Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna
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People's Liberation Front
ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණ மக்கள் விடுதலை முன்னணி Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna |
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| Leader | Anura Kumara Dissanayake |
| Secretary | M. T. Silva |
| Founder | Rohana Wijeweera |
| Founded | 14 May 1965 |
| Split from | Communist Party of Sri Lanka |
| Headquarters | 464/20 Pannipitiya Road, Pelawatta, Battaramulla, Sri Lanka. |
| Newspaper | Sensakhti/Red Power, Niyamuva, Seenuwa |
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Communism Marxism–Leninism |
| International affiliation | International Communist Seminar |
| Colors | Red |
| Parliament of Sri Lanka |
6 / 225
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| Sri Lankan Provincial Councils |
15 / 455
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| Local Government |
74 / 4,327
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Bell
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| Website | |
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The Janathā Vimukthi Peramuṇa (Sinhalese: ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණ; Tamil: மக்கள் விடுதலை முன்னணி "People's Liberation Front") is a communist and Marxist–Leninist party in Sri Lanka. The party was involved in two armed uprisings against the ruling governments in 1971 (SLFP) and 1987–89 (UNP). After 1989, it entered democratic politics by participating in the 1994 parliamentary election.
The JVP was founded in 1965 with the aim of providing a leading force for a socialist revolution in Sri Lanka. By 1965 there were four other leftist political parties: the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP), established in 1935 as the first leftist party in Sri Lanka; the Communist Party of Sri Lanka (CP), an offshoot of the LSSP; the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (MEP); and the Ceylon Communist Party. It was a period when economic crisis in the country was deepening. Since the country's independence the two main parties, the United National Party and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, had governed the country, each for eight years. According to the founders of the JVP, neither party had been able to implement even a single measure to resolve the crisis that Sri Lanka faced. The JVP considered the entry of three left parties into the government in 1964 as a conscious betrayal of the aspirations of the people and the working class.
During this period, Rohana Wijeweera was studying medicine at Lumumba University in Moscow. There, he read the works of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Lenin, and became a committed socialist. After a visit to Sri Lanka in 1964, he broke with Soviet orthodoxy and was not permitted to return to the USSR.
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