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The Socialist Party of Sri Lanka (SP) is a left-wing political party in Sri Lanka. Founded in 2006 as a split from the United Socialist Party (part of the Committee for a Workers' International ), it was for a time associated with the League for the Fifth International (L5I) until its expulsion in 2020 over a disagreement around electoral ...
The Socialism in Sri Lanka or Sri Lankan socialism is a political philosophy that is shared by various political parties of the country. Socialist parties, especially the Trotskyist Lanka Sama Samaja Party , have played a major role in the country's history from the time of the Sri Lankan Independence movement. [1]
The Frontline Socialist Party (FLSP) was launched at the First Convention held on 9 April 2012 by the dissident group of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP). The stalwarts of the party claimed that they are in an attempt to the revival of socialist struggle in Sri Lanka. The organizing secteray of the party is Premakumar Gunaratnam.
Communism in Sri Lanka. 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 then a colony of the British Empire and known as Ceylon. Communists of the LSSP later formed the Bolshevik Leninist Party of India, Ceylon and Burma in ...
Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original on 2012-08-05. "Sri Lanka". Leftist Parties of the World. 22 June 2004. Archived from the original on 1 October 2011 "The List of Political Party/Group in Sri Lanka (1945-2004)". Sri Lanka Statistics.
The Socialist Party of Sri Lanka is the first left-wing party in Sri Lanka to nominate a female presidential candidate. Dr. Ajantha Perera , an environmental scientist, who has over 30 years of experience advising multiple Ministries in Sri Lanka and Fiji, will be contesting in the Presidential elections of December 2019.
The Socialist Equality Party is a Trotskyist political 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 ...
The United Socialist Party ( Sinhala: එක්සත් සමාජවාදි පකෂය, Eksath Samajavadi Pakshaya, Tamil: ஐக்கிய சோசலிச கட்சி, Aikkiy soōcialica Kaṭci) is a Trotskyist political party in Sri Lanka. The party is led by perennial presidential candidate Siritunga Jayasuriya. It is ...