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Centre of Communist Revolutionaries of India   [1988-1994]

      This organization was formed in 1988 with the merger of the following groups:

• UCCRI(ML) faction led by Harbhajan Sohi (which split from UCCRI(ML) in 1979).
• UCCRI(ML) faction led by Anand (which split from UCCRI(ML) in 1988).
• The CPI(ML) Chandrashekar group.
• The Revolutionary Communist Party, led by Takra.
• The CPI(ML) Organizing Committee, led by Raghubir.

The two UCCRI(ML) factions both split off from their parent group over the same issues: the adoption by the majority UCCRI(ML) group of the “Three Worlds” theory and their support for Deng Xiaoping in China. The CCRI’s general political strategy was that of the “mass revolutionary line”. The CCRI merged with three other groups in August 1994 to form the Communist Party Reorganization Centre of India (M-L).

• Documents and Pamphlets:
  • “In Defence of Marxism Leninism Mao Tsetung Thought and General Line of International Communist Movement”. This document was upheld by the Special Conference of the UCCRI (ML), Feb. 25-27, 1982, and reaffirmed by the Central Committee of the newly formed CCRI in this pamphlet published in February 1989, 108 pages. Includes criticism of the “Three Worlds” Theory, Deng Xiaoping [Teng Hsiao-ping] and also of Enver Hoxa   Searchable PDF format   [7,904 KB]
• The Comrade [Organ of the CCRI]:
  • #13 — late 1993, 90 pages. Complete except for cover and missing pp. 16-17. [Scanned from a xerox copy, but mostly legible.]   Searchable PDF format   [6,471 KB]
  • Unknown number — December 1992. [Complete issue not available.]
    • Individual article: “A.P. Leaflet: Murder of the Forgotten Yedida Satyam”, which is critical of the CPI (ML) People’s War Group, 8 pages. [Scanned from a xerox copy, but mostly legible.]   Searchable PDF format   [586 KB]
  • Unknown number — November (?) 1992. [Complete issue not available.]
    • Individual article: “Andhra Pradesh: Girijan Sangh’s Question to the People’s War Group”, 14 pages. [Scanned from a xerox copy, with some portions illegible.]   Searchable PDF format   [1,060 KB]
  • #8 — April 1991, partial issue, pages 14-71 only. [Scanned from a xerox copy, but mostly legible.]   Searchable PDF format   [4,247 KB]
  • #7 — October-December 1990   [Not yet available.]
  • #6 — c. 1990, partial issue, pages 1-27 and 62-95 only. [Scanned from a xerox copy, but except for the first and last page, mostly legible.]   Searchable PDF format   [4,488 KB]
  • #5 — c. 1990, partial issue, pages 1-53 only. [Scanned from a xerox copy, but mostly legible.]   Searchable PDF format   [4,060 KB]
  • #4 — 1989 [July?], partial issue, pages 1-51 and 70-105 only. [Scanned from a xerox copy, but mostly legible.]   Searchable PDF format   [6,481 KB]

Communist Party of India (M-L) Central Team

      The CPI(ML) Central Team was founded in December 1977 as a breakaway group from the CPI(ML) Provisional Central Committee [the Satyanarayan Singh/Chandra Pulla Reddy faction of the CPI(ML)], and originally upheld the line of Charu Mazumdar. In 1978 it had a rectification campaign against the annihilation policy (assassinations of individual class enemies) and came to the conclusion that mass organizations were indispensible as well as mass struggles. It still thought that the time was ripe for armed struggle, and continued to favor attempting to unify the CPI(ML) around the reorganization plan of the 1969 Central Committee [the “Eighth Central Committee”]. The CPI(ML) Central Team was active in Punjab, and remains so in Maharashtra and West Bengal. In Punjab they published the very influential revolutionary journal, Surkh Rekha. During the Khalistani period (1980s) the Punjab section of this group worked with the Centre of Communist Revolutionaries of India in building the important Front Against Repression and Communalism. This experience won the Punjab section of the Party over to the strategy of what is termed the “mass revolutionary line”. In August 1994 the Punjab section, led by Roshan, merged with CCRI and two other groups to form the Communist Party Reorganization Centre of India (M-L). Surkh Rekha then became a publication of CPRCI(ML). However the Maharashtra and West Bengal sections of the Central Team refused to go along with this and accused the Punjab section of betraying the old CPI(ML) movement. They continue to function as an independent organization under the name CPI(ML) Central Team. Before the 1999 Lok Sabha elections the Central Team signed a boycott call together with the CPI(ML) People’s War and the Revolutionary Communist Centre of India (Maoist).

• Documents and Pamphlets:
  • The Bleeding Punjab: A Report to the Nation, a joint publication of Surkh Rekha and Inkalabi Jantak Leeh, Sept. 1992, 139 pages. [Two pages per sheet. Scanned from a xerox copy, but except for parts of page 1 the document is mostly quite legible.]   Searchable PDF format   [9,285 KB]
  • “Special Bulletin”, No. 3, December 1977, 16 pages. Issued by the West Bengal State Organizing Committee of the CPI(ML) and the Maharastra State Organizing Committee of the CPI(ML). [Two pages per sheet. Scanned from a xerox copy, but for the most part the document is quite legible.]   Searchable PDF format   [1,238 KB]

