Anura Kumara Dissanayake on his way to deliver the 2026 Budget speech - video screenshot via X Via the Communist Party of Sri Lanka Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s 2026 Budget speech, while breaking symbolically from tradition, reveals a deeper continuity with neoliberal orthodoxy and IMF-aligned fiscal governance. Beneath the rhetoric of “economic democracy” lies a technocratic document that prioritises lender confidence over public empowerment, and party consolidation over struc

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Anura Kumara Dissanayake speaks on the morning of the election -- image via X By Shiran Illanperuma On October 15, data from the Election...