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
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Year | Party | Founder(s) | Region | Status |
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1942 | Bolshevik–Leninist Party of India, Ceylon and Burma | Leslie Goonewardene | International | Merged into the Bolshevik Samasamaja Party in 1948 |
1948 | Communist Party of Sri Lanka | Dr. S. A. Wickramasinghe | National | Active |
Bolshevik Samasamaja Party | Colvin R de Silva, Leslie Goonewardene and Edmund Samarakkoddy | National | Merged into the Lanka Sama Samaja Party in 1950 | |
1950 | Viplavakari Lanka Sama Samaja Party | Philip Gunawardena | National | Merged into the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna in 1959 |
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 | Merged into the Revolutionary Workers Party |
1968 | Revolutionary Workers Party | Edmund Samarakkoddy | National | Defunct |
Socialist Equality Party | 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 | Vikramabahu Karunaratne and Sumanasiri Liyanage | National | Active |
1982 | Sri Lanka Sama Samaja Party | Anil Moonesinghe | National | Dissolved in 1983 |