Pieter Keuneman

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Peter Keuneman was a prominent Marxist member of Parliament and a leading figure in the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP).

Contents 1 Early life 2 Political career 3 See also 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Early life

He had studied at Royal College and Pembroke College, Cambridge where be became a communist, President of the Cambridge Union and editor of the student magazine Granta. He was the son of a Dutch Burgher Supreme Court Justice in Sri Lanka. At Cambridge he met his wife, Hedi Stadlen who became one of the leading European Radicals in Sri Lanka.

[edit] Political career

In the LSSP, he became associated with a tendency that supported the views of Joseph Stalin and eventually became the Communist Party of Ceylon.

During the 1970s, he became minister of housing and local government. He introduced a controversial floor area limit of 90 square metres on all new private houses.

[edit] See also

• Communist Party of Sri Lanka

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official Website of Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP)