https://internationalviewpoint.org/ International Viewpoint, the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International, is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of the globe. Correspondents in over 50 countries report on popular struggles, and the debates that are shaping the left of tomorrow. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://internationalviewpoint.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH25/siteon0-da713.png?1745245334 https://internationalviewpoint.org/ 25 144 https://internationalviewpoint.org/Can-the-Frontline-Socialist-Party-revive-the-left https://internationalviewpoint.org/Can-the-Frontline-Socialist-Party-revive-the-left 2012-04-17T10:24:45Z text/html en K Govindan, Niel Wijethilake New parties of the left Sri Lanka <p>More than 5,000 people packed Colombo's Sugathadasa stadium for the inaugural conference of the <i>Peratugami Samajawadi Pakshaya</i> (Frontline Socialist Party – FSP) on 9 April 2012. Most were members and sympathisers of this new Left party – a breakaway from the <i>Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna</i> (Peoples' Liberation Front – JVP); but many representatives of other radical Left parties, Left intellectuals, and progressive social activists were also in attendance. The emergence and consolidation of the FSP is an important and hopeful development for the revival of peoples' movements in Sri Lanka in the post-war era, following decades of retreat of the labour and left movements.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV447-April-2012-" rel="directory">IV447 - April 2012</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-New-parties-of-the-left-+" rel="tag">New parties of the left</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Sri-Lanka-+" rel="tag">Sri Lanka</a> https://internationalviewpoint.org/The-tsunami-one-year-after https://internationalviewpoint.org/The-tsunami-one-year-after 2006-01-24T19:28:39Z text/html en Niel Wijethilake Sri Lanka <p>On December 26 2005, Sri Lankans commemorated the first anniversary of the disastrous Tsunami that brought fear and devastation that will remain and haunt their minds for many years to come. The Tsunami not only washed away human lives and homes but also represented a thundering blow to the economy that may take several decades to rebuild.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV374-January-2006-" rel="directory">IV374 - January 2006</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Sri-Lanka-+" rel="tag">Sri Lanka</a>