Balasingham Skanthakumar is with the Social Scientists Association in Sri Lanka. In the early 1990s, he was the first black students officer at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. His publications include “Labour’s lost agency,” Himal Southasian, March 2015; Pathways of the Left in Sri Lanka (co-editor), EISD, Colombo 2014; and “Growth with Inequality: Neoliberal Authoritarianism in Sri Lanka,” LST Review, 2013. He can be contacted via email at skanthakumarb@gmail.com.
“The Canary in the Coal Mine”: Sri Lanka’s Crisis is a Chronicle Foretold
Britain's Socialist Left in the Election
Against the Current, No. 94, September/October 2001
Melbourne: WEF Meets Real World
Against the Current, No. 89, November/ December 2000
The Remaking of the Congo
Against the Current, No. 69, July/August 1997
Kabila's Friends
Against the Current, No. 69, July/August 1997
Mobutu's Loot and the Congo's Debt
Against the Current, No. 69, July/August 1997
The Roots of the Rebellion
Against the Current, No. 69, July/August 1997
Humanitarian Intervention
Against the Current, No. 69, July/August 1997
Mining Congo's Wealth
Against the Current, No. 69, July/August 1997
The AFDL and Its Program
Against the Current, No. 69, July/August 1997