List of members of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party

List of prominent members of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party

Members of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP), a marxist, trotskyist, socialist party in Sri Lanka. Some of the people listed below may only briefly have been in the LSSP.

A large proportion of the leadership of the Left in Sri Lanka started their political lives in the LSSP. This is even true of the political right; for example, Esmond Wickremesinghe (the father of Ranil Wickremasinghe) was a leading member of the party -- before marrying the daughter of the wealthy press baron D.R Wijewardena and being appointed editor-in-chief of Lake House.

Founder Members

• Dr. Colvin R de Silva
• Leslie Goonewardena
• Philip Gunawardena, later Viplavakari Lanka Sama Samaja Party, later Mahajana Eksath Peramuna
• Dr. N.M. Perera

Other Prominent Members

• Hector Abhayavardhana
• Dr. Tissa Abeysekara
• S.C.C. Anthonipillai (Toni)
• Seneka Bibile
• Mark Anthony Bracegirdle
• Doric de Souza
• Carlo Fonseka
• Cholomondely Goonewardena, later Sri Lanka Sama Samaja Party later Sri Lanka Freedom Party
• Vivienne Goonewardena
• Robert Gunewardena, later Mahajana Eksath Peramuna
• Jeanne Hoban Moonesinghe, later Sri Lanka Sama Samaja Party
• Osmund Jayaratne
• Siritunga Jayasuriya later Nava Sama Samaja Party, later United Socialist Party
• Wickremabahu Karunaratne, later Nava Sama Samaja Party
• V. Karalasingham (Carlo)
• Vijaya Kumaratunga, later Sri Lanka Freedom Party, later Sri Lanka Mahajana Party
• Rhoda Miller de Silva
• Anil Moonesinghe, later Sri Lanka Sama Samaja Party later Sri Lanka Freedom Party
• Wesley Muttiah, later Nava Sama Samaja Party
• Vasudeva Nanayakkara, later Nava Sama Samaja Party, later Democratic Left Front
• P.D. Wimalasena (General Secretary of LSSP Trade Union Federation)
• G.E.H. Perera
• G.P. Perera ('Elephant Perera')
• Edmund Samarakkody, later Lanka Sama Samaja Party (Revolutionary), later Revolutionary Workers Party
• Wilfred Senanayake, later Sri Lanka Sama Samaja Party later Sri Lanka Freedom Party
• Regi Siriwardena (Hamid or Hameed)
• Bernard Soyza
• I. J. Wickrema
• Tissa Vitarana
• Batty Weerakoon
• Percy Wickremesekera, later Sri Lanka Sama Samaja Party
• Dr. S.A. Wickremesinghe, later Communist Party of Sri Lanka
• D.G. William ('Galle Face (due to Brian P&aecute;ppers)
• Doreen Young Wickremasinghe, later Communist Party of Sri Lanka
• V.S. Rajah ('Raja sahodaraya' 1935-2000), Long standing member of Lanka Sama Samaja Party

Lanka Sama Samaja Party
History	Bracegirdle Incident European Radicals Hartal 1953 Janadina Suriya-Mal Movement Youth Leagues
Leading members	S. C. C. Anthony Pillai Colvin R. de Silva William de Silva Doric de Souza Meryl Fernando Leslie Goonewardena Vivienne Goonewardena Philip Gunawardena Robert Gunewardena P. Kandiah V. Karalasingham Pieter Keuneman M. G. Mendis N.M. Perera Edmund Samarakkody Bernard Soysa A. Vaidyalingam Tissa Vitharana Batty Weerakoon S. A. Wickramasinghe
Factions & spin offs	Bolshevik Samasamaja Party Lanka Sama Samaja Party (Revolutionary) Nava Sama Samaja Party Sri Lanka Sama Samaja Party United Socialist Party Viplavakari Lanka Sama Samaja Party
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