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Debt-ridden Sri Lanka appointed 9 new Cabinet ministers on Friday in an effort to ensure stability until a full Cabinet is formed in the island nation engulfed in the worst economic crisis since its independence.

Former minister Nimal Siripala de Silva representing Sri Lanka Freedom party (SLFP), independent MPs Susil Premajayantha, Wijayadasa Rajapaksha, Tiran Alles were among the new nine ministers sworn-in on Friday by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.

Four ministers have already been sworn-in last week.

The cabinet will be limited to 25 members, including the President and the Prime Minister, according to media reports.

In those elections, a minority of the LSSP had split and joined the SLFP. There is a constant pressure from capitalist society against being organised in a revolutionary party. Also, the temptation to join a “bigger force” is a factor as well as individuals believing that they stand for socialist policies despite joining establishment forces.

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Long before the entrenchment of Tamil nationalism as a political force and the cultural expression of the Tamils in the 1950s, Marxism and left wing politics had enjoyed widespread  popularity among the Sri Lankan literati, dating from the ’30s. The Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP) was formed in 1935. Owing to ideological differences, a breakaway group, the United Socialist Party was formed in 1940 and it was renamed the Communist Party of Ceylon in 1943. There was a strong left political and cultural tradition among the Tamils from the late 1930s. A. Vaithialingam, P. Kandiah, M. Karthikesan and N. Shanmugathasan were some of the founders of the communist movement inSri Lankaand among the Tamils. The impact of Marxist ideology on Sri Lankan Tamil literature can be seen from the late 1940s. A.N. Kandasamy and K. Ganesh were the pioneers of progressive writing in Tamil. The Progressive Writers’ Association was formed in 1946 on the initiative of K. Ganesh and P. Ramanathan and it was reactivated in 1954. Ilankeeran, S. Ganesalingam, K. Daniel, Dominic Jeeva, N. K. Ragunathan and Neervai Ponnaiyan were the prominent writers who wrote fiction in the ’50s and ‘60s on the themes of class and caste contradictions from an avowedly Marxist perspective. There was an important change in the political content of Sri Lankan Tamil poetry during the 1960s and 1970s. Marxist or Socialist ideals were in the foreground of the literary activities in Tamil during this period owing to the change in the political climate in the country. Marxism and Maoism were playing a prominent role in the post-colonialThird Worldduring this period, in the struggle against imperialism and its local allies.Sri Lankawas not an exception to this political trend. In the ’60s, the left parties that chose the parliamentary path to socialism joined the major Sinhala nationalist party, the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) to form a coalition, and this came to power in 1970. The numerically minority Maoist groups which rejected the parliamentary path to socialism adopted Mao’s concept of New Democracy and propagated a revolutionary path to achieve socialism through uniting workers and peasants across ethnic boundaries. It was during this period that thousands of Sinhala youth, mainly from the rural poor in Sri Lanka, took up arms to topple the government, many sacrificing their lives for their revolutionary idealism. Most of the writers and poets were under the influence of socialist ideals in varying degrees and aligned with or were sympathetic to the left movements. They identified themselves as progressive writers. The Sri Lanka Progressive Writers’ Association played a leading role in propagating Marxist ideals in Tamil literature. They believed in social equity, ethnic integration and national unity. They also firmly believed that socialism was the only solution to the ethnic conflict. Social issues such as caste oppression, class contradiction and economic exploitation were some of the main themes in Tamil fiction and poetry during this period. Pasupathy, Supaththiran, Puthuvai Ratnathurai, Saarumathi, Shanmugam Sivalingam and S. Sivasegaram were the prominent poets of the communist movement of this period. They thought that the proletariat would unite across ethnic boundaries on the basis of class consciousness and fight for their liberation. The following poem by Puthuvai Ratnathurai is an example of their writing. Podimenike will take up the gun in Matara Kandiah will take up the rod in Mathakal Cassim Lebbe will take up the knife in Nathandi The unwilting philosophy of Karl Marx will guide them The toiling proletariat will reach the heights Definitely, wait and see! Here the personal names Podimenike, Kandiah and Cassim Lebbe symbolize the working class of the Sinhala, Tamil and Muslim ethnic groups, respectively, and the poet proclaims that they will join hands to establish the socialist state.

