Statements

We are in the midst of an existentially threatening economic crisis. With an ever-increasingdebt burden and low economic prospects, we continue to grapple with uncertain economicfutures and related social and political distresses. As university teachers, we are concernedabout the multiplicity of recent proposals seeking reforms in education that threaten to bringabout a sea change in

Sri Lanka is in the middle of a dire economic crisis. We are witness to the new depths of misery
that the people have been plunged into. Working people are the hardest hit, who have had to
grapple with precarious wages, job insecurity and the devastation of an economic depression.

At the May Day rally of the UNP, Minister of Labour and Foreign Employment Manusha Nanayakkara presented a 11-point agenda reforming the existing regime of labour laws which propose to tilt the balance of power further in favour of employers. Nanayakara’s proposals, the most elaborate so far, are at best sketchy and, at worst, spell