The Communist Party of India (CPI) is the oldest communist party in India. The CPI was founded in modern-day Kanpur on 26 December 1925. Currently it has 2 members in Lok Sabha and 2 members in Rajya Sabha. In addition,it has 22 MLAs across 4 states and 1 MLC in Bihar. It has the current ECI status of a state party in Tamil Nadu,Kerala and Manipur.
The All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS),or All India Kisan Sabha,is the peasants front of Communist Party of India (Marxist),and works for farmers rights,peasants rights and anti-feudal movement in India.
Dasarth Debbarma was an Indian Communist politician in the Indian state of Tripura. He was chief minister of Tripura from 1993 to 1998. He was a leader of the Ganamukti Parishad and the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He was also the vice-president of All India Kisan Sabha and first and yet only Tiprasa chief minister of Tripura.
All India Kisan Sabha,is the peasant or farmers' wing of the Communist Party of India,an important peasant movement formed by Sahajanand Saraswati in 1936.
Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi was an Indian National Congress politician,former Union Minister and a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Raiganj constituency of West Bengal. He died on 20 November 2017,aged 72,after nine years in a coma following a massive stroke.
The Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) or SUCI(C),previously called the Socialist Unity Centre of India and "Socialist Unity Centre",is an anti-revisionist Marxist-Leninist communist party in India. The party was founded by Shibdas Ghosh,Nihar Mukherjee and others in 1948.
Mohammed Salim is an Indian politician belonging to the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He was inducted in the politburo of CPI(M) in the 21st party congress organised at Visakhapatnam in 2015. He was a member of the 16th Lok Sabha,representing Raiganj constituency. Earlier,he was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha,representing the Calcutta North East constituency of West Bengal. After delimitation,in the 2009 Lok Sabha election Salim contested the new Calcutta North constituency,and lost to Sudip Bandyopadhyay of the Trinamool Congress.
Ram Chandra Dome is an Indian politician and a Politburo member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). A doctor by profession,he was elected to the Lok Sabha for seven consecutive terms. He is the first member from the scheduled castes to be inducted in the politburo. He has also been serving as the national general secretary of Dalit Shoshan Mukti Mancha,CPI(M)'s frontal organisation for backward castes,since 2018.
Socialism in India is a political movement founded early in the 20th century,as a part of the broader movement to gain Indian independence from colonial rule. The movement grew quickly in popularity as it espoused the causes of India's farmers and labourers against the zamindars,the princely class and the landed gentry. After independence and until the early 1990s,socialism shaped some economic and social policies of the Indian government,although they mostly followed the principles of dirigisme. After this period,India moved towards a more market-based economy.
Uluberia Purba Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Samar Mukherjee was an Indian Communist leader. who served as member of the Lok Sabha,the lower house of the Parliament of India for the Howrah constituency for three consecutive term,and as a member of the Rajya Sabha. He was a member of the Polit Bureau,member of the Central Committee of Communist Party of India (Marxist) and he was also the General Secretary CITU.
Nurul Huda was an Indian politician,former Member of Parliament and former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Assam. A leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist),Nurul Huda belonged to the Central Committee of the party.
Atul Kumar Anjaan is a senior CPI leader and national secretary of the Communist Party of India. He is the General Secretary of the All India Kisan Sabha.
Amra Ram is an Indian politician and peasant leader,who was the President of All India Kishan Sabha from July 2013 to October 2017. Currently he is the vice-president of All India Kishan Sabha since October 2017. He was a Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) in Rajasthan Legislative Assembly from 1993 to 2013. Amra Ram is a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). Since 2014,he has been the State Secretary of CPI(M) Rajasthan unit and CEC member of CPI(M).
Dr. Vijoo Krishnan is an Indian peasant leader,writer on Agrarian Issues and General Secretary of the All India Kisan Sabha. He is a central committee member of Communist Party of India (Marxist). He is also part of the six-member central secretariat of CPI(M). He is one of the key organiser of Bhoomi Adhikar Andolan.
In 1964,a major split occurred in the Communist Party of India. The split was the culmination of decades of tensions and factional infighting. When India became independent in 1947,differences arose of how to adapt to the new situation. As relations between the Nehru government and the Soviet Union improved,a faction that sought cooperation with the dominant Indian National Congress emerged within CPI. This tendency was led by S.A. Dange,whose role in the party hierarchy became increasingly controversial. When the Sino-Indian War broke out in 1962 Dange's opponents within CPI were jailed,but when they were released they sought to challenge his leadership. In 1964 the party was finally divided into two,with the left faction forming the Communist Party of India (Marxist). The split had a lot of regional variations. It also impacted other organizations,such as trade union and peasant movements. The split has been studied extensively by scholars,who have sought to analyze the various domestic and international factors involved.
Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM),formed in November 2020,is a coalition of over forty Indian farmers' unions to coordinate satyagragh against the three farm acts initiated in September of the same year.
Ashok Dhawale is an Indian Peasant leader and the National President of All India Kisan Sabha. He is one of the leaders of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) which led a historic one-year long struggle that succeeded in getting the three Farm Laws repealed by the Central Government. He is also one of the leaders of the famous AIKS-led Kisan Long March in Maharashtra of 50,000 farmers from Nashik to Mumbai. He is a Polit Bureau Member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He was also the State Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in Maharashtra for ten years.
Communist movements in India refers to the various social and political movements lead by communists in India. Communism in India has existed since the 1920s. Some of the major events are listed below.
