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Communist Party of India (M-L) [Original Party formed in 1969]
Documents, Statements, Liberation Magazine, and Writings
of its Founding Leader, Charu Mazumdar


      The Communist Party of India (M-L) referred to on this page is the original party with this name, which was formed on April 22, 1969 and was initially led by Charu Mazumdar, until his murder by the police in a torture prison in Kolkata (Calcutta) in 1972. After Mazumdar’s death, and under intense oppression from the government, the party disintegrated into many pieces, some of which continue or later merged with other forces. Most of the Maoist groups and forces in India today trace their origin (at least in part) to this party, including the most prominent of them, the Communist Party of India (Maoist).

      Note that some aspects of the political line of this original party have been revised or abandoned by its successor parties. In particular, most of these parties have abandoned or moved away from the ideology once associated with Lin Biao (Lin Piao, old style).

      Although the documents below are from many decades ago, they are very hard to locate and attempts to suppress them by the government authorities in India still continue. Besides documents of the CPI(ML) itself, we are also posting many articles from their theoretical journal, Liberation (which was first established two years before the Party itself), and many articles by Charu Mazumdar.

      If you know of other CPI(ML) documents which should be posted here please contact BANNEDTHOUGHT.NET at: freespeech@bannedthought.net


Documents:

Writings of Charu Mazumdar:

Liberation: Theoretical Journal of the CPI(M-L)

      [Articles are unsigned unless otherwise noted. Our thanks to the Sanhati.com web site for making the scanned PDF images of most of the whole issues available online.]


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