JVP

“We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.” George Orwell. (The Adelphi – January 1939) “The first duty of the Memory Police was to ensure disappearances,” writes Japanese author Yoko Ogawa in her tale of an island where things disappear, and disappeared things cease […]

Image: Sajith Premadasa must get at least 75% of the Tamil vote to have a chance of winning.  By Professor S W R de A Samarasinghe. Only about three weeks remain before Sri Lankans go to the polls to elect a new president. The fight is between SLPP’s Gotabaya Rajapaksa and UNP’s Sajith Premadasa. JVP’s Anura […]

The JVP candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayake, supported by the National People’s Power (NPP), undoubtedly is well ahead of all other candidates in terms of ideas, principles and policies presented before the people at this election. Those are not just election promises or bogus gestures like what the other two main candidates have competitively put forward. […]

Image: Lal Wijenayake, secretary general of the ULF  has been a prominant speaker at Jathika Jana Balawegaya public meetings  for some time now. In an email Dr Jayampathy Wickramaratne, Member of Parliament and National Organizer, United Left Front has explained the position of  United Left Front regarding the up coming presidential election. The text of […]

MP Anura Kumara Dissanayake was announced as the Presidential Candidate of the political coalition, National People’s Power- NPP (ජාතික ජන බලවේගය) on 18th August 2019. As the presidential candidate for the coalition, his speech included a general vision for the future of the country that took a liberal position in terms of state policy, governance […]

Image: JVP led National People’s Power launched its campaign with a huge rally at Galle Face Green. With the nomination of Gotabaya Rajapaksa as its presidential candidate, the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) has officially launched its presidential election campaign. Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa who has remained a nominal member of the SLFP and the UPFA […]

Another story about ragging in universities had made headlines last week. 19 senior students of Ruhuna University were remanded after being arrested over an incident where a new student from Gampaha had been inhumanly tortured during ragging. They had been arrested after the victim student, seemingly a courageous boy had published the nightmare he had […]

Image: 1989 a woman walked passed a bodies of a massacre by JVP at Menikhinna. (Daily Mirror 29.02.19) In Anuruddha Jayasinghe’s Ginnen Upan Seethala, Kamal Addaraarachchi as Wijeweera gives life to a revolutionary on the run! All that the country needs now is a really honest hundred per cent corruption-free, dedicated leader who has democratic principles […]

If there is one question that troubles many rights activists in Sri Lanka today, it is the current political instability within the coalition Government led by Ranil Wickremesinghe and Maithripala Sirisena government and their seeming inability to stop the Joint Opposition, unofficially spearheaded by the Rajapaksa family, from capturing power again. Both President Sirisena and […]

The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) has been at a crucial turning point in its political career for some time. Its unending crisis has consequences for Sri Lankan democracy as well. As a political party, and with all its shortcomings and failures, the SLFP has contributed to institutionalizing Sri Lanka’s parliamentary democracy and consolidating the […]

Image: JVP general secretary Tilvin Silva. (LT/12 Feb 2018) “The votes for the JVP have increased proportionately as well as quantitatively. JVP Members have been elected towards that had never had a JVP Member. Several JVP Members have been elected to almost every council. There are certain councils in which five or six JVP Members […]

Harassing and assaulting a group of Rohingya refugees who had arrived from Myanmar and are temporarily settled under the care of UNHRC by a gang lead by Buddhist priests at Mt. Lavinia on the 26th is an act that should not have occurred in a civilized society that could never be approved by anyone and […]

by Vishwamithra. Rohana Wijeweera was a remarkable man. At the height of the cold war in the international arena, when the United States of America (USA) was in constant confrontation with the then Soviet Union (USSR) in every possible global forum, Wijeweera played his logical role as the leader of the first revolutionary political party […]

( Image from drama on sexual rights by Grass Rooted Trust, April 2016; ©s.deshapriya) Rights of people with different sexual orientations and gender identities became a much-debated topic in ethno-nationalist politics of Sri Lanka in recent years. Despite of the various evidence which suggests that homophobia is a colonial production, in today’s context in Sri […]

A survey carried out by www.manthri.lk web site states the group of JVP Parliamentarians is the most effective group of MPs in Parliament that acts according to people’s wishes. The web sites collects data regarding the manner MPs carry out their affairs in Parliament daily and five JVP Parliamentarians out of the six in Parliament […]

