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Revolutionary Workers Party | |
|---|---|
| Founder | Edmund Samarakkoddy |
| Founded | 1968 |
| Split from | Lanka Sama Samaja Party (Revolutionary) |
| Preceded by | Revolutionary Samasamaja Party |
| Ideology | Communism Trotskyism |
Revolutionary Workers Party−RWP, initially known asRevolutionary Samasamaja Party is aTrotskyistpolitical party inSri Lanka.
The party was formed in 1968, as a split from theLanka Sama Samaja Party (Revolutionary). The founding secretary of the party wasEdmund Samarakkoddy.
The party adopted its current name in 1973.
RSP had denounced the 1971 uprising of theJanatha Vimukthi Peramuna as adventuristic.
In the latter half of the 1970s, RWP developed contacts with theinternational Spartacist tendency. The relationship with the Spartacists was broken in 1979, and in 1981 RWP suffered a split when a minority formed theSpartacist Group India/Lanka.
After the break with the Spartacists, RWP developed close contacts to anItalian split-off from iSt, theRevolutionary Workers Group (GOR). In 1991 RWP was one of the founder of theInternational Liaison Committee of Communists, an international Trotskyist tendency that is now defunct.
Samarakkoddy died in 1992. Little remains of the RWP today.
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