— Ethnic Conflict And Literary Perception: Tamil Poetry In Post-Colonial Sri Lanka

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شبكة المدار الأعلامية الأوروبية …_أعلنت نقابتي التعليم CGSP-Enseignement و SLFP-Enseignement الاثنين الانسحاب من عمل ميثاق   في التدريس ، بعد رفض منتسبيهم للمشروع المعدل لتقييم التدريس المقدم من قبل حكومة اتحاد والونيا-بروكسل FWB. لذلك قررت النقابتان في بيان صحفي مشترك إنهاء “مشاركتهما اعتبارًا من اليوم في أعمال اللجنة الاستشارية لميثاق التعليم المتميز”. بعد رفض النسخة الأخيرة من المسودة…

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பொருளாதார நெருக்கடிக்கு மத்தியில் அரசாங்கத்தை விரிவுபடுத்துவது தொடர்பில் இலங்கை ஜனாதிபதி ரணில் விக்கிரமசிங்க கடும் விமர்சனத்திற்கு உள்ளானார்

பொருளாதார நெருக்கடிக்கு மத்தியில் அரசாங்கத்தை விரிவுபடுத்துவது தொடர்பில் இலங்கை ஜனாதிபதி ரணில் விக்கிரமசிங்க கடும் விமர்சனத்திற்கு உள்ளானார்

மூலம் PTI கொழும்பு: இலங்கை அதிபர் ரணில் விக்ரமசிங்கே 37 இராஜாங்க அமைச்சர்களுடன் தனது அரசாங்கத்தை விரிவுபடுத்தியது மற்றும் தீவு நாடு திவாலாகி வரும் நேரத்தில் குறைந்தது 12 கேபினட் அமைச்சர்களை விரைவில் நியமிக்கும் நடவடிக்கைகளில் ஈடுபட்டுள்ளதால் எதிர்க்கட்சிகளின் விமர்சனத்திற்கு ஆளானார். ஆளும் ஸ்ரீலங்கா பொதுஜன பெரமுன (SLPP) மற்றும் ஸ்ரீலங்கா சுதந்திரக் கட்சியை (SLFP) பிரதிநிதித்துவப்படுத்தும் 37 இளைய…

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Dullas Alahapperuma

Mr. Dallas Alahapperuma Date of Birth 14-05-1959 Civil Status Married Religion Buddhism Profession / Occupation Journalist Political Career Treasurer of SLFP from 2005 – 2015; National Organizer of Joint Opposition from 2015 – 2020 ; District Leader for SLPP Matara from 2016 – Ongoing Academic Qualifications Received Honorary Doctorate for Education, Plymouth University, UK; G.C.E.…

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rajapaksa: President Rajapaksa swears in 8 more ministers amid Sri Lanka crisis, finance minister yet to be appointed - Times of India

rajapaksa: President Rajapaksa swears in 8 more ministers amid Sri Lanka crisis, finance minister yet to be appointed – Times of India

COLOMBO: Embattled Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Monday expanded the Cabinet with the induction of eight more ministers but he did not appoint a finance minister once again to handle the worst economic crisis facing the island nation. The new ministers belong to the ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) and its allies — the SLFP and the EPDP, a Tamil minority party in the north.…

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Prime Minister and SLFP to hold discussion

Prime Minister and SLFP to hold discussion

A special discussion between Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) is scheduled to be held this morning (16). The discussion will be held at 9.00 am today at the Prime Minister’s Office at Flower Road in Colombo. At the invitation of the Prime Minister, the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) had decided to support the formation of an all-party government. Former…

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SLF Darkwood Family Portrait - WotW Commission

L-R Back row: Valdo Middle row: Bruno, Thea (holding Socks the Dragon), Hal, Kai, Gulliver, Mimi, Aurie, Veremund, Spectral Winter Front row: Philomena, Adria (holding Nero the Dragon), Lucrezia, Rosa, Elsie (and the Rock Dragons)

Most of these are player characters from Weight of the World, the LARP I helped to run that finished earlier this year. This group ended up as an extended family group, centred roughly on Gulliver Darkwood (in the centre there). The family dynamic here led to a lot of interesting gameplay, and it was really neat to watch all these characters grow and change over the course of the game.

