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The Socialist Equality Party is a Trotskyistpolitical party in Sri Lanka. It was founded in 1968 as the Revolutionary Communist League by former student members of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (Revolutionary) who joined the International Committee of the Fourth International. They remained loyal to Gerry Healy until the majority of the International split from his organisation. In the 1990s, it changed its name from to the Socialist Equality Party, in line with other members of the surviving ICFI. In the Sri Lankan presidential election, 2005, the party's candidate, Wije Dias, came 11th of 13 candidates, with 3,500 votes (0.04%). Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. ... A political party is a political organization that subscribes to a certain ideology and seeks to attain political power within a government. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Lanka Sama Samaja Party (Revolutionary) was a Trotskyist political party in Sri Lanka. ... The International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) is a Trotskyist international. ... Gerry Healy (December 3, 1913 - December 14, 1989) was a Trotskyist activist. ... Presidential elections in Sri Lanka were held on 17 November 2005. ...
The conflict was the creation of the weak ruling class in SriLanka which provoked racial discrimination against the Tamil minority to divide the Sinhala- and Tamil-speaking working class along ethnic lines and protect its rule.
The SEP is the Sri Lankan section of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) which defends the principles of Trotskyism and fights for the political independence of the working class.
The United SocialistParty, a breakaway from the NSSP, along with former NSSP leader Vasudeva Nanayakkara.
The SocialistEqualityParty of SriLanka learned on Tuesday that several SEP members in Kilinochchi, a region in the north of the island controlled by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), have been arrested by LTTE authorities.
The Sri Lankan SEP is attempting to gather more detailed information about the number and identity of those who have been seized, but it is already clear that the individuals involved are in serious danger.
I, Wije Dias, the general secretary of the SocialistEqualityParty (SEP), the Sri Lankan section of the Fourth International, send this note of strong protest to the LTTE for arresting a number of our party members working in the area of Kilinochchi.
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