List of Lanka Sama Samaja breakaway parties

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
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

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