Ahilan Kadirgamar on Left Discourse -‘Sri Lanka and the Global Economy: ECTA, FDI and other options organized by Socialist Study Circle, held on Friday, 11 March 2016 at the Sama Samaja Piyasa සමාජවාදී අධ්ය්යන කවයේ සංවිධානයෙන් පසුගිය මාර්තු 11 දින සම සමාජ පියසේ දී වමේ කතිකාව: ශ්රී ලංකාව හා ගෝලීය ආර්ථිකය:ඊසීටීඒ,විදේශ ආයෝජන හා අනෙකුත් විකල්ප…
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On The Politics of Memory and a Critique of Transitional Justice – Ahilan Kadirgamar
Ahilan Kadirgamar on The Politics of Memory and a Critique of Transitional Justice at the seminar held on On Wednesday 3rd June 2015 at the Department of Political Science and Public Policy University of Colombo Ahilan Kadirgamar is a PhD candidate at the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY) and a member of…
A Call for Community Consultations before proceeding with the 65,000 Housing Project
We further request the Government to commence such community consultations as a matter of urgency on what type of housing the war affected communities are seeking. Such community consultations will highlight pressing issues such as landlessness and solutions to resolve issues arising through owner driven housing. We further reiterate to use the Rs. 136 billion…
People should have the “Right and Space for Participation” in Constitution Making
The parliament will establish a Committee of Parliament on 09 January, according to the Order Book No.01 issued on 21 December, 2015 that will consist of members of parliament and will be called the “Constitutional Assembly”. Purpose of this Constitutional Assembly is spelled out as [quote] deliberating and seeking the views and advice of the…
The Left and Mass Media in the 20th Century – Ajith Samaranayake
“Today, moreover when the newspapers have become more subtle and trivial in their handling of politics (throwing open their columns to guest writers of the extra-parliamentary Left such as Dr. Vickramabahu Karunaratne) while peddling political gossip rather than issues; and television talk-shows figure all kinds of political opinion straddling the entire spectrum of ideas (if…
On Religion and Violence by Charles Taylor
The 20th century has been marked in a horrifying way by “categorical violence”-a violence directed against people on the basis of their belonging to a certain group. Categorical violence has three distinguishing features: excessiveness, the discourse of purification and a ritual element. There are two views of the cause of categorical violence which I wish…



