List of Lanka Sama Samaja breakaway parties

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Since Sri Lanka gained independence in 1948, the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP) has seen a steady number of splits and breakaway factions. Some of the breakaway organisations have succeeded as independent parties, some have become defunct, while others have merged with the parent party or other political parties.

List of breakaway parties[]

Year Party Leader Region Status
1942 Bolshevik-Leninist Party of India, Ceylon and Burma Leslie Goonewardene International defunct
merged with Lanka Sama Samaja Party
1948 Communist Party of Sri Lanka Dr. S. A. Wickramasinghe. National active
1948 Bolshevik Samasamaja Party Colvin R de Silva, Leslie Goonewardene and Edmund Samarakkoddy. National defunct in 1950
merged with Lanka Sama Samaja Party
1950 Viplavakari Lanka Sama Samaja Party Philip Gunawardena National defunct in 1959
merged with Mahajana Eksath Peramuna
1959 Mahajana Eksath Peramuna Philip Gunawardena and PH William de Silva. National active
1964 Lanka Sama Samaja Party (Revolutionary) Edmund Samarakkody, Meryl Fernando, V. Karalasingham and P. Bala Tampoe. National defunct
merged with Revolutionary Workers Party (Sri Lanka)
1968 Revolutionary Workers Party (Sri Lanka) Edmund Samarakkoddy National defunct
1968 Socialist Equality Party (Sri Lanka) Keerthi Balasooriya National active
1972 Communist Party of Sri Lanka (Marxist-Leninist) Watson Fernando, Ariyawansa Gunasekara and V.A. Kandasamy. National defunct
1977 Nava Sama Samaja Party Dr Vickrambahu (Bahu) and Sumanasiri Liyanage. National active
1982 Sri Lanka Sama Samaja Party Anil Moonesinghe National defunct in 1983

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