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Trial of a Revolution - Sri Lanka Guardian
Memories from the 71 insurrection in Ceylon Latest from Blog by Our Correspondent in Doha The Middle East crisis escalated dramatically on Sunday as US President The following account draws from a series of letters exchanged between Rohana Wijeweera’s mother, his younger As the war in Iran entered its fifth week, an unexpected front began to take shape—not In the bustling streets of Thiruvananthapuram, still widely known as Trivandrum, red flags ripple through dense In a quiet suburb just north of Paris, a three-year-old girl’s distress has become emblematic of The skies over Iran, long dominated by overwhelming American and allied airpower, became a deadly trap The race for time has found a new frontier in Miami, where the world’s wealthiest are It is no longer credible to treat Afghanistan’s terrorism problem as a purely internal Afghan matter. Iran’s war effort is no longer limited to Tehran’s own forces. Across the Middle East, the A Movement Born in the Margins Many of us shaped by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)
From Liberation To Governance: The JVP's Promise & Sri Lanka's Test
By Lionel Bopage – Dr. Lionel Bopage A Movement Born in the Margins Many of us shaped by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) in the late 1960s and 1970s carry convictions that have never fully faded. We were young and angry at inequality. We were incensed by colonial economic legacies that persisted long after independence. We believed Sri Lanka’s people deserved far better — socially, economically, and politically. Today, a party grown from those roots governs the country. The question before us is not whether we have arrived at the destination, but whether we are truly on the right path. The JVP was founded in April 1965 in a working-class home in Akmeemana, Galle. A twenty-two-year-old Rohana Wijeweera gathered seven others for a discussion that would alter Sri Lankan political history. After studying at the Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow, comrade Rohana grew disillusioned with Soviet ideology and with the class-compromising tendencies of the established left. He concluded that no existing socialist formation had the revolutionary will to transform Sri Lankan society. The JVP identified the rural proletariat as a necessary foundation of genuine social transformation. Its constituency was the likes of agricultural labourers, the unemployed youth, and the Sinhala-speaking school-leavers with a certificate but no prospects. The movement’s founding ideology rested on anti-imperialism, economic self-sufficiency, independence from Cold War superpowers, a commitment to incorruptibility, and a vision of national unity under socialist governance. The 1971 insurrection was militarily defeated within weeks. Yet it announced the arrival of a new political force. This force was rooted not in Colombo drawing rooms but in southern villages. After surviving proscription, imprisonment, and the devastating second insurrection of 1987 to 1989 — which ended with the extrajudicial killing of approximately 60,000 people, including most prominent leaders and comrade Rohana — the JVP committed to parliamentary democracy. The path from 1965 to 2024 is extraordinary: from an underground revolutionary cell to a governing coalition with a two-thirds parliamentary majority. Economic Inheritance and Challenges The NPP government did not inherit a stable country. The 2022 sovereign default left deep scars. Inflation peaked at 70 percent. Foreign reserves collapsed. The social fabric frayed under severe hardship. By early 2026, macroeconomic indicators had stabilised. Inflatio...
Publications of the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences commenced operating together with the establishment of the Ruhuna University College as an affiliation to the University of Colombo. When the University of Ruhuna appeared as a fully-fledged university, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences underwent a radical change as an academic body. Currently, it remains as a well-established faculty ...
Veteran journalist Iqbal Athas of the Sunday Times passes away
The Political Editor of the Sunday Times and former Defence Correspondent Iqbal Athas passed away this morning, his family said. He was 81. As a Defence and Political Analyst with the career spanning nearly six decades, Mr Athas covered extensively on country's turning events in its recent history from 1971 insurrection by then Peoples Liberation front (JVP) till Tamil separatist war that came ...
