Irvin Joseph Wickrema
Popularly as I.J. Wickrema
Born on 23 June 1922
Died on 12 May 1979 was a promising leader of the Government Clerical Service Union (GCSU) in Sri Lanka in the 1960s. He was a Communist ideologist and a member of Lanka Sama Samaja Party’s central committee also led the GCSU’s “Golden era” in its history. At that time the total number of GCSU members was around 30,000 out of 50,000 clerical workers in the 1960s.