Lanka Sama Samaja Party Archives

Re-visiting the Case of Mark Anthony Lyster Bracegirdle of 1937: Part 1: The release of Bracegirdle-by Prabath de silva Bracegirdle beside Colvin R. de Silva and other Trotskyite leaders 1937 Source:Dailymirror Sir Sydney Abrahams, Justice Soertsz and Justice Martensz delivered the three separate respective judgements upholding the arguments of H.V. Perera KC, and held that Governor’s Order dated 22nd April 1937 requiring Bracegirdle to quit the Island and his subsequent Order for the arrest and deportation of Bracegirdle were illegal, and ordered the release of Bracegirdle Mark Anthony Lyster Bracegirdle (Also known as Price) was born in Chelsea, England in 1912. His parents were Ina Marjorie Lyster and James Seymour Bracegirdle. His mother was a suffragette and an active member of the Labour Party. Bracegirdle migrated to Australia with his mother, and studied art, and later trained as a farmer. In 1935, he joined the Australian Young Communist League (YCL) and ...

Failure of the brightest intellectuals of our time-BY H.L.D. MAHINDAPALA Source:Sundayobserver On June 7, 1964 Lanka Sama Samaja Party, the leading Trotskyite political party, was facing its biggest crisis since it was launched in December, 1935. It was a time when it was at the peak of its power. The Fourth International Secretariat in Paris was boasting that the Ceylon Branch, as it was known then, was the ‘world’s largest Trotskyite party’. The head of the 4th International, Michel Pablo and his associates like Pierre Frank had thrown their weight behind Dr. N. M. Perera, the President. They did not want to alienate the ‘world’s largest Trotskyite Party’. The New York Times ran a front-page story when Dr. N. M. Perera became the first Trotskyite to be elected as a mayor – the first significant political base won by any group of Trotskyites struggling in a world dominated by Stalin. The LSSP ...