Comrade Somawansa Amarasinghe since joining the JVP in 1969, had been committed at that time to the political line of the JVP. I understand that while he was held in custody in Welikada prison for the April 1971 uprising, he had become estranged from the politics of the JVP. However, when he had been transferred […]

( Youth rebels in custody, 1971 May) The impulsion towards nationalist sentiment in politics, has in our view, exceedingly profound roots in the life style of the modern man, which makes for homogeneity of a single high culture within any political unit, and which condemns those not masters of the said culture, or unacceptable within […]

( JVP  led protest against corruption) “It is not necessary to conceal the mediation of the JVP to punish fraudsters and the corrupt. The JVP would take all necessary measures to take fraudsters who plundered public money and take back the public money they stole from the people,” said the Leader of the JVP Parliamentarian […]

R. Sampanthan, (MP,TNA) There was a reference by my Friend, the Hon. Anura Dissanayake, the leader of the JVP, to international involvement in the issues in Sri Lanka. He made an appeal to the TNA in particular, that we should not rush to India; we should not rush to the international community and solicit their […]

( Rohana Wijeweera) Somawansa Amarasinghe, the former leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)  says that  Rohana Wijeweera did not listen to security warnings by politburo members that he should no t go back to his residence just two days before his arrest and death. Amarasinghe says that even today he cannot understand why Wijeweeera took […]

Opposing the Hybrid Court System proposed by the UNHRC, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) yesterday stressed that justice for alleged war crime victims would be ensured only through a credible Domestic Inquiry into alleged war crimes. Addressing the media at the JVP office yesterday, Parliamentarian Vijitha Herath said there are no provisions within the constitution […]

 Says JVP has neglected family, children have no place to go and family has no faith in JVP Reveals children discriminated against as father is Wijeweera, therefore well-educated but jobless Accuses JVP of using family to build party image and JVP Leader Dissanayake of avoiding calls for help By Shanika Sriyananda Q: For how long you have you and […]

Many, this correspondent included, expected the JVP to poll well and win 10 to 15 parliamentary seats – some people said 20+ even when they were sober! On votes, yes expectations have been borne out (544,000, its second highest since 815,000 in 2001). On seats we were wrong because of inattention to nitty-gritty details; intra […]

The discarded defeated Leftists alias  ‘left garbage leftists’ say , what is necessary at this moment is not defeating Mahinda Rajapakse, rather sending more JVP members to parliament. However in the JVP publications there is nothing mentioning  this. In other words there is a  deceitful motive behind this theory: divide the anti  Rajapakse votes as […]

DSC_0020 The United National Front for Good Governance (UNFGG) and the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) released their manifestos this week, outlining their plans for the development of many sectors in the country, if they are elected to power. The UNFGG, in a programme to be implemented over a period of 60 months, pledged more jobs, […]

Minor parties today met Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and warned him that they will defeat the 20th Amendment to the Constitution if it is submitted to Parliament in its current form. Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake said that the minor parties have already agreed that there needs to be more discussions on […]

Conclusions of the presidential commission that inquired into the Matale mass grave are an insult to the professional experts who had carried out the investigation at the grave site, the experts allege. The two judicial and archaeological experts who supervised the digging of the grave have told JDS that they completely rejected the commission’s report. […]

The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) Leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake today charged that President Maithripala Sirisena was behind the statements made by Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka and MPs Anura Priyadarshana Yapa and Nimal Siripala de Silva against the 19th Amendment. “The silence of President Sirisena reflects that he is behind the attempts against the 19th Amendment. […]

[JVP leader Anura Kumara has emerged as the most popular anti corruption agitator ] by Lacille de Silva, (Former director (administration) parliament of Sri Lanka. The Committee on Public Enterprises, popularly known as COPE, had been established on 21st July, 1979 in our Parliament. The objective of the Committee from its inception had been to […]

The Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) and Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) have come to an agreement where the JVP would send its agents to polling booths on 8 January to monitor the polls. JHU General Secretary, Champika Ranawaka, speaking to Ceylon Today said it was…the JVP who could most successfully tackle the violence and intimidation at […]