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	A Short History of the LSSP
		Fraternal relations were established between the two parties and it was probably partly as a result of this that a delegation of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party was invited to and attended the Faizpur Sessions of the Indian National Congress in 1936.
		The Lanka Sama Samaja Party unhesitatingly characterised the new party as the political party of the Ceylonese bourgeoisie.
		The LSSP took the position that although legally power had been transferred, independence was a fake one on account of the economic domination of Ceylon’s economy by the imperialists, the continuation by Britain of military bases in Ceylon, and the existence of a secret defence agreement, explicit or implied, with the British Government.
	www.whatnextjournal.co.uk /Pages/History/Lssp.html (17070 words)

	Lanka Sama Samaja Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The LSSP was thus confirmed as a Trotskyist-led party.
		The LSSP accused the BSP of being introvert doctrinaires.
		At the general election of 1947 the LSSP emerged as the main opposition party, with 10 seats.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lanka_Sama_Samaja_Party (4353 words)

	South Asian Media Net
		Despite drastic constitutional changes since 1972, the party system's British heritage is readily apparent in the clear distinction made between government and opposition legislators in Parliament (sitting, as in Westminster, on opposite benches) and provisions in the 1978 Constitution to prevent defections from one party to another, previously a common practice.
		The Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP) was founded in 1935 and remained in the late 1980s one of the very few Marxist-Leninist parties in the world to associate itself with the revolutionary doctrines of Leon Trotsky.
		The two major parties, however, have together gained a progressively larger percentage of the popular vote at the expense of the smaller groups: from 59.5 percent of the total vote in 1952 to 80.6 percent in 1977.
	www.southasianmedia.net /profile/srilanka/srilanka_politicalparties.cfm (2467 words)

	Features \| Online edition of Daily News - Lakehouse Newspapers
		The Lanka Sama Samaja Party was one of the few if not the only Party in the world at that time to embrace the positions of the left opposition led by Leon Trotsky opposed to the dictatorial policies of Stalin.
		Thus it was those members of the Sama Samaja Party who supported the policies of Stalin who were expelled from the Party in 1938/39 and thereafter the Party aligned itself with the 4th International formed by Trostky a little prior to his assassination by a Stalinist agent in August 1940.
		Thus the Lanka Sama Samaja Party could be said to have played a pioneering role in organizing the working class of this country not only to win their economic demands in their Trade Unions but also to organize them politically for struggles beyond petty economic issues.
	www.dailynews.lk /2007/12/24/fea02.asp (1236 words)

	Lerski: Origins of Trotskyism in Ceylon (Chap.1)
		The charismatic figure of Mahatma Gandhi and his Congress Party’s “struggle for Freedom of India...” precisely because it had no parallel in Ceylon, tended to be idealized by radical and liberal elements.” [20] The economic framework of Ceylon was thus branded by the leftist youth leaders as that of imperialist exploitation.
		But during these first months of the LSSP it was more the correct timing of their political offensive, the youthful self-dedication and personal popularity of its talented founders, that contributed to the spectacular growth of the movement, than the amount of money involved or the gradual taking hold of their minds by the Marxist doctrine.
		The official Sinhalest name of the party being often misspelled by various authors, it may be worthwhile to quote the anger of the same speaker when he repudiated “the flippant and the irresponsible manner in which the Honorable Minister spoke of the party...
	www.marxists.org /history/etol/document/srilanka/ch01.htm (8321 words)

	Lanka Sama Samaja Party - Compendium of invaluable information
		The LSSP founded on 18 December 1935 in its first manifesto itself prominently pronounced that one should utilize the vernaculars; Sinhalese and Tamils in lower Courts of Law and statements recorded in police stations and extended the use to government offices.
		In another invaluable document the Lanka Sama Samaja Party in a declaration on the state language question affirmed that it always espoused the administration in Sinhalese and Tamil which are languages of the vast majority in Sri Lanka.
		It is striking that a long controversy had arisen in the course of the parliamentary debate on the word "parity" between parties with no avail to alleviate the hardship of the Tamils with one official language alien to them.
	samasamaja.org /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1&Itemid=2 (1314 words)

	Sri Lanka: Tea workers; one euro a day!
		The union is linked to the United Socialist Party (CWI Sri Lanka) and the new offices are a testimony to the growth of the party among Tamil plantation workers.
		These Indian-origin Tamils, brought to Sri Lanka a century and a half ago by the British colonialists, along with the tea bushes that they tend, are in many ways the backbone of the island’s working class.
		The plantations were nationalised in 1970 by the coalition government of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, the Communist Party and the (ex-Trotskyist) Lanka Sama Samaja Party.
	www.socialistworld.net /eng/2005/06/10srilanka.html (728 words)

	The Lanka Academic, the official newspaper of LAcNet
		Nanayakkara rejoined the LSSP and the PA in 1994 and was elected as an MP from the Ratnapura District until he was defeated in the parliamentary elections of 2000.
		But here in Sri Lanka MNCS are in cahout with the rulers for their enrichment at the expense of the people and the country.
		Here in Sri Lanka and in other ex colonial countries with a residue of feudalism, the super imposition of neo liberal economics, and subjected to globalization, the objective need is a left democratic programme rather than a socialist one.
	www.lacnet.org /the_academic/chat/QA_Vasu.shtml (10444 words)

