Left Liberation Front
{{short description|Leftist alliance in Sri Lanka}}
{{About|the political alliance in Sri Lanka||Left Front (disambiguation)}}
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|leader = Vikramabahu Karunaratne
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|ideology = Communism
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|headquarters = 17 Barracks Lane, Colombo 02
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|country = Sri Lanka
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The Left Liberation Front is a far-left electoral coalition in Sri Lanka. It was founded in 1998 as the New Left Front by the Nava Sama Samaja Party, former members of the People's Alliance, and the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna. JVP became a part of the mainstream entering parliament in 1994.{{Cite web |date=2024-09-23 |title=Sri Lanka’s political shift: Historic turn toward Left |url=https://mattersindia.com/2024/09/sri-lankas-political-shift-historic-turn-toward-left/ |access-date=2025-06-04 |website=Matters India |language=en-US}} One of its early leaders is Anura Kumara Dissanayake.{{Cite web |date=2024-09-22 |title=In a political paradigm shift, Sri Lanka leans to the left |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3wp1p32endo |access-date=2025-06-04 |website=www.bbc.com |language=en-GB}}
The alliance has changed its name twice from the New Left Front: firstly to Left Front and secondly to Left Liberation Front in early 2010.
Members
Its current members are:
- Democratic Left Front{{Cite web |date=2024-10-08 |title=Vasudeva's party leaves Dilith, to support NPP |url=https://www.newswire.lk/2024/10/08/vasudevas-party-leaves-dilith-to-support-npp/ |access-date=2025-05-25 |website=Newswire |language=en-US}}
- National Democratic Movement
- Nava Sama Samaja Party{{Cite web |title=History of the CWI |url=http://www.socialistworld.net/publications/history/history07.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051201041406/http://www.socialistworld.net/publications/history/history07.html |archive-date=2005-12-01 |access-date=2005-12-16}}
- New Democratic Party
Elections
In the 2005 Sri Lankan presidential election, the New Left Front's candidate Chamil Jayaneththi came sixth of thirteen, with 9,296 votes.
References
See also
- {{C|Communist parties in Sri Lanka}}
- {{C|Trotskyist organisations in Sri Lanka}}
{{Sri Lankan political parties}}
Category:1998 establishments in Sri Lanka
Category:Communist parties in Sri Lanka
Category:Defunct left-wing political party alliances
Category:Defunct political party alliances in Sri Lanka
Category:Political parties established in 1998