Encyclodedia of Trotskyism On-Line

Ceylon/Sri Lanka

These works listed below relate to Ceylonese Trotskyism. The documents are either by Ceylonese Trotskyist organizations or they are workers on Trotskyism in Ceylon. A special focus has been to digitize pamphlets published by the mass Trotskyist party in Ceylon, the Lanka Sama Samaja Party which published a lot of documents and pamphlets between 1940 and 1970. A club sign "♣" indicates that the title comes from the Holt Labor Library pamphlet and document collection that has been digitized by the Riazanov Library Project

The Road to Freedom for Ceylon From Fourth International, NY, by the Lanka Sama Samaja Party, 1942

The Real Situation in Ceylon Samsamajist the organ of the Ceylon section of the Bolshevik-Leninist Party of India (Fourth International, October 1942)

The Present Political Situation in India (Theses) Theses of the Political Committee of Bolshevik-Leninist Party of India and Ceylon, Adopted August 4, 1944 (Fourth International, October 1944)

Left Disunity 1950 by Calvin R de Silva for the LSSP♣

Stop Imperialist Warmakers by Fighting for Socialism 1951. LSSP version of the 1951 Manifesto of the Third World Congress of the Fourth International Held in SwitzerlandAugust-Sept. 1951.♣

Hartel! 1953 by Calvin R de Silva for the LSSP♣

Lessons of the local Govt Elections 1954 by Calvin R de Silva for the LSSP♣

Crisis of Local Government 1954 by Edmund Samarakkody for the LSSP♣

Trotskyism and Stalinism 1954 by Leslie Goonewardene and an introduction by Calvin de Silva. Published by the LSSP.

Their Politics and Ours 1954 by Calvin R de Silva for the LSSP♣

The FI and The USSR 1956 by the LSSP

The Failure of Communist Politics 1957 by Calvin R de Silva for the LSSP♣

What We Stand For 1959 by Leslie Goonewardene♣

A Short History of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party 1960, by Leslie Goonewardene. PDF version Click here♣

The way out for the Tamil Speaking People 1963. The Minority Problem and the Ceylonese Revolution by V. Karlasingham, intro by P. B. Tampoe♣

The Struggle for Trotskyism in Ceylon by Edmund Samarakkody.

The Struggle for Trotskyism in Ceylon by Michael Ross [A Bulletin Pamphlet ].

B.M.K. Ramaswamy: A Tribute to a Remarkable Tamil Trotskyist By Charles Wesley Ervin, 2008

Trotskyism in Ceylon/Sri Lanka (two parts)
– from Robert J. Alexander, International Trotskyism 1929-1985: A Documented Analysis of the Movement. Copyright 1991, Duke University Press. – 190K in 4 files

Origins of Trotskyism in Ceylon A Documentary History of the Lanka Sama Samaja party, 1935-1942. (6 parts)
–by George Jan Lerski, 1964, copyright 1968, Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University by way of the Hoover Institution On War, Revolution and Peace. – 630K in 6 files

The Lanka Sama Samaja Party from its Beginnings to its Expulsion A review of Blows Against the Empire: The Lanka Sama Samaja Party, 1935-1964 by T. Perera in Revolutionary History, Vol. 6 No. 4

The Golden Afternoon of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party A review of Blows Against the Empire: The Lanka Sama Samaja Party, 1935-1964 by Ajith Samaranayake in Revolutionary History, Vol. 6 No. 4