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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
Other Prominent Members
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