By Jayadeva Uyangoda. April 16, 2022 After 31st March, 2022, Sri Lanka’s politics is no longer what it has been. It seems to have entered a qualitatively new phase. It is…
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Sri Lanka: Diverse but determined; the people keep coming to Galle Face
By Namini Wijedasa and Tharushi Weerasinghe. April 17, 2022 Hunched over a parcel of rice and curry, five adults and a child share a meal on Galle Face Green. It’s…
Sri Lanka: No agreement with the IMF!
Eric Toussaint interviewed by Sushovan Dhar. 15 April 2022 A Sri Lankan delegation will travel to Washington next week to try to secure up to $4 billion from the International…
For Arms Manufacturers, the War in Ukraine Is a Profits Bonanza
By Gilbert Achcar. April 5, 2022 Not even 1 percent of NATO military hardware will actually be used to help Ukraine. But the Russian invasion has provided a pretext for…
Contemptuous Denial of Agency in the Name of Geopolitics and/or Peace
By: Gilbert Achcar. April 13, 2022 The antiwar anti-imperialist left worldwide has been deeply divided on the war in Ukraine along quite unusual lines, due to the novelty of the situation…
Against Mearsheimer
By Sorin Gog. April 14, 2022 Leftists with a preference for grand narratives and easy answers love the realist geopolitical explanations of Mearsheimer. So does much of the far right….
“Never Again” in thirty languages. Daria Serenko on why Russian feminists can’t stop protesting
By Daria Serenko. April 6, 2022. The day after the start of the “special operation”, the Feminist Anti-War Resistance (FAS) appeared – a semi-partisan activist movement that launches anti-war actions…
Canada Is Happy to Provide Ukraine With Weapons — But Not Debt Relief
By Yves Engler. April 12, 2022 Although Ukraine is hobbled by the debt it owes its international creditors, Canada’s support for the country does not include any debt relief. It…
The Feminist Face of Russian Protests
By The Moscow Times. March 29, 2022 More and more women in Russia are taking to the streets in protests. On Feb. 23, Daria Serenko, a Moscow political activist, was…
Sri Lanka: #GoHomeGota, ‘the struggle’ and the rhetoric
By Erandika de Silva. April 12, 2022 I use the hashtag #GoHomeGota to mark this watershed moment in Sri Lanka’s postcolonial history. It is in honour of the people who…