	International Trotskyism - Ceylon/Sri Lanka: The Rise of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party
		Finally, with the rise of a left-wing party which surpassed it substantially in size and influence the LSSP was faced with the question of what attitude to assume in the electoral and parliamentary fields.
		Leslie Goonewardena, the party’s secretary, stated that “the Lanka Sama Samaja Party, while functioning as an independent group bound neither to the Government Party nor the Opposition Party, today adopts a position of general support of the Government, holding itself free to criticize the Government as well as vote against it where it disagrees [89].
		LSSP Secretary Leslie Goonewardena claimed that “the Left parties would never again extend their cooperation to the SLFP government.” Also, after the ULF won a by-election in January 1964 the LSSP victor, Vivienne Goonewardena, claimed that “only the ULF and the UNP were effective political forces.” [95].
	www.marxists.org /history/etol/writers/alex/works/in_trot/cey1_2.htm (4306 words)

	Sri Lanka - Growth of Leftist Parties
		The LSSP, formed in 1935 and the oldest of the Sri Lankan Marxist parties, took a stance independent of the Soviet Union, becoming affiliated with the Trotskyite Fourth International, which was a rival of the Comintern.
		The CPSL, which began as a Stalinist faction of the LSSP that was later expelled, formed its own party in 1943, remaining faithful to the dictates of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
		Partly because these parties operated through the medium of trade unionism, they lacked the wider mass appeal needed at the national level to provide an effective extraparliamentary challenge to the central government.
	countrystudies.us /sri-lanka/20.htm (281 words)

	Sri Lankan LSSP offers its services to big business as an advocate of peace
		The current moves in Sri Lanka for a peace deal to the country’s long-running civil war have again highlighted the political degeneration of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP), which, on the basis of a struggle for Trotskyism, was once the island’s largest working class party.
		The LSSP chided Kumaratunga for objecting to details of the MoU, stating it was of the opinion that “matters of process and procedure should not be of supermost concern in a discussion of the agreement.
		The party is a little more than a bureaucratic shell and the remains of a trade union apparatus, neither of which command a great deal of respect nor support in the working class.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2002/jun2002/lssp-j29.shtml (1490 words)

	Online edition of Sunday Observer - Business
		The work done by N. and his Sama Samaja comrades in the area during the Malaria Epidemic and the floods helped him collect the votes of the poor and caste-oppressed people of the area who fondly called him 'Parippu Mahathmaya' remembering the dhal he distributed to them.
		Anti-imperialism was a basic plank of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party and hence one of its major objectives was to gain full independence for the country; the other objective being to transform the existing capitalist society to a more equitable Socialist Society where exploitation of the workers and the oppressed could be ended.
		The Lanka Sama Samaja Party made an unsuccessful attempt to form a government of its own in the 1960 March Election after the assassination of S. Bandaranaike in 1959.
	www.sundayobserver.lk /2004/08/15/fea02.html (1559 words)

	GCSU Sri Lanka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		British colonialists who ruled Sri Lanka (Ceylon) from March 1815 educated the Sri Lankan people to work in the public sector because it was very difficult to bring sufficient administrative staff from the UK to administer the colony.
		Most of the GCSU members were members of Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP) and Communist Party of Sri Lanka (CP-Moscow wing).
		After the year 1977, the situation for Sri Lanka's left-wing political movements was getting worse due to the former President of Sri Lanka Junius Richard Jayawardena's (J.R. Jayawardena) right-wing policies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/GCSU_Sri_Lanka (801 words)

	International Trotskyism - Ceylon/Sri Lanka: The Rise of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party
		The Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP), which for a quarter of a century was the Ceylonese affiliate of the Fourth International and was by the mid-1980s still the largest of those groups in Sri Lanka claiming to be Trotskyist, is the oldest surviving party in the island.
		It was the LSSP efforts among the estate or plantation workers that gained the party most attention, in connection with the so-called “Brassgirdle incident.” Mark Anthony Lester Brassgirdle was a young Australian who went to work for a tea plantation but was dismissed for siding with the workers in a strike.
		Their demand that a new party conference be called to consider the issue was ignored by the majority of the leadership [37].
	www.marxists.org /history/etol/writers/alex/works/in_trot/cey1_1.htm (6294 words)

	Origins of Trotskyism in Ceylon Chapter I
		The LSSP was not at the beginning a truly Marxist, and even less so a Trotskyite, movement, Young English-educated radicals returned to Ceylon and founded a militant political organization with the broad aims of national independence and moderate socialism.
		Oriented toward the working masses, these “founding fathers” of the LSSP (most of them being between twenty-five and thirty years old) did not want an English name for the organization; Sinhalese being the language of the overwhelming majority, it was the Sinhalese designation that was of utmost importance.
		Certainly the first traces of the LSSP’s Trotskyite affiliation are not to be found in the party’s original plan for socialism in Ceylon, which resembles more the sober Fabian approach than the revolutionary philosophy of full-blooded Marxists.
	www.ucc.ie /acad/appsoc/tmp_store/mia/Library/history/etol/document/srilanka/ch01.htm (9020 words)

