Nava Sama Samaja Party

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The Nava Sama Samaja Pakshaya (New Social Equality Party) is a Trotskyist political party in Sri Lanka. It was formed through the expulsion of a tendency from the Lanka Sama Samaja Party in 1977 that was led by Siritunga Jarysuriya (Siri), Vasudeva Nanayaika (Vasu), and Vickremabahu Karunaratne (Bahu).

Initially NSSP was associated with the Committee for a Workers International but, in the opinion of the CWI, never fully agreed with the analysis that it had made of Stalinism, of developments in the former colonial and semi-colonial world and the national question.[1] It departed CWI in 1988, in a process described by some as expulsion, but by the CWI as a split. Since 1991 it has been the Sri Lankan section of the United Secretariat of the Fourth International.