List of members of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party

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
• 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