	Two nations theory is not new to Sri Lanka-TNA MP
		He reminded the prophetic speech made by a Sinhala leader Dr.Colvin R.De Silva of Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP) forty-eight years ago during the debate on the Sinhala only bill that "Do you want one nation with two languages or two nations with one language?" parliamentary sources said.
		Mr.Pararajasingham said the Minister for Labour Relations and Foreign Employment Mr.Athauda Seneviratne, a senior parliamentarian was a one time a Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP) stalwart.
		He reminded that LSSP, a leftist party, stood for parity of status for the Tamil Language in 1956 and later it abandoned the policy of parity of status and joined forces with the United Front Government led by later Prime Minister Ms Srimavo Bandaranaike.
	www.tamileelamnews.com /cgi-bin/news/exec/view.cgi/5/3523/printer (463 words)

	Political
		In doing so, the Lanka Sama Samaja Party wishes to state very clearly that to take forward the development of our country we must seek a very early solution to the ethnic problem affecting the North and East region of our country.
		In this view the Lanka Sama Samaja Party is firmly of the position that the struggle of the progressive forces is not merely one of defeating the UNP but of countering imperialism itself in its policies pursued through the world financial institutions and such of their agents as the UNP and other conservative forces.
		The Lanka Sama Samaja Party is committed to mobilise the progressive forces in support of Mahinda Rajapakse and we are confident that he understands the priorities of those forces.
	www.dailynews.lk /2005/11/02/pol03.htm (887 words)

	WWW Virtual Library: Sri Lankan Governments
		Bandaranaike's Sri Lanka Freedom Party allied itself with the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (Trotskyites) and formed a Cabinet with that party.
		She had formed the United Front, a coalition of her own Sri Lanka Freedom Party with the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (Trotskyites) and the Communist Party, and her Cabinet included members of all these constituent parties.
		The L.S.S.P. (Trotskyites), were expelled from the government of Mrs.
	www.lankalibrary.com /pol/governments.htm (427 words)

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		It has happened in Sri Lanka's history whenever the anti-UNP forces get together we could easily defeat the UNP and we assure even at this juncture that we will be able to defeat the UNP because all the anti-UNP forces have got together.
		They should not support either party and should be an independent body trying to facilitate and make arrangements for the two parties to get together and solve their problems.
		It was the LSSP for the first time what mentioned to the people that only through parity of status for the two languages that this could be solved.
	www.mahindarajapaksa.com /PENews/oct3105_01.php (2062 words)

	Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series / Sri Lanka / Appendix B
		It was founded in 1937 to represent the interest of Sinhala-language speakers in the Ceylon National Congress and to mobilize popular support for the liberation of the country from foreign rule.
		political party formed in 1984 by a daughter of Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Chandrika Kumaratunge, and her husband Vijay Kumaratunge, who claimed that the original SLFP, under the leadership of Bandaranaike's son, Anura, was excessively right wing and had become an instrument of the Jayewardene government.
		Political party in power in Sri Lanka for ten years beginning in February 1948 when the new constitution went into effect, and again from 1977 to 1988; nickname is "uncle-nephew party" because of kinship ties among the party's top leadership.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /frd/cs/sri_lanka/lk_appnb.html (826 words)

	Building a Left Wing in Sri Lanka
		The Nama Sama Samaja Party (NSSP) of Sri Lanka was formed in 1977 by people who were a faction within the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP).
		After 17 years of rule by the conservative United National Party (UNP), last August a coalition of the SLFP, LSSP and other smaller parties in the Popular Alliance (PA) was elected to government.
		The other parties that make up the alliance are the reformist Communist Party, the LSSP, the new Maoists who have turned reformist and the Tamil Workers Party.
	www.infolanka.com /org/srilanka/issues/lssp.html (1142 words)

	LankaWeb News
		The Trotskyites in Britain are going to hold a meeting in London with speakers from Nawa Sama Samaja Party (NSSP) from Sri Lanka in support of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
		The Trotskyite movement is going to explain why and how it is supporting a separatist racist and Fascist movement in Sri Lanka and justify forming a state called Eelam carved out of the island nation.
		Requesting people in Britain to campaign against Sri Lanka the announcement says the Trotskyite rally to support the LTTE will be held at the Indian YMCA Hall in Fritzroy Square in London, December 13 at 7.30 p.m.
	www.lankaweb.com /news/items06/061206-3.html (350 words)

	In Defence of Marxism - Sri Lanka
		Sri Lanka was one of the countries worst affected by the tsunami disaster.
		The government is now trying to exploit the situation to its advantage, but the huge wave that struck the country has brought out many contradictions and prepared to further destabilise an already very unstable regime.
		This has led to the rapid rise of a left opposition inside the LSSP, associated with the well-known mass leader, Vasudeva Nanayakkara, the member of parliament for the Ratnapura district.
	www.marxist.com /sri_lanka.htm (212 words)

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