Bolshevik–Leninist Party of India,Ceylon and Burma (BLPI) was a revolutionary Trotskyist party which campaigned for independence and socialism in South Asia. The party was formed in 1942 as a unification of two Indian groups,with the Lanka Sama Samaja Party of Ceylon. It was recognised as the Indian section of the Fourth International.
The Lanka Sama Samaja Party, often abbreviated as LSSP is a major Trotskyist political party in Sri Lanka. It was the first political party in Sri Lanka,having been founded in 1935 by Leslie Goonewardene,N.M. Perera,Colvin R. de Silva,Philip Gunawardena and Robert Gunawardena. It currently is a member of the main ruling coalition in the government of Sri Lanka and is headed by Tissa Vitharana. The party was founded with Marxist-Leninst ideals,and is classified as a party with Socialist aims.
Patabendi Don Jinadasa Nandasiri Wijeweera,was a Sri Lankan Marxist political activist,revolutionary and the founding leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna. Wijeweera led the party in two unsuccessful insurrections in Sri Lanka,in 1971 and 1987 to 1989.
The Ceylon Workers' Congress (CWC) is a political party in Sri Lanka that has traditionally represented Sri Lankan Tamils of Indian origin working in the plantation sector of the economy.
Peduru Hewage William de Silva was a 20th-century Marxist/Trotskyist Sri Lankan politician.
Nagalingam Shanmugathasan was a trade unionist and Maoist revolutionary leader in Sri Lanka. He was the General Secretary of the Ceylon Communist Party (Maoist)
Ceylon Communist Party (Maoist) is a political party in Sri Lanka. The party surged in 1964 following a split in the Ceylon Communist Party. Initially the party just called itself 'Ceylon Communist Party' as well,and was distinguished from the main CCP in Sri Lanka by denominations like 'Ceylon Communist Party ',etc. In the end of the 1960s the party was one of the major leftist parties in the country. Initially Party was led by Premalal Kumarasiri and N. Shanmugathasan.
Colvin Reginald de Silva was a Cabinet Minister of Plantation Industries and Constitutional Affairs,prominent member of parliament,Trotskyist leader and lawyer in Sri Lanka. He was one of the founders of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party –the first Marxist party in Sri Lanka.
During the Donoughmore period of political experimentation (1931–48),several Sri Lanka leftist parties were formed in British colonial Ceylon. Unlike most other Sri Lankan parties,these leftist parties were noncommunal in membership.
Don Philip Rupasinghe Gunawardena was a Sri Lankan Marxist politician and leftist. A founder of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party,the first political party in Ceylon which was known for having introduced Trotskyism,he later formed the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna and was called 'the Father of Socialism' and as 'the Lion of Boralugoda'. A member of the State Council of Ceylon and the Parliament of Ceylon,he served as the Minister of Agriculture and food under S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike from 1956 to 1959 and as Minister of Industries and Fisheries in the national government under Dudley Senanayake from 1965 to 1970.
Alexander Fairlie Wijemanne was a Sri Lankan lawyer and politician. He was a Minister of Justice as an elected member of the Senate of Ceylon and served as Sri Lankan Ambassador to Italy and Permanent Representative to FAO.
Colonel Candauda Arachchige Dharmapala,OBE,ED was Sri Lankan politician. He was a Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Industries,Housing and Social Services and Member of Parliament for Hakmana. He also served as the permanent secretary to the Ministry of Defence,and as Security Adviser to President J. R. Jayewardene.
Vaithianathan Karalasingham was a Ceylon Tamil lawyer,writer,politician and one of the leading members of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party.
Watson Fernando was a Sri Lankan communist politician and trade unionist. He served as president of the Ceylon Communist Party and was a member of the Moratuwa Municipal Council.
The Communist Party of Sri Lanka (Marxist-Leninist) was a political party in Sri Lanka. The party originated in a split in the Ceylon Communist Party,as tension had risen between N. Shanmugathasan and Watson Fernando. On September 22,1972 the N. Shanmugathasan-led Central Committee of CP(P) declared Fernando and fellow CC members Ariyawansa Gunasekara and V.A. Kandasamy expelled. On November 12,1972 Fernando's group declared itself as the CPSL(M-L).
Sangarapillai Sivathasan was a Sri Lankan political activist.
The New Democratic Marxist–Leninist Party is a political party in Sri Lanka. The party emerged in 1978 following a split in the Ceylon Communist Party (Maoist). The party initially called itself 'Ceylon Communist Party (Left)'. The founding general secretary was K.A. Subramaniam,the current is S.K. Senthivel.
K. A. Subramaniam was a Sri Lankan leftist political leader. He was one of the key member for the formation of the Ceylon Communist Party (Maoist). He was the founding General Secretary of the Communist Party of Sri Lanka (Left)
Communism in Sri Lanka dates back to 1935,when the Lanka Sama Samaja Party was founded by Trotskyists who campaigned for freedom and independence of Sri Lanka which was Ceylon back then. Communists of the LSSP later formed the Bolshevik Leninist Party of India,Ceylon and Burma in order to campaign for independence of the entire South Asia. LSSP was the first Marxist party to be based on South Asia and one of the few Trotskyist parties that had a major political influence. The Communist Party was the pro-Soviet Union section of Sri Lanka during the Cold War. It joined the government of Sri Lanka under the banner of pro-Eastern bloc and anti-Western bloc United Front of Sri Lanka. The LSSP also shortly joined it in many alliances but was heavily opposed to its pro-Soviet policy.
