Lanka Sama Samaja Party

Youth Leagues Suriya-Mal Movement Bracegirlde Incident 1953 Hartal The Lanka Sama Samaja Party (Sri Lanka Equal Society Party - LSSP) is a trotskyist political party in Sri Lanka. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (733x653, 130 KB)Self-made File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... The Youth Leagues were societies of young people, mainly intellectuals, who wanted independence for Sri Lanka. ... The Suriya-Mal Movement was formed in British ruled Ceylon (Sri Lanka) to sell Suriya (Portia tree) flowers on Poppy Day for the benefit of Sri Lankan ex-servicemen. ... Mark Anthony Lyster Bracegirdle (born in London on 10 September , 1912, died 22 June 1999), was an Anglo-Australian Marxist revolutionary, who played a key role in Sri Lankas independence struggle. ... Hartal 1953 was a demonstration of the tremendous power of the masses in action. ...

Personalities Philip Gunawardena Pieter Keuneman Anil Moonesinghe N.M. Perera Edmund Samarakkody Colvin R de Silva S.A. Wickremasinghe Peter Keuneman was a prominent Marxist member of Parliament and a leading figure in the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP). ... Anil Moonesinghe Anil Moonesinghe (15 February 1927 – 8 December 2002) was a Sri Lankan Trotskyist revolutionary politician. ... Nanayakkarapathirage Martin Perera, better known as N. M. Perera (6 June 1905 - 14 August 1979) was one of the leaders of the Sri Lankan Trotskyist Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP). ... Edmund Samarakkody was a leading Trotskyist in Sri Lanka and at one time a member of that countrys parliament. ... Dr. Colvin R. de Silva (-1987) was a Trotskyist leader and lawyer in Sri Lanka. ...

European Radicals in Sri Lanka The European Radicals in Sri Lanka were Europeans (or Americans) who went against the colonial system prevailing in Ceylon, as Sri Lanka was then known. ...

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Trotskyism Fourth International Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. ... For the left communist Fourth International, see Communist Workers International. ...

The Bolshevik Samasamaja Party was the Ceylon section Bolshevik-Leninist Party of India, Ceylon and Burma (BLPI) after 1945 and of the Fourth International in 1948-1950, after the dissolution of the BLPI. Bolshevik-Leninist Party of India, Ceylon and Burma (BLPI) was formed in Indian groups and Lanka Sama Samaja Party of Ceylon. ... For the left communist Fourth International, see Communist Workers International. ...

After the war there was a split in the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP). N.M. Perera and Philip Gunawardena, who had opposed a merger into the BLPI, reconstructed the LSSP as an independent party. Members of the other section, formed out of the exiled BLPI nucleus, effectively maintained a separate party, the Bolshevik Samasamaja Party (BSP). The latter group functioned as the Ceylon section of BLPI and was led by Colvin R de Silva, Leslie Goonawardena and Edmund Samarakkoddy, who had been the second tier of the party leadership at the beginning of the war. The Lanka Sama Samaja Party (Sri Lanka Equal Society Party - LSSP) is a trotskyist political party in Sri Lanka. ... Nanayakkarapathirage Martin Perera, better known as N. M. Perera (6 June 1905 - 14 August 1979) was one of the leaders of the Sri Lankan Trotskyist Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP). ... Dr. Colvin R. de Silva (-1987) was a Trotskyist leader and lawyer in Sri Lanka. ... Edmund Samarakkody was a leading Trotskyist in Sri Lanka and at one time a member of that countrys parliament. ...

The relation between the two groups was often antagonistic. The BSP, which concentrated on building a cadre party, accused LSSP of 'organisational Menshevism'. The LSSP wanted to build a mass-based party and accused the BSP of being introvert doctrinaires. On 25 October 1945 fist-fights broke out between the two groups at a meeting of the BSP. [1] [2] The Mensheviks were a faction of the Russian revolutionary movement that emerged in 1903 after a dispute between Vladimir Lenin and Julius Martov, both members of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. ... October 25 is the 298th day of the year (299th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 67 days remaining. ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...

In 1946 there was a brief reconciliation between the two factions. At the general election of 1947, the LSSP emerged as the main opposition party, with 10 seats. The BSP obtained 5 seats. 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

The BLPI-affiliated BSP became an independent party in 1948, and was recognized as the Lankan section of the Fourth International, when the BLPI was dissolved.

In 1950 the LSSP and BSP merged once again. The membership in the Fourth International was passed on to LSSP. When the group around Anil Moonesinghe split from the LSSP in 1982, he charged that the party had been taken over by the BSP faction. Anil Moonesinghe Anil Moonesinghe (15 February 1927 – 8 December 2002) was a Sri Lankan Trotskyist revolutionary politician. ...