Unfortunately the original files are TOO BIG for tumblr, so these are smaller versions I saved from deviantart, so you should go there to see the full resolution versions. (full colour, sepia) [Image description: Two nearly identical images; the top one is in full colour and the bottom one is in sepia, like an old photograph. They are both cartoon illustrations of a group of people wearing fantasy and steampunk looking clothing. The dragons in the pictures are all about the size of large cats. The people have squishy looking bodies and large, round heads out of proportion with their bodies. Some of the people have extreme scars on their faces; some of them are metallic colours and have horns; one of them looks a bit like a ball bearing; one of them looks like she's made of stone and has gems in her face; and two of them have cat ears and are patterend after snow leopards. They're grouped up in four groups all clustered around one figure in the centre, seated on a chair. There's a group of five on the top left; below them is a group of three on the bottom left; on the top right are two pairs standing close to each other, and then on the bottom right one more pair of people.]

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[Sri Lanka] President agrees to form interim government with new PM, cabinet: Sirisena

[Sri Lanka] President agrees to form interim government with new PM, cabinet: Sirisena

#SootinClaimon.Com : ขอบคุณแหล่งข้อมูล : หนังสือพิมพ์ The Nation. https://www.nationthailand.com/international/40015134 President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has agreed to form an interim government with a new prime minister and cabinet of ministers, former president Maithripala Sirisena said on Friday (29). Sirisena’s Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), which recently quit the government, had a discussion…

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The Muslim writers and poets too were affected by this trend to varying degrees. Prominent writers like Ilankeeran, H. M. P. Mohideen and Abudalib Abdul Latheef who started writing in the 1950s had close associations with the island’s communist parties, as editors of their Tamil journals. When the communist movement ideologically broke into two camps in the mid ’60s, Ilankeeran and Mohideen aligned themselves with the Maoist wing while Latheef remained with the Moscowwing. All had affiliations with the Progressive Writers’ Association. Most of the Muslim writers and poets of the younger generation also reflected this trend. Maruthoor Koththan, Maruthoor Gani, and several others from the East had sympathies with Maoist ideology and wrote poems and short stories on the theme of class contradiction and social change. I too wrote poetry and other works of this nature during this period.  A. Iqbal, Fazeel Kariyapper and S. L. M. Haneefa from the same region, M.H.M. Shams and Dikwallai Kamal from the South, M.L.M. Mansoor and Pannamathu Kavirayar from the Central Province wrote poems or short stories on social themes under the influence of socialist ideology. Dr. Badiuddin Mahmud, a prominent Muslim political leader and one of the founding members of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), who hailed from the South and who was left leaning, organized a new political party, the Islamic Socialist Front, putting forward the new concept of Islamic Socialism in the early 1970s to draw the attention of the younger generation of the Muslim left in order to get their support for the SLFP. His party also published a Tamil weekly Insaan and most of the writers of the younger generation contributed to it. Many of these poets and writers tried to maintain a Muslim identity with left political ideology, not strictly Marxist, although a few of them identified themselves as secular writers leaning towards Marxism. This trend of active participation of the Muslim left in politics and literature almost came to an end when Muslim identity politics reached a peak in the 1980s because of two distinct political developments, namely, the emergence of separatist politics with the Tamil militant movements in the North and East, and the emergence in West Asia of Islamism as a global political force contesting Western imperial power and domination. The Sri Lankan Muslim left had to choose either to involve itself in Muslim ethnic politics or to remain silent.

— Ethnic Conflict And Literary Perception: Tamil Poetry In Post-Colonial Sri Lanka

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