Communist Party of India (M-L) New Democracy

      Founded as a breakaway from the CPI(ML) (Chandra Pulla Reddy) in 1988. The general secretary of this party is Yatendra Kumar. The party is mainly based in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, but also has branches in Bihar, West Bengal, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Delhi, Odisha, Haryana, etc. The party has one member in the Legislative Assembly of Andhra Pradesh, Gummadi Narsaiah from the constituency of Yellandu from where he has been elected continuously for five terms. The party also has one from Bihar, whose name is Umadhar Prasad Singh. CPI(ML) ND has been following both parliamentary and non-parliamentary methods of class struggle. It participates in elections and also has an underground guerrilla army with weapons. The party has open mass organizations like the Indian Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU) for industrial workers and the All India Kisan-Mazdoor Sabha for farmers and agricultural workers. It has two big students unions, PDSU, and PSU in Punjab. In recent years CPI(ML) ND has been more radicalized and has started focusing more on the underground guerrilla work, distancing itself from the parliamentary left and the moderate Marxist-Leninist factions. [Info from Wikipedia, Feb. 14, 2023]

• New Democracy Journal:
  • Vol. 10, No. 6-9, September 2004, 68 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,704 KB]
  • Vol. 8, No. 11-12, November-December 2002, 82 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [3,186 KB]

Communist Party of India (M-L) — Red Flag

      Founded in 1988 as a split-off from the CPI(M-L) Central Reorganisation Committee, which itself existed from 1979 to 1991. At first this break-away group called itself the Central Reorganisation Committee, CPI(M-L) (Red Flag), but then switched to the shorter name, CPI(M-L) Red Flag. The Red Flag was the name of its theoretical journal. This group focused on electoral politics as well as mass organizing. In the state of Kerala, where it was strongest, it formed an electoral front with a number of other nominally Marxist-Leninist parties. In January 2005, the CPI(M-L) Red Flag merged into a similar party, the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) led by Kanu Sanyal. However, a new party (or split-off) by the name of the Marxist-Leninist Party of India (Red Flag), or MLPI (Red Flag), more or less continues the political line of the former party. It has a web site at: https://mlpiredflag.org/   [Some of the information here is from the Wikipedia (as of Dec. 12, 2023).]

• The Red Flag Journal:
  • Issue #3 (April 1992), 63 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,530 KB]

Communist Party Reorganization Centre of India (M-L)

      The CPRCI(ML) advocates the “mass revolutionary line”. It was formed in August 1994 by the merger of four groups:

• The Punjab section of CPI(ML) Central Team
• Centre of Communist Revolutionaries of India
• Communist Unity Centre of India
• Marxist-Leninist Organising Centre

• Documents and Pamphlets:
  • “Organisational Line — Constitution”, by the CPRCI-ML. Draft version, August 1995. [As posted on the blythe.org website (which no longer exists) as of Nov. 7, 1998, 16 pages.]   Searchable PDF format   [2,113 KB]
• The Comrade, Organ of the CPRCI (ML):
  • 2016:
    • Vol. II, #2 — September 2016, complete issue, 104 pp.   Searchable PDF format   [7,131 KB]
    • Vol. II, #1 — August 2016, complete issue, 102 pp.   Searchable PDF format   [8,236 KB]
  • 2010:
    • Unknown number — February 2010, partial issue, pages 1-5, 7-11, and 59-96 only. [Scanned from a xerox copy, and parts of some pages are illegible.]   Searchable PDF format   [3,937 KB]
    • Unknown number — January 2010, partial issue, pages 24-39 only. [Scanned from a xerox copy, but mostly legible.]   Searchable PDF format   [1,220 KB]
  • 2005:
    • #22 — January 2005, complete issue, 108 pp.   Searchable PDF format   [7,358 KB]
  • 2003:
    • #20-21 — October 2003, complete issue, 140 pp.   Searchable PDF format   [9,756 KB]
    • #17-18 — c. August 2003, partial issue, pages 66-93 and 98-119 only. [Scanned from a xerox copy, but quite legible.]   Searchable PDF format   [3,440 KB]
  • 2002:
    • Unknown number — c. 2002, partial issue, pages 16-65 only. (This may be from issue #15, #16 or #17-18.) [Scanned from a xerox copy, but mostly legible.]   Searchable PDF format   [3,556 KB]
    • #15 — 2002, partial issue, pages 66-104 only. This is the 1943 document from the ECCI recommending the dissolution of the Communist International. [Scanned from a xerox copy, but reasonably legible.]   Searchable PDF format   [2,421 KB]
  • 2000:
    • Unknown number — Unknown Date [Possibly part of January 2000 issue], pp. 144-184, “Two Documents of the Communist Party of Peru”. [Scanned from a xerox copy, but mostly quite legible.]   Searchable PDF format   [3,661 KB]
    • Unknown number — January 2000, partial issue, pages 44-105 & 110-135 only. [Scanned from a xerox copy, but mostly quite legible. Some margins slightly clipped.]   Searchable PDF format   [7,735 KB]   Includes these articles:
      • “Political Campaign in Punjab during Parliamentary Elections” [Pp. 45-70]
      • “Punjab: Peasant Masses Give a Fitting Reply to Jethuke Firing” [Pp. 71-86]
      • “Elections to the 13th Parliament: Experiences of the Election-Period Campaign in Malkangiri” [Pp. 87-92]
      • “Malkangiri Adivasis’ Struggle for Their Rights over Bamboo” [Pp. 93-104]
      • “The Mass Line in Action in Revolutionary China” [Pