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 Wickremasinghe (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. N.M. Perera
- Philip Gunawardena, later Viplavakari Lanka Sama Samaja Party, later Mahajana Eksath Peramuna
- Robert Gunewardena, later Mahajana Eksath Peramuna
- Dr. Colvin R de Silva
- Dr. S.A. Wickremesinghe, later Communist Party of Sri Lanka
Other Prominent Members
- Hector Abhayavardhana
- 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
- Leslie Goonewardena
- Vivienne Goonewardena
- 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
- 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
- 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
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