The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated as CPI(M)) is a communist political party in India. It is the largest communist party in India in terms of membership and electoral seats,and one of the six national parties of India. The party was founded through a splitting from the Communist Party of India in 1964 and it quickly became the dominant faction.
Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi,formerly known as the Dalit Panthers of India or the Dalit Panthers Iyyakkam,is an Indian social movement and political party that seeks to combat caste based discrimination,active in the state of Tamil Nadu. The party also has a strong emphasis on Tamil nationalism. Its chairman is Thol. Thirumavalavan,a lawyer from Chennai,and its general secretary is the writer Ravikumar.
The Kilvenmani massacre was an incident in Kizhavenmani village,Nagapattinam district of Tamil Nadu state in India on 25 December 1968 in which a group of around 44 people,the families of striking Dalit village labourers,were murdered by a gang,allegedly led by their landlords. The chief accused was Gopalakrishnan Naidu.
W.R. Varadarajan was an Indian politician and trade unionist. He was a Central Committee member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and All India Secretary of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU).
U. Vasuki is an Indian politician and trade unionist from Tamil Nadu. As of 2017,she is a central committee member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the National Vice President of the All India Democratic Women's Association.
N. Sankaraiah was an Indian Communist Party politician and independence activist.
P. Dillibabu is an Indian politician and was a member of the 14th Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly from the Harur constituency,which is reserved for candidates from the Scheduled Castes. He represented the Communist Party of India (Marxist) party. Previously he represented the same constituency as a Communist Party of India (Marxist) member in the 2006 elections.
R. Nallakannu is an Indian politician. He is a senior leader of the Communist Party of India (CPI). He was the former State Secretary of the Communist Party of India of Tamil Nadu.
Doraisamy Raja is an Indian politician and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (CPI) since July 2019. He was former member of Rajya Sabha from Tamil Nadu. He was the national secretary of the Communist Party of India (CPI) from 1994 to 2019.
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Mythili Sivaraman was an Indian women's rights and trade union activist. She was a co-founder of All India Democratic Women's Association and leader in the Communist Party of India (Marxist). Through her writings and activism she brought attention to the Keezhvenmani massacre of 1968 and the Vachati mass rape cases of 1992. She led efforts to drive women's empowerment,particularly of women from the disadvantaged communities,and trade union and labour activism. She was a contributor to Economic and Political Weekly,and wrote for publications including Mainstream and the Radical Review.
Tamil Nadu Untouchability Eradication Front (TNUEF) is one of the organisations of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). It works to eradicate the untouchability and other forms of caste oppression. It was the key organisation which worked in razing the untouchability wall at Uthapuram.
Kandhasamy Rajendran,popularly known as Viduthalai Rajendran is a periyarist,currently the General Secretary of Dravidar Viduthalai Kazhagam,formerly Periyar Dravidar Kazhagam. He is well known for propagating the principles of Periyar E. V. Ramasamy through his literary works. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the weekly Puratchi Periyar Muzhakkam.
People's Welfare Front (PWF) was a Tamil-Nadu political alliance formed in October 2015. It consisted of four political parties :Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK),Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK),Communist Party of India (CPI) and Communist Party of India (Marxist). The alliance contested the 2016 Tamil Nadu and Puducherry legislative assembly elections as one unit. The alliance rejected potential alliance with Indian National Congress,BJP,DMK or ADMK,while hopeful of enlisting and TMC and Puthiya Tamilagam.
K. U. Jenish Kumar is an Indian politician belonging to the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He is a member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly representing Konni constituency.
The 2004 Kalapatti violence refers to the violence against Dalits by dominant-caste villagers in the village of Kalapatti,Tamil Nadu on 16 May 2004. About 100 Dalit houses have been burned down by a mob of 200 villagers and Dalits who attempted to escape were attacked. The attacks lasted for 2 hours and 14 people were seriously injured in the violence including a man's arm reportedly hacked off.
Loganathan Murugan is an Indian politician and advocate currently serving as minister of state in the Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs,Ministry of Fisheries,Animal Husbandry and Dairying and Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. On 7 July 2021,he was made a union minister of state prior to which he was the state president of the Tamil Nadu unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
A. Thamizhmahan Hussain is an Indian politician and Presidium Chairman of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party from 23 June 2022. Being One of the founding members of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam,He also served as All World M.G.R. Forum Secretary. He is the Former Chairperson of Tamil Nadu Waqf Board from 2012 to 2016.
The Central Committee is the second-highest body of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). The members of the Central Committee are elected at the Congress of the Party,which occurs every three years.
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