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COLOMBO (Reuters) -Sri Lankans elected Marxist-leaning Anura Kumara Dissanayake as new president on Sunday, putting faith in his pledge to fight corruption and bolster a fragile economic recovery ...
LSSP was the first Marxist party to be based on South Asia and one of the few Trotskyist parties that had a major political influence. [2] The Communist Party was the pro-Soviet Union section of Sri Lanka during the Cold War. It joined the government of Sri Lanka under the banner of pro-Eastern bloc and anti-Western bloc United Front of Sri ...
Newspaper: Aththa Forward Deshabhimani: Youth wing: Communist Youth Federation: Membership (1960) 1900 [1] Ideology: Communism Marxism–Leninism: Political position: Far-left: National affiliation: ULS PA Formerly: FPA SLPFA UPFA United Front United Left Front: International affiliation: IMCWP [2] Parliament of Sri Lanka
The Socialism in Sri Lanka or Sri Lankan socialism is a political philosophy that is shared by various political parties of the country. Socialist parties, especially the Trotskyist Lanka Sama Samaja Party , have played a major role in the country's history from the time of the Sri Lankan Independence movement. [ 1 ]
There are 38 candidates in the fray. Sri Lanka's system allows voters to cast three preferential votes for their chosen candidates, with the candidate securing 50% of the votes or more declared ...
The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), a Marxist–Leninist political party in Sri Lanka, was formed in 1965 by a breakaway group of the Ceylon Communist Party (Maoist) led by Rohana Wijeweera. The JVP was involved in two armed uprisings against the ruling governments in 1971 and between 1987 and 1989 .
The Ceylon Communist Party (Maoist) is a political party in Sri Lanka. The party surged in 1964 following a split in the Ceylon Communist Party. Initially the party just called itself 'Ceylon Communist Party' as well, and was distinguished from the main CCP in Sri Lanka by denominations like 'Ceylon Communist Party (Peking Wing)', etc.
[5] [10] Communist Party of Sri Lanka (Left) changed its name to the New Democratic Party in 1991, and after that to New-Democratic Marxist-Leninist Party at its 5th All Ceylon Conference held in Colombo in June 2010. [12] [4] [10] Currently S.K. Senthivel is the general secretary, [13] and internationally the party is affiliated with ICOR. [13]