Anil Moonesinghe
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Anil Moonesinghe was a Sri Lankan Trotskyist revolutionary politician and trade unionist. He became a member of parliament, a Cabinet Minister of Transport in 1964, the Deputy Speaker of Parliament fr
Anil Moonesinghe
Lanka Sama Samaja Party
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The Lanka Sama Samaja Party, often abbreviated as LSSP, is a major Trotskyist political party in Sri Lanka. It was the first political party in Sri Lanka, having been founded in 1935 by Leslie Goonewa
Anil Moonesinghe
…urgently summoned back to Colombo by his parents. After being called to the Bar, he practiced law throughout the island. Both he and Jeanne joined the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP) and worked with the Lanka Estate Workers' Union (LEWU), which organized laborers on the tea and rubber plantations. Despite Ceylon gaining a…
Procession in Bangalore
The formal ceremony marking the start of self-rule, with the opening of the first parliament at Independence Square by Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester in the presence of Rt Hon D.S. Senanayake as first Prime Minister of Ceylon.
LSSP's main office, situated in Colombo