Left Liberation Front

This article is about the political alliance in Sri Lanka. For other uses, see Left Front (disambiguation).

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.^[1] One of its early leaders is Anura Kumara Dissanayake.^[2]

Left Liberation Front
Leader	Vikramabahu Karunaratne
Secretary	Leenus Jayatilake
Founded	1998
Preceded by	New Left Front
Headquarters	17 Barracks Lane, Colombo 02
Ideology	Communism Trotskyism
Colors	Red
Election symbol
Umbrella
Website
nssp.info
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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^[3]
• National Democratic Movement
• Nava Sama Samaja Party^[4]
• 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.