List of members of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party
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This following article is a 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.[citation needed] 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 he married the daughter of the wealthy press baron D.R Wijewardena and being appointed editor-in-chief of Lake House.
Founder Members
[edit]- Colvin R de Silva
- Leslie Goonewardene
- Philip Gunawardena, later Viplavakari Lanka Sama Samaja Party, later Mahajana Eksath Peramuna
- N. M. Perera
- Selina Perera
Other Prominent Members
[edit]- Tissa Abeysekara
- Hector Abhayavardhana
- Kusala Abhayavardhana
- S. C. C. Anthony Pillai (Toni)
- Seneka Bibile
- Mark Anthony Bracegirdle
- Doric de Souza
- Carlo Fonseka
- Cholomondeley Goonewardene, later Sri Lanka Sama Samaja Party later Sri Lanka Freedom Party
- Vivienne Goonewardena
- Robert Gunawardena, later Mahajana Eksath Peramuna
- Jeanne Hoban, later Sri Lanka Sama Samaja Party
- Osmund Jayaratne
- Siritunga Jayasuriya later Nava Sama Samaja Party, later United Socialist Party
- V. Karalasingham (Carlo)
- Wickremabahu Karunaratne, later Nava Sama Samaja Party
- Vijaya Kumaratunga, later Sri Lanka Freedom Party, later Sri Lanka Mahajana Party
- M. G. Mendis
- Anil Moonesinghe, later Sri Lanka Sama Samaja Party later Sri Lanka Freedom Party
- Vasudeva Nanayakkara, later Nava Sama Samaja Party, later Democratic Left Front
- 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)
- Tikiri Banda Subasinghe
- Tissa Vitharana
- Batty Weerakoon
- S. A. Wickramasinghe, later Communist Party of Sri Lanka
- I. J. Wickrema
- Percy Wickremasekera, later Sri Lanka Sama Samaja Party
- Doreen Young Wickremasinghe, later Communist Party of Sri Lanka