in India was concentrated in Calcutta, Madras and Madurai, where the party was active in trade union work. In 1946 S. C. C. Anthonypillai, one of the Ceylonese (Sri Lankan) political leaders, was elected President of the Madras Labour Union (India's oldest union) and the Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway Workers' Union. In 1948, the Fourth International asked the party to enter the Socialist Party of India and practice entryism there. Leaders and important members Leslie Goonewardene Vivienne Goonewardene Philip Gunawardena Dr Colvin R. de Silva Dr N. M. Perera Edmund Samarakkody S. C. C. Anthonypillai Kamalesh Bannerji Onkar Nath Shastri Doric de Souza Chandravadan Shukla Raj Narayan Arya Kusumasiri Gunawardena Bernard Soysa Hector Abhayavardhana Vinayak Purohit Raghuvir Kodial References External links Resolution on Pakistan (December 1946) Documents of the Bolshevik-Leninist Party of India on anti-caste.org 1942 establishments in Ceylon 1942 establishments in India Communist parties in Sri Lanka Transnational political parties Defunct communist parties in India Defunct political parties in Sri Lanka Lanka Sama Samaja Party Political parties established in 1942 Political parties with year of disestablishment missing Trotskyist organisations in India Trotskyist organisations in Sri Lanka Indian independence movement Quit India Movement