by polity.lk | Dec 18, 2023 | Essay
Budget 2024: ‘Deep Marketisation’ in Sri LankaB. Skanthakumar Ranil Wickremesinghe’s Budget for 2024 had safe passage on third reading on 13 December as expected, with a majority of 41 votes in the 225-member legislature. The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP—People’s...
by polity.lk | Dec 4, 2023 | Intervention
2024 and Beyond: Electoral Politics and the LeftDevaka Gunawardena Amid a suffocating consensus on austerity, any opportunity to expand on the current stakes of Left strategy in Sri Lanka must be seen as a small victory. The debate provoked by my original piece,...
by polity.lk | Nov 20, 2023 | Intervention
Why 2024 Will Not Be 2015 Redux Ramindu Perera Amidst the woes of a deepening economic crisis and the disastrous effect of International Monetary Fund-dictated austerity measures, Sri Lanka is passing through a tremendous political crisis. On the one hand, the...
by polity.lk | Oct 30, 2023 | Essay
Fault Lines in Indian Agriculture: Solidarities and Contradictions in Southern HaryanaSrishti Yadav November 2023 marks three years of the historic farmers’ protests in India that captured the imagination of people in India and around the world; and two years since...
by polity.lk | Oct 23, 2023 | Essay
Reflections on Critical Agrarian Studies in Sri LankaUrs Geiser In this essay, my aim is to reflect on the situation in Sri Lanka’s agrarian sphere, through the gaze of ‘critical agrarian studies’.[i] I begin with a glance at related discourses during the 1970s and...
