United Socialist Party (Sri Lanka)
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The United Socialist Party (USP) is a Trotskyist political party in Sri Lanka. It is a member of the Committee for a Workers' International. It is led by Siritunga Jayasuriya.
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[edit] History
The USP traces its history back to the main opposition left group in the Lanka Sama Samaja Party, the Vama Samasamaja. This group were introduced to what was to become the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI) by Chris Roderigo in the 1970's[1].
The Vama Samasamaja became the Nava Sama Samaja Party when it separated from the LSSP in December 1977 following a number of expulsions from the LSSP starting in 1972. The NSSP was a section of the CWI from its foundation until it left in 1998. Disagreements on areas of theory and policy with the CWI eventually led to a split, and after 1989 the NSSP became a section of the United Secretariat of the Fourth International, while those still supporting the CWI became the USP.
[edit] Elections
In the Sri Lankan presidential election, 2005, its candidate, Siritunga Jayasuriya, came third with 35,425 votes(0.36%).[2] In the 2006 council elections, the USP candidate Pradeseey Saba in Eheliyagoda (Ratnapura) won 710 votes (2.37%), winning a seat on the council.[3][4]
[edit] Trivia
In October 2006 a section of its membership and central committee split away from the party. They accused the general secretary of organising a popular front style anti-war coalition with a capitalist party, the UNP, and of persecuting political minorities. They applied for affiliation to the League for the Fifth International in Spring 2007 under the name Socialist Party of Sri Lanka.
United Socialist Party was originally the name of party formed by the pro-Moscow elements expelled from the Lanka Sama Samaja Party in 1940, and which was dissolved in 1943 when the Communist Party of Ceylon was founded.
[edit] References
- ^ Trotskyism and Reformism Today - retrieved 17/08/07
- ^ United Socialist Party (cwi) comes third in presidential election - retrieved 17/08/07
- ^ United Socialist Party (CWI) wins council seat - retrieved 17/08/07
- ^ Elections and the menace of war - retrieved 17/08/07
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