The editorial for the forthcoming print issue of @politylk.bsky.social (Vol 13 No 1, June 2025) is online . It is about the new world disorder.

#SriLanka #liberalinternationalism

The #NPP's idée fixe on #corruption irritated me into reading the #IMF and #CSO governance reports on #SriLanka, to understand the politics behind their respective diagnostics and prescriptions.

The link is available here linktr.ee/politylk

"China's approach to the global governance of sovereign debt distress"

Talk by Prof Shahar Hameiri (UQ, Australia) in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Tuesday 28 January 2025, 5pm at the Social Scientists' Association.

Ambalavaner Sivanandan passed away in London on Jan 03 2018. Last month (Dec 20) was his 100th birth anniversary.

I wrote on the significance of his thinking and writing in 'The Bullet' (Toronto) shorturl.at/droNB, later published in print @politylk.bsky.social online shorturl.at/2EUlr

𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐓𝐮𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐥𝐞 𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐭

𝐍𝐚𝐳𝐚𝐧 Ü𝐬𝐭ü𝐧𝐝𝐚ğ 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐦 𝐘ö𝐫ü𝐤

Monday, 16 Dec 2024
430pm - 630pm
Social Scientists' Association, 380/86, Sarana Road,
Colombo 07
Sri Lanka

Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) statement 03 Dec 2024 on Declaration of Martial Law by Yoon Suk-yeol

#SouthKorea #autogolpe #democracy #labourmovement

P. Sainath (People's Archive on Rural India) is speaking in Colombo on Wednesday 4th December at the Social Scientists' Association on India's 'Agrarian Crisis in the Age of Inequality'.

From a political earthquake in September to a political tsunami in November, I write for Jacobin (US) on the JVP-NPP's parliamentary landslide in #SriLanka



#Politics #GeneralElection2024 #Left #JVP #NPP #AKD

Date: 19 November 2024
Time:5-6.30pm, India Standard Time (IST)
Link:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83684654381?pwd=MjTvQlWUxPCkRBVSfK6BFUs3e6xrqQ.1

General election in #SriLanka today. Will voters sweep clean the parliament, permanently retiring traditional politicians?