by polity.lk | Mar 24, 2023 | Discussion
Seminar series on Critical Agrarian Studies 2023, Seminar 02- “Is the Agrarian Question Dead? Theory, Tendencies and Praxis”, a talk by Dr. Kalpa Rajapaksha “Is the Agrarian Question Dead? Theory, Tendencies and Praxis” The Critical Agrarian Studies seminar series of...
by polity.lk | Mar 14, 2023 | Statement
International Women’s Day: Sri Lankan Women Demand Democracy, Economic Justice, and Freedom Feminist Collective for Economic Justice Working women are bearing the debt burden! In 1908, 15,000 working women marched through New York City demanding decent working hours,...
by polity.lk | Mar 2, 2023 | News
Experts’ Panel to hear testimonies of Sex Workers from seven districts in Sri Lanka A brief report Sex Workers and Allies South Asia (SWASA), Sri Lanka In a first ever effort jointly organized by the Sex Workers and Allies South Asia (SWASA), Sri Lanka and the Social...
by polity.lk | Feb 22, 2023 | Intervention
The Left’s Choice: Revival or Surrender Devaka Gunawardena Two responses to my recent piece, “Resisting the Nationalist Right’s Framing of the Economic Alternative,” have appeared. One is by Uditha Devapriya and another, here in Polity, is by Shiran Illanperuma....
by polity.lk | Feb 15, 2023 | Review
Slave in a Palanquin: Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka. Nira Wickramasinghe. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020 Reviewed by Paul D. Halliday “I understood I was to be carried to the country [to] which the ship was going, which was inhabited by...
