Samal De Silva
Samal De Silva | |
|---|---|
සමල් ද සිල්වා | |
| Co-founder of Communist Party of Sri Lanka (Left) | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Sri Lanka |
| Nationality | Sri Lankan |
| Political party | Ceylon Communist Party (Maoist) Ceylon Communist Party |
| Occupation | Communist |
Samal De Silva was a Sri Lankan leftist political activist. Samal De Silva was the Chairman of the Ceylon Motor Workers Union and the Vice President of the Ceylon Trade Union Federation in the 1960s.[1][2]
In April 1963, A. M. P. John and Samal De Silva were sent to China by Ceylon Communist Party to participate in the May Day Rally in China.[3]
He also went to Albania with N. Sanmugathasan on behalf of Ceylon Communist Party (Maoist). In 1968 he fought against the UNP Government interference in CTB.[4]
In 1978, because the Ceylon Communist Party (Maoist), led by N. Sanmugathasan, issued a public statement in defiance of the decision of the Central Committee not to accept the decision of the Tamils self-determination and reject the Three Worlds Theory, many, including Samal De Silva, K.A. Subramaniam, S.K. Senthivel, left the party and formed a new political party called the Communist Party of Sri Lanka (Left).[5][6][7][8][9]
From 1965, when several hundreds of members and cadres who had joined the Party because it was a revolutionary Party became dissatisfied with the Party leadership and began to quit the Party and became isolated individuals, K.A. Subramaniam joined the other comrades who decided to stay in the Party and were confident that they could build up the Party anew, on the correct lines.[8][10][11][12][13]
Samal De Silva and the others who continued to stay in the Party which had N. Sanmugathasan as its General Secretary, were forced to change their position in 1978, at a special Party Conference which was summoned in the middle of 1978, though a full report incorporating correct ideological, political and organisational standpoints was presented under the leadership of K.A. Subramaniam and debated, the report was not accepted and arbitrary decisions were taken. In this background, Party members who had assembled from various parts of Sri Lanka decided to form a separate party. K.A. Subramaniam accepted the proposal with much reluctance and came forward to implement it resolutely.[7][8][14]
A statement was released by Samal De Silva and K.A. Subramaniam dated 3 July 1978 about the Conference. At that Conference it was resolved that the new party should be named Communist Party of Sri Lanka (Left), and until a Party Congress was held, an interim Organising Committee was chosen by the Conference, K.A. Subramaniam was elected Secretary of the committee.[8][14] [5]
References
- ↑ "Ceylon Motor Workers Union in 1960s".
- ↑ "CTUF Vice President in 1960s" (PDF).
- ↑ "Visit to China 1963" (PDF).
- ↑ "UNP Government interference in CTB 1968" (PDF).
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "NDMLP 40th Anniversary Seminar and Meeting".
- ↑ "The New-Democratic Marxist-Leninist Party in its 35th Year" (PDF).
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Statement by Samal De Silva and K.A. Subramaniam 1978".
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 "Comrade Maniyam Memories by S.K. Senthivel 2014".
- ↑ "Mr. K. Suppiah wrote in Sooddram in 2012".
- ↑ Asian Analysis. 1972. p. 46. Search this book on
- ↑ "W. A. Dharmadasa".
- ↑ "A Lost Revolution: The JVP Insurrection 1971". LankaLibrary.
- ↑ "Peradiga Sulanga team led by Gamini Yapa". Archived from the original on 3 July 2020. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 "The New-Democratic Marxist-Leninist Party in its 35th Year" (PDF).
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