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The Socialist Party of Sri Lanka is the first left-wing party in Sri Lanka to nominate a female presidential candidate. Dr. Ajantha Perera, an environmental scientist, who has over 30 years of experience advising multiple Ministries in Sri Lanka and Fiji, contested in the Presidential elections of December 2019. Dr.
[21]: 60 In 1965, there were four other leftist political parties in Sri Lanka: the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP), established in 1935 as the first political party in Sri Lanka; [22] the Communist Party of Sri Lanka (CPSL), which broke away from the LSSP and formed their own party in 1943 due to differences of opinion on supporting Britain ...
The National People's Power is ideologically left-wing populist [28] and working-class centred. The NPP is led by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, the main communist party of Sri Lanka. [29] The NPP promotes a unique Sri Lankan economic model based on socialist principles and considers both neoliberalism and 'classical socialism' to be failures. [30]
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]
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.
This article lists political parties in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka has a multi-party political system. Starting from the early 1950s, Sri Lankan politics was mostly dominated by two political parties and their respective coalitions: the centre-left social democratic Sri Lanka Freedom Party; the centre-right liberal conservative United National Party
Left-wing parties in Sri Lanka of Socialist or Communist orientation: Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. S. Socialist parties in Sri ...
Following the signing of the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord, the JVP launched its second insurrection against the Sri Lankan Government, and in 1987 a 19-year-old Dissanayake formally joined the JVP with his first cousin Sunil Dissanayake (Sunil Aiya), who convinced him to join while waiting for his GCE (AL) examination results.