79th Anniversary : The LSSP of Today is No More the Party of NM, Colvin, Leslie and Bernard

LSSP leaders at Horana with Bracegirdle, circa 1937

by Vijaya Kumar-18/12/2014

The 79th Anniversary of Sri Lanka’s oldest political party, the Lanka Samasamaja party (LSSP) falls on December 18th. The party of NM, Colvin, Leslie and Bernard not only played a major role in the anti-imperialist struggle but was also responsible for fighting for and obtaining many of the benefits enjoyed today by the working class and the ordinary people of Sri Lanka. Most of them have been diluted and even been made irrelevant on World Bank and IMF advice by successive governments in their quest for growth and high per-capita GDP, economic objectives which do not appear to trickle down to improve the standards of living of ordinary people.
79th Anniversary the LSSP of Today is No More the Party of NM, Colvin, Leslie and Bernard by Thavam Ratna