History
The USP traces its history back to the main opposition left group in the Lanka Sama Samaja Party, the Vama Samasamaja. This group were introduced to what was to become the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI) in the 1970s. The Vama Samasamaja became the Nava Sama Samaja Party when it separated from the LSSP in December 1977 following a number of expulsions from the LSSP starting in 1972.
The NSSP was a section of the CWI from its foundation until it left in 1989. Disagreements on areas of theory and policy (such as the analysis of Stalinism) with the CWI eventually led to a split. One disagreement was over the leaders of the NSSP deciding to support the Indo-Sri Lanka Peace Accord which led to the deployment of the Indian Peace Keeping Force in a document issued on 12 February 1988. After 1989 the NSSP became a section of the United Secretariat of the Fourth International, while those still supporting the CWI became the USP.
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