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

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

“At this election, the NPP expects a mandate for a very strong majority in parliament,” he said, referring to the National ...

Sri Lanka on Thursday (Nov 14) voted in snap parliamentary elections, in which the new leftist President Anura Kumara ...

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 ...

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

Dissanayake's JVP, or the People's Liberation Front, is the main constituent of the National People's Power (NPP) coalition ...

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

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

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

On September 30, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) hosted the “Antisemitism 101” workshop in the Dining Center as part of Haverford’s Meeting the Moment initiative announced earlier ...

Forced into exile 25 years ago and compelled to stay away in order to stay alive, journalist D.B.S. Jeyaraj always dreamt of returning to Sri Lanka. That flame of hope flickered occasionally, as the ...