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Communist Party Of Sri LankaCommunist Party of Sri Lanka, political party in Sri Lanka. CPSL was founded as the Communist Party of Ceylon in 1943. CPSL was a continuation of the United Socialist Party. The USP had been formed out of the pro-USSR-wing of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party. USP was proscribed by the colonial authorities. USP and CPC were led by Dr. S.A. Wickremesinghe. In 1952 Wickremesinghe's wife, the English-born Doreen Wickremesinghe, was elected to the Sri Lankan parliament. In 1960 the Communist Party, Lanka Sama Samaja Party and the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna formed the United Left Front. The ULF broke down in 1964 when the then Prime Minister Bandaranaike offer ministerial posts to LSSP and the CP. Later CPSL joined the People's Alliance, the front led by the Sri Lanka Freedom Party. When SLFP put the PA on the shelves and formed the United Peoples Freedom Alliance together with Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna ahead of the 2004 elections, CPSL and LSSP initially stayed out. They did however, signed a memorandum with the UPFA at a later stage and contested the elections on the UPFA symbol. CPSL does however consider itself as not being a member of UPFA. The CPSL has one member of parliament (2004), party general secretary D.E.W. Gunasekara. Gunasekara was supposed to have become the speaker of the Sri Lankan parliament, but loss by a handful of votes. Gunasekara was then sworn-in as the Minister for Constitutional Affairs. The youth wing of CPSL is the Communist Youth Federation. CYF is a member organization of the World Federation of Democratic Youth. In Tamil, the party is called இலங்கை கம்யூனிஸ்ட் கட்சி. External link
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