attended meeting, he said Indian fishermen were destroying the ...

He then served as a JVP national organizer and an executive committee member of the NPP. That is his political journey. Neither have I changed my family name nor have I done politics because of my ...

But the president is not on the ballot this time and the NPP is filled with JVP candidates that people are unfamiliar with. So, many of these voters are unlikely to vote for the NPP given its tilt ...

Sri Lankan President Dissanayake and his JVP/NPP administration live in fear of a re-eruption of the multi-million strong movement of workers and the oppressed masses that emerged in 2022 against ...