Founded : - 14th May 1965
Founding Member : - Comrade Rohana Wijeweera
Ideology : - Marxism - Leninism
Organizational Principles : - Democratic Centralism
Junior Organizations : - Socialist Workers’ Union / Socialist Farmers Union /
Socialist Women’s Union / Socialist Students’ Union /
Socialist Youth Union / Society for Socialist Arts &
Culture
Present Leader of JVP : - Comrade Somawansa Amarasinghe
General Secretary : - Comrade M. Tilvin Silva
