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 marrying the daughter of the wealthy press baron D.R Wijewardena and being appointed editor-in-chief of Lake House.
Founder Members
Dr. Colvin R de Silva
Leslie Goonewardena
Philip Gunawardena, later Viplavakari Lanka Sama Samaja Party, later Mahajana Eksath Peramuna
Dr. N.M. Perera
Other Prominent Members
Hector Abhayavardhana
Dr. Tissa Abeysekara
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
Vivienne Goonewardena
Robert Gunewardena, later Mahajana Eksath Peramuna
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
M. G. Mendis
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
P.D. Wimalasena (General Secretary of LSSP Trade Union Federation)
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
Dr. S.A. Wickremesinghe, later Communist Party of Sri Lanka
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
