Sri Lanka is expected to pay over 25% of its total revenue in debt servicing every year at a time when Ditwah, as per early estimates, caused damages worth 7 billion USD or around 7% of the country’s GDP.
Despite numerous splits, the socialist movement embedded itself in Sri Lankan society and made a lasting impact on the polity.
Cyclone Ditwah has caused devastating consequences for the island nation and brought to the fore new challenges to the debt-burdened country
Sri Lankan writer Shiran Illanperuma takes an intimate look at labor conditions in the island nation, from factories to plantations
A recent World Bank reports examines Sri Lanka’s austerity policies following the 2022 external debt default
Former Sri Lankan President and “avatar of neoliberalism” Ranil Wickremesinghe is being charged with misuse of public funds
The substitution of southern capital over northern capital alone may not resolve questions of viability, sustainability, or sovereignty.
Labor unions organized rallies in all major cities in the region raising major issues facing the working classes and extending solidarity to the anti-imperialist movements across the globe.
Sri Lanka’s participation in the Bandung Conference reveals that in many countries, it was the movements and organized left that pushed for South-South integration, in defiance of US imperialism
The evolution of Sri Lanka and India’s defense relations hearken back to Sirimavo Bandaranaike’s 1964 proposal for an Indian Ocean “zone of peace” to their recent defense cooperation.
Trump slapped a 44% tariff on Sri Lankan goods, as the country struggles to dig its way out of debt-fueled economic crisis
The maiden budget by Sri Lanka’s new government reflects the challenges that Global South countries face of overcoming IMF debt.






