1. Hector Abhayavardhana was a Sri Lankan Trotskyist theoretician, a long-standing member of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party and a founder-member of the Bolshevik-Leninist Party of India, Ceylon and Burma.
17 Facts About Hector Abhayavardhana
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Hector Abhayavardhana's father was a government servant and a pillar of the establishment.
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Hector Abhayavardhana's upbringing, being anglicised in culture and religion, was typical of the colonial middle-class and hence remote from the mass of Sinhala-speaking Buddhist people.
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Hector Abhayavardhana went on to complete his colonial education at the Colombo Law College.
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Hector Abhayavardhana attended a mass meeting at Galle Face Green on 5 May 1937 at Bracegirdle made a dramatic appearance and a stirring speech before being whisked away into hiding.
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Hector Abhayavardhana organised the Mount Lavinia Debating Society, which invited such speakers as Dr Colvin R de Silva and JR Jayewardene.
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Hector Abhayavardhana was recruited to the Lanka Sama Samaja Party in 1940 by Esmond Wickremesinghe.
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Hector Abhayavardhana became part of the clandestine section of the LSSP that was established, in anticipation of its proscription, to work underground.
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Hector Abhayavardhana became a member of the Bolshevik-Leninist Party of India, Ceylon and Burma and began his career as a writer.
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Hector Abhayavardhana worked on the fortnightly New Spark in Bombay, later moving to Chennai.
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Hector Abhayavardhana became General Secretary of the Socialist Party which was created by the fusion in 1948 of the BLPI with the Congress Socialist Party.
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Hector Abhayavardhana moved to New Delhi where he was editor of the Socialist Appeal and contributor to the Hindustan Standard.
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Hector Abhayavardhana spent two years in Hyderabad editing Mankind before returning to New Delhi where he began the critical journal Maral.
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In 1959 Hector Abhayavardhana married Kusala Fernando and returned to Sri Lanka in 1960.
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Hector Abhayavardhana is credited with formulating the classification of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party as a petty bourgeois party, which was the ideological and theoretical foundation of the LSSP Coalition with that party in 1964.
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Hector Abhayavardhana started The Nation as an English organ of the United Front, serving as its editor.
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Hector Abhayavardhana served on the Educational Bureau of the LSSP and was a long-standing member of the Politburo.