The Communist Party of India (Marxist) is a communist political party in India. It is one of the national parties of India. The party emerged from a split from the Communist Party of India (CPI) on 7 November, 1964.
The All India Forward Bloc is a left-wing nationalist political party in India. It emerged as a faction within the Indian National Congress in 1939, led by Subhas Chandra Bose. The party re-established as an independent political party after the independence of India. It has its main stronghold in West Bengal. The party's current Secretary-General is Debabrata Biswas. Veteran Indian politicians Sarat Chandra Bose and Chitta Basu had been the stalwarts of the party in independent India.
Communist Marxist Party (CMP) was a political party in Kerala. The party was founded in 1986 when CPI(M) leader M. V. Raghavan was expelled from the CPI(M) due to a grave difference of opinion regarding the formation of alliances with the IUML. His support for forming a united front with non-secular parties such as the Muslim League in order to take on alliances led by the INC was ultimately rejected by the CPI(M) leadership. He was subsequently expelled from the Party.
Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) is a regional communist party in India. The party was founded on 19 March 1940 by Tridib Chaudhuri and has its roots in the Bengali liberation movement Anushilan Samiti and the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army.
Revolutionary Socialist Party of Kerala (Bolshevik) is formed as a splinter group from RSP in Kerala in 2001. The party leader at the time of its formation was Baby John, formerly an important RSP leader in Kerala.
Kerala Socialist Party (KSP) was a political party in India founded under the leadership of Mathai Manjooran on 21 September 1947 at Kozhikode. It began as a small party, but its front-line leaders compelled the party deep into the public imagination. The party was part of the coalition that formed the first democratically elected communist government in the world after San Marino.
Revolutionary Socialist Party of India (Marxist) was a political party in Kerala, India. It was formed by the former Labour Minister of Kerala, Babu Divakaran in 2005. Divakaran broke away from the RSP(B). In 2008 the party merged with the SP. In 2011, Babu Divakaran quit SP and subsequently RSP(M) merged with RSP.
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, princely class and landed gentry. Socialism shaped the principal economic and social policies of the Indian government but mostly followed Dirigism after independence until the early 1990s, when India moved towards a more market-based economy. However, it remains a potent influence on Indian politics, with many national and regional political parties espousing democratic socialism.
Communism in India (1925-1964) has existed as a political movement since at least as early as the 1920s. In its early years, the ideology was harshly suppressed through legal prohibitions and criminal prosecutions. Eventually, the movement became ensconced in national party politics, sprouting several political offshoots.
United Trade Union Congress (Marxist) is a federation of trade unions in Kerala, India. UTUC(M) emerged from a 2005 split in the United Trade Union Congress (Bolshevik). UTUC(M) is politically tied to Revolutionary Socialist Party (Marxist). T.M. Prabha is the general secretary of UTUC(M).
The Bolshevik Party of India is an Indian political party in India. The party was founded in 1939. The party had a certain role in the trade union movement in West Bengal and was briefly represented in the state government in 1969. In later years the party has played a negligible role in Indian politics.
Kerala Revolutionary Socialist Party is a political party in Kerala, India, led by Shibu Baby John. RSP is part of the Indian National Congress-led United Democratic Front.
Shibu Baby John is an Indian politician and former Minister for Labour of the State Government of Kerala, India. He is former General Secretary of the state's Revolutionary Socialist Party party, which is based in Kerala.Now RSP(Baby John) merged with Revolutionary Socialist Party and he is now national committee member of RSP. He is the son of former Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) leader Baby John and Annamma John. His party is part of the Congress-led United Democratic Front.
Babu Divakaran is an Indian politician and a former Minister from the state of Kerala. He started his political career in the Revolutionary Socialist Party. When the RSP split, he joined the Revolutionary Socialist Party (Bolshevik) along with Baby John, Shibu Baby John, and A.V. Thamarakshan. When the RSP (B) split in 2005, he formed the Revolutionary Socialist Party (Marxist). He is the son of T. K. Divakaran, a veteran RSP leader and former minister of Kerala state.
The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) was a Trotskyist political party in India.
T. K. Divakaran was a Malayali politician, trade unionist and a former member of Kerala Legislative Assembly. He was also a Minister in the E. M. S. Namboodiripad led Kerala Government.
A. V. Thamarakshan is a politician from the South Indian state of Kerala. He has been member of Kerala Legislative Assembly multiple times. he started his political career with RSP which later on split to form RSP (Bolshevik). RSP(B) went on to merge with Janathipathiya Samrakshana Samithy in 2009. Thamarakshan has also been independent candidate. In September 2021, he elected as the president of the JSS.
V. P. Ramakrishna Pillai was an Indian politician, belonging to the Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP).
R.S. Unni was an Indian politician and trade unionist. He served as a Central Committee member of the Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) and president of the United Trade Union Congress (UTUC). A state legislator for decades, he served as a Kerala state government minister in the 1980s.
United Front, known till 1971 as Mini Front (1970–1971) and as Maxi Front (1971–1979) thereafter, was a coalition of political parties in Kerala state, India, which was the ruling combine in the state from 1970 to 1979. The coalition was formed by five political parties immediately before the 1970 Kerala Legislative Assembly election. It saw the inclusion a few other parties in the following years.
