Revolutionary Workers Party (Sri Lanka)
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Revolutionary Workers Party, initially known as Revolutionary Samasamaja Party is a Trotskyist political party
in Sri Lanka
. The party was formed in 1968, as a split from the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (Revolutionary)
. The founding secretary of the party was Edmund Samarakkoddy. The party adopted its current name in 1973.
RSP had denounced the 1971 uprising of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna
as adventuristic.
In the latter half of the 1970s, RWP developed contacts with the international Spartacist tendency. The relationship with the Spartacists was broken in 1979, and in 1981 RWP suffered a split when a minority formed the Spartacist Group India/Lanka.
After the break with the Spartacists, RWP developed close contacts to an Italian
split-off from iSt, the Revolutionary Workers Group (GOR). In 1991 RWP was one of the founder of the International Liaison Committee of Communists, an international Trotskyist tendency that is now defunct.
Samarakkoddy died in 1992. Little remains of the RWP today.
Political party
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in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...
. The party was formed in 1968, as a split from the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (Revolutionary)
Lanka Sama Samaja Party (Revolutionary)
Lanka Sama Samaja Party was a Trotskyist political party in Sri Lanka. LSSP was formed in 1964 when the Lanka Sama Samaja Party was expelled from the Fourth International. LSSP was constituted by the ideological hardliners who opposed LSSP joining the national government and wanted to preserve the...
. The founding secretary of the party was Edmund Samarakkoddy. The party adopted its current name in 1973.
RSP had denounced the 1971 uprising of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna
The Janathā Vimukthi Peramuṇa is a Marxist-Leninist, Communist political party in Sri Lanka. The party was involved in two armed uprisings against the ruling governments in 1971 and 1987-89...
as adventuristic.
In the latter half of the 1970s, RWP developed contacts with the international Spartacist tendency. The relationship with the Spartacists was broken in 1979, and in 1981 RWP suffered a split when a minority formed the Spartacist Group India/Lanka.
After the break with the Spartacists, RWP developed close contacts to an Italian
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
split-off from iSt, the Revolutionary Workers Group (GOR). In 1991 RWP was one of the founder of the International Liaison Committee of Communists, an international Trotskyist tendency that is now defunct.
Samarakkoddy died in 1992. Little remains of the RWP today.