List of members of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party

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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. 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

  • Colvin R de Silva
  • Leslie Goonewardene
  • Philip Gunawardena, later Viplavakari Lanka Sama Samaja Party, later Mahajana Eksath Peramuna
  • N. M. Perera
  • Selina Perera

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