Dissanayake, 55, defeated President Ranil Wickremesinghe, whose party was accused of leading the country into an economic crisis. The new leader's party is the People's Liberation Front, a Marxist ...

In countries dominated by Marxist parties, the faith is largely cant, the conventional wisdom, though it would be wrong to assume that such a role has no significance.

Thousands of police officers were deployed to reinforce security throughout the country. Even the sale of alcohol was prohibited. In Sri Lanka, shaken by its worst economic crisis, violence, and ...

Some Western visitors have remarked that Yugoslavia is a 100% Marxist country—50% Karl and 50% Groucho. With comic indecision, its economic planners have bobbed between ironhanded Communist ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake won Sri Lanka’s presidential election, the Election Commission announced Sunday, after voters rejected the old political guard ...

Investors worry that Marxist-leaning Dissanayake’s desire to revisit the terms of the country’s IMF bailout could delay future disbursements, and that he could seek to renegotiate a debt deal ...