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With the university teachers on strike for over two months, what has been most impressive about this struggle is its national character and independence from party politics. The public debate created by the breadth and commitment of this struggle provides great hope for rethinking our political culture and people’s participation in shaping post-war Sri Lanka. We provide here a link toward the article published on "Larger Questions and Peripheral Engagement: Trade Unionism at Jaffna University" by Ahilan Kadirgamar in The Islandhttp://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&#38;page=article-details&#38;code_title=61611source: The Island