This is an assorted collection of Left-wing political and civil rights pamphlets and booklets dating from the 1940s to the 1990s. The authors and publishers include former left-wing political parties, trade union movements, and civil rights movements. The collection covers left-wing perspectives on the ethnic conflict, the National Question, trade union activism and workers’ struggle, general strikes, Socialist ideology and women in the left movements. The publications are booklets by and on parties and organizations such as Lanka Sama Samaja Party, Communist Party, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, Workers’ Peasant Institute, Federation of Ceylon Trade Unions, Movement for Inter Racial Justice and Equality (MIRJE) etc.