Fair is Foul — IMF Budget Unleashed
IMF led austerity budget has unveiled in Sri Lanka An IMF authorised budget has been unleashed on Sri Lanka. In the budget speech there was an attempt to use a paltry list of...
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Dheepan: Undermined By Disregard For Detail & Talent
COLOMBO TELEGRAPH Dheepan has both collected the Palm d’Or at Cannes and caused controversy among Tamils. This is particularly so among Tamil writers given that the leading actor is a well-known writer in Tamil....
Army, Cannons & The Constitution
COLOMBO TELEGRAPH “You see, gentlemen, a king whom the army and cannons obey – this is part of a constitution!” Ferdinand Lassalle once said. Lassalle, writing in 1862, was theorising at the time of...
Tamils’ Meeting Shows Continuing Rift In Labour Party Regarding Foreign Policy
COLOMBO TELEGRAPH Tamils for Labour organised what was probably its biggest ever meeting on 11/04/2016. The main attraction for the 400+ people in attendance – many of whom were young Tamils – was the...
Clever-Sounding Capitulation Of TNA & Moderates
COLOMBO TELEGRAPH The West’s conscious promotion of ‘moderates’ The brutal end of the war in 2009 had demoralised en masse not just the Tamils living in Sri Lanka but also those in the diaspora....
UNHRC report is a failure for lobbyists – We need a new strategy to build the struggle
Published: September 17, 2015 Posted in: Articles Tags: UNHRC report is a failure for lobbyists – We need a new strategy to build the struggle Print it Email This PostDigg it!Facebook Both the Sri...
Anti-Austerity Victory Poses Challenge For Right-Wing Tamil Leadership
COLOMBO TELEGRAPH Did Labour lose the general election in Britain because it was too left-leaning as was claimed by the party’s then leadership ? This question has now been decisively answered by left-winger Jeremy Corbyn’s...
Struggle From Below Is What’s Bring Changes
COLOMBO TELEGRAPH In 1977 the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) won a landslide in the Tamil areas with 18 seats and become the main opposition party, the first Tamil party to do so. This...
Prepare For TNA’s Capitulation
COLOMBO TELEGRAPH The sharpest criticism of the Tamil National alliance (TNA) to date comes from C. V. Wicgneswaran, the TNA’s Chief Minister of the Northern Province. His criticism can be summed up as follows: TNA...
Time To Say Enough Is Enough
COLOMBO TELEGRAPH ‘Reform’ could be the world’s most abused word. Its meaning was defined as “make changes in order to improve”. Now it has come to mean “to rip off, normally by stealth and...
