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In April 1969, AICCCR was reorganized into the Marxist-Leninist party, the CPI(Marxist -Leninist). The new anti-parliamentary party was announced to the world in May 1969 at a large meeting on the Maidan organized by Kanu Sanyal. Here there was a scuffle with CPI(M) cadres, a harbinger of much worse
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In a national CPI(ML) meeting in 1970, fissures started appearing between Charu and some others. By August 1970, Sushital was complaining that some pieces were appearing in the magazines without his knowledge, though he was editor-in-chief. He also suggested that the party should debate whether
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CPI(M) did unexpectedly well, and won 18.1% of the popular vote, though Congress remained the largest party with 127 (of 280) seats. In May 1967, The non-Congress parties linked up to form the United Front coalition, (CPI-M along with CPI and the breakaway
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statues of personalities such as Rabindranath should be vandalised. However, Charu Majumdar did not agree, and after this Sushital was relieved of his editorial role, though he continued to be a politburo member, but was marginalized.
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Early in 1971, Sushital, who had become a forlorn figure, died of a heart attack during the period of underground. It was even rumoured that he may have been attacked by cadres close to the party.
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joined the dissidents. In November 1971, this dissident group formed a new Central Committee with Satyanarayan Singh as the General Secretary, and expelled Charu Majumdar.
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in March but escalated with the murder of a policeman in May. However, with the deployment of state and central police, the movement was extinguished by July 1967.
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based radicals supported the Naxalbari movement by forming Naxalbari Krishak Sangram Sahayak Samiti (NOKSS) in May 1967. Sushital served as secretary and former
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On 12 November 1967, Sushital organized a two-day all India meeting of radical leftists at his house in
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In September 1967, Sushital, along with Saroj Dutta and others from Kolkata, as well as
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At the time, CPI(M) adopted a radical stance, with erstwhile revolutionary leaders like
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lived and worked with the armed peasants, ousting landowners. Violence started with
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and joined the Communist movement at an early age. Initially with
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Naxal Movement and State Power: With Special Reference of Orissa
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In November 1971, the dissident group Satyanarayan Singh and
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All India Coordination Committee of Communist Revolutionaries
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as a marxist intellectual (along with other radicals such as
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Maoist "spring thunder": the Naxalite movement 1967-1972
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Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) politicians
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Index

Sushital Roy Chowdhury
Politburo Member
CPIML
CPIM
Hooghly District
CPI
Hooghly, West Bengal
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)
Charu Majumdar
University of Calcutta
Communist Party of India
Tebhaga movement
Saroj Dutta
the Communist Party split in 1964
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Hare Krishna Konar
1967 Indian general election
Bangla Congress
Charu Majumdar
Kanu Sanyal
Jangal Santhal
land grabbing
Calcutta
Indian National Army
Pramod Ranjan Sengupta
Charu Majumdar
Kanu Sanyal
Siliguri
Maniktala

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