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By Uditha Devapriya In a penetrating analysis in Jacobin Magazine, Assistant Professor of History at the University of California Irvine, James Robertson, diagnoses the problems of Yugoslav socialism. For Robertson, Yugoslavia during the Cold War, “represented to many a viable alternative to the Soviet model.” On June 28, 1948, the Cominform, the Stalinist alliance of […]
By Uditha Devapriya Lenin once remarked that there are decades when nothing happens, and weeks when decades happen. Much more than a decade passed last week at Galle Face. Beginning with Mahinda Rajapaksa’s desperate and disastrous attempt at retaining his premiership, events began to cascade, one after another. Praised by everyone, locally and internationally, for […]
By Uditha Devapriya In his recent work on D. S. Senanayake, K. M. de Silva explores certain controversial aspects of Ceylon’s lurch into independent statehood. Among these is the issue of the fate of the country’s Indian Tamils. Brought to the island from South India amidst conditions of famine and mass starvation in the early […]
By Uditha Devapriya “Churchill had only four members backing him in 1939. How did he become Prime Minister? Because of the crisis. I have done the same.” — Ranil Wickremesinghe to a British journalist, after his appointment The Constitution of Sri Lanka empowers the President to appoint as Prime Minister any MP who he feels […]
By Uditha Devapriya The protests at Galle Face have been continuing for more than a month now. Initially aimed against Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his band of brothers, the infiltration of certain groups has diluted the tone and trajectory of the demonstrations. Over the last few weeks, the country at large has taken part in one […]