Frontline Socialist Party

FLSP claims that the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna has lost its revolutionary thought built by Rohana Wijeweera since the beginning of his campaign. They claim that the JVP now relies on government coalitions rather than Revolutionary Socialism.

Premakumar Gunaratnam was the Trincomalee leader of the Deshapremi Janatha Viyaparaya and worked as a secondary revolutionary leader of the JVP. He was at the odds of the party for the lack of the revolutionary purpose since Wijeweera's death in 1989.

April 2012, internal crisis within the party heated up between the hard core socialist Gunaratnam and the party leader Somawansa Amarasinghe. As a result, the party’s media unit was shut down once a majority of the members extended their support to Gunarathnam. The Women’s wing [10] and a majority of the Student's wing and the Youth wing have extended their support to Gunaratnam group. [11]

The members of the party with some other left-wing parties held protests in front of the US embassy in Sri Lanka which was later assaulted by Police officers complaining about the breaking of "health regulations". [12]

The party members claimed this was a peaceful protest against the killing of George Floyd and against the signing of MCC deal with the United States.

The members of the FLSP, Premakumar Gunaratnam and a group of supporters of the FLSP started marching down the streets mostly wearing Red to represent Communism and Anti-racism. The members carried posters that read "Racism is a deadly virus" thus referring to the outbreak of the Coronavirus. The police soon crossed the road blocking the road to the U.S Embassy. The police then began to clash with the protesters. No deaths were caused in the combat but may were wounded by the end.[13]