the Quit India Movement of the Congress Party were considered to be seminal theoretical works. When the main LSSP leaders returned to Sri Lanka after the war, Abhayawardhana was among the Sama Samajists who remained in India. Journalist He worked on the fortnightly New Spark in Bombay, later moving to Chennai. He became General Secretary of the Socialist Party which was created by the fusion in 1948 of the BLPI with the Congress Socialist Party. He moved to New Delhi where he was editor of the Socialist Appeal and contributor to the Hindustan Standard. He spent two years in Hyderabad editing Mankind before returning to New Delhi where he began the critical journal Maral. Return to Sri Lanka In 1959 Abhayavardhana married Kusala Fernando and returned to Sri Lanka in 1960. Abhayavardhana is credited with formulating the classification of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) as a petty bourgeois party, which was the ideological and theoretical foundation of the LSSP Coalition with that party in 1964. After this, he promoted an alliance with the SLFP and the Communist Party, which finally emerged with the signing of the Common Programme of the United Front in 1968. Abhayavardhana started The Nation as an English organ of the United Front, serving as its editor. When the United Front formed a government in 1970 Hector served as Chairman of the People's Bank under Dr. N.M. Perera, the Finance Minister. After the front broke up in 1975, he founded the Socialist Nation. He also served on the Educational Bureau of the LSSP and was a long-standing member of the Politburo. In August 1992 Abhayavardhana, along with Vivienne Goonewardena and Bernard Soysa was a guest of honour at the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Quit India movement in New Delhi. Works Hector Abhayavardhana, Selected Writings, Colombo, Social Scientists Association, 2001. References External links 'Hector Abhayavardhana is 87 today : The wise elder of the Left, Daily News, 5 January 2006 Jayantha Somasundaram, 'Hector Abhayavardhana: The Internationalist', Daily News, 5 January 2006 Mention of Hector Abhayavardhana's death 1919 births 2012 deaths Sri Lankan Trotskyists Lanka Sama Samaja Party politicians Alumni of the Ceylon University College Academics from Kandy Sinhalese academics