Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s call for unity amid ethnic divisions and pro-people economic reforms resonate on the island.

The Marxist lawmaker who won Sri Lanka’s presidency faces a key challenge in how to balance ties with his country’s two most ...

The election of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake as Sri Lanka’s executive president is a major ...

In the first Presidential election since the turmoil of 2022, Sri Lankans voted for a decisive change electing Marxist ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake may lack the political lineage of some of his rivals, but his leftist anti-poverty policies and ...

The dramatic increase in the vote for the JVP/NPP is a product of two inter-related processes—the seething hostility and ...

Sri Lanka's Marxist-leaning leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) party will be sworn in as the ...

The Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) has vowed to cancel Adani Group’s wind power project in Sri Lanka if it wins the upcoming presidential election. JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake ...

In what promises to be a closely contested fight, Sajith Premadasa, formerly of United National Party, and Anura Kumara Dissanayake of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna. Incumbent President Ranil ...

The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) has severely condemned the remarks made by Northern Province Chief Minister C.V. Vigneswaran at a rally held in Jaffna last week, in a bid to spread racism.

While neither represents the SLFP or the UNP directly, Dissanayake’s National People’s Power (NPP) is rooted in the center-left political tradition, with the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP ...

President Ranil Wickremesinghe emphasized that his White Paper proposal to introduce English education for all school students was obstructed by the JVP’s opposition, depriving many young Sri Lankans ...