Kipras Bielinis (26 September 1883 – 7 December 1965) was a Lithuanian politician, one of the leaders of the Social Democratic Party in interwar Lithuania.

He was arrested by the police together with other members of the Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party in November 1907 and was sentenced to four years of hard labor and then exile to the Irkutsk Oblast.

After the coup d'état of December 1926, Bielinis withdrew from more active political life working as a finance director at the Lithuanian Chamber of Agriculture [lt] and board member of several cooperatives.

[6] He contributed articles to Darbininkų balsas, Ūkininkas, Naujienos and represented Riga at the 1903 conference of the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania in Vilnius.

[4] He was arrested and beaten by the police, but his friends managed to free him and he continued to organize protest rallies and delivering public speeches.

He helped with the publication of Naujoji gadynė (The New Era) and contributed articles to other Lithuanian periodicals, including Skardas, Žarija, Vilniaus žinios, Lietuvos ūkininkas, using as many as 40 different pen names to confuse the police.

He obtained a fake passport with the help of Felicija Bortkevičienė, escaped from Manzurka, and worked as a bookkeeper in Khor in the Khabarovsk Krai.

[4][6] After the February Revolution, the Russian Provisional Government announced an amnesty to political prisoners and Bielinis arrived to Petrograd in summer 1917 where he rejoined the activities of the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania.

[4] He continued to work at the administration keeping its finances as the city changed hands during the Lithuanian–Soviet War and organized partisan groups to fight the West Russian Volunteer Army.

Bielinis helped reestablishing the Social Democratic Party in Lithuania and was named as one of the five board members in its registration with the Lithuanian government.

He then traveled to United States from December 1922 to May 1923 visiting various communities of Lithuanian Americans, delivering speeches, and collecting donations for various social democratic causes in Lithuania.

Bielinis and other social democrats protested the coup d'état of December 1926 that brought President Antanas Smetona to power.

Bielinis and Kairys attended the 4th congress of the Labour and Socialist International in Vienna in 1931, but more active political work in Lithuania was difficult.

[8] They both were briefly arrested in April 1929 when police searched the headquarters of the Social Democratic Party and found copies of the illegal Pirmyn (Forward) newspaper published by the plečkaitininkai.

In 1942, two such umbrella organizations were created – the Catholic-minded National Council, chaired by Juozas Ambrazevičius, and the atheist Supreme Committee of Lithuanians.

Bielinis decided to transfer VLIK to Germany where Rapolas Skipitis, Vaclovas Sidzikauskas, and Mykolas Krupavičius resided.

In July, the small VLIK retreated to Suvalkija and published several proclamations urging Lithuanians to defend Lithuania's independence from the advancing Red Army, i.e. to organize the partisan warfare against the Soviet Union.

When VLIK moved to the United States in 1955, Bielinis rejoined its activities and was briefly its acting chairman from 3 October to 29 November 1964.

[11] He also contributed articles social-democratic Lithuanian press, including newspapers Keleivis (Traveler), Naujienos (News), magazines Darbas (Work) and Darbininkų balsas (Voice of Workers).

[1][12] On 30 May 1966, the ashes of Bielinis and Steponas Kairys were buried at the Lithuanian National Cemetery in Chicago, where a monument by architect Jonas Kova-Kovalskis [lt] was erected in 1979.