by polity.lk | Jul 15, 2024 | Politics
Sri Lanka’s Pre-Presidential Election Politics: Uncertainty or Turmoil? Jayadeva Uyangoda The coming few months have the potential to produce major political changes in Sri Lanka. The presidential election is constitutionally due to be held on a date decided by the...
Anatomy of a Protest and Aragalaya Cinema
Hiranyada Dewasiri
by polity.lk | Jul 9, 2024 | Politics
Anatomy of a Protest and Aragalaya Cinema Hiranyada Dewasiri The 2022 people’s uprising and occupation movement in Sri Lanka, widely known as the Aragalaya, was heavily documented through film. This material has begun returning to the public in the form of documentary...
The conjuncture in the crisis
B. Skanthakumar
by polity.lk | Jul 1, 2024 | Politics
The conjuncture in the crisis B. Skanthakumar “Aaranchiya Subhai!” (‘Await Good News’) read posters plastered across the country recently. It was the build-up to Ranil Wickremesinghe’s televised speech on June 26, passing off a bad deal with official creditors on debt...
Ukraine: A People’s Peace, not an Imperial Peace
Bewegung für den Sozialismus/Mouvement pour le Socialisme (Switzerland), solidaritéS (Switzerland), Sotsialnyi Rukh (Ukraine), Posle Media Collective (Russia), emanzipation – Zeitschrift für ökosozialistische Strategie (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)
by polity.lk | Jun 24, 2024 | Politics
Ukraine: A People’s Peace, not an Imperial Peace Bewegung für den Sozialismus/Mouvement pour le Socialisme (Switzerland), solidaritéS (Switzerland), Sotsialnyi Rukh (Ukraine), Posle Media Collective (Russia), emanzipation – Zeitschrift für ökosozialistische...
Authoritarian Populism in the Global South
Alf Gunvald Nilsen
by polity.lk | Jun 10, 2024 | Politics
Authoritarian Populism in the Global South Alf Gunvald Nilsen During the 2010s, many states across the global South turned decisively to the right. Foreshadowed by the rise of Recep Erdogan in Turkey in the early 2000s, a wave of authoritarian populism swept...
#GoHomeGota: The Story Behind Sri Lanka’s Hashtagged Protest Movement. Sulochana Peiris. 2023. 51 minutes
Oliver Walton, Deborah Johnson, and Jonathan Goodhand
by polity.lk | May 9, 2024 | Politics
#GoHomeGota: The Story Behind Sri Lanka’s Hashtagged Protest Movement. Sulochana Peiris. 2023. 51 minutes Oliver Walton, Deborah Johnson, and Jonathan Goodhand #GoHomeGota is a documentary by Colombo-based freelance filmmaker and writer Sulochana Peiris that explores...