MASS STORMING OF PRESIDENTIAL PALACE FORCES GOTABAYA RAJAPAKSA OUT OF POWER

The revolution continues, the whole system has to go! Fast-paced events in crisis-ridden Sri Lanka have taken yet a new turn today, Saturday 9 July, as hundreds of thousands of

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APPOINTMENT OF RANIL WICKREMESINGHE WILL NOT FIX ANYTHING

After weeks of mass protests, strikes, and general strikes across Sri Lanka, which included earlier this week an elementary explosion of popular fury at the country’s ruling elite following a

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PM RESIGNS AFTER COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY ASSAULT PROVOKES FURIOUS RESPONSE

Events have taken a frenetic pace in Sri Lanka over the last 72 hours. Nothing short of a revolutionary crisis has developed, one that is likely to be a forerunner

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HISTORIC “HARTAL” GRINDS SRI LANKA TO A HALT

Responding to a joint appeal issued by over 2,000 trade unions, a countrywide ‘Hartal’ (total strike) brought Sri Lanka to a halt today, Friday 6th. The hartal, the largest in

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MASSES REVOLT AGAINST CONSEQUENCES OF FAILING SYSTEM

In late 2019 and in 2020, the Rajapaksa family scored convincing victories in both presidential and parliamentary elections in Sri Lanka. As we explained then, this was a call for

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