Pieter Keuneman

Pieter Keuneman

Peter Keuneman was a prominent Marxist member of Parliament and a leading figure in the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP).

Early life

He had studied at Royal College and Pembroke College, Cambridge where be became a communist, President of the Cambridge Union and editor of the student magazine "Granta". He was the son of a Dutch Burgher Supreme Court Justice in Sri Lanka. At Cambridge he met his wife, Hedi Stadlen who became one of the leading European Radicals in Sri Lanka.

Political career

In the LSSP, he became associated with a tendency that supported the views of Joseph Stalin and eventually became the Communist Party of Ceylon.

During the 1970s, he became minister of housing and local government. He introduced a controversial floor area limit of 90 square metres on all new private houses.

ee also

* Communist Party of Sri Lanka

References

External links

* [http://www.samasamaja.org/ Official Website of Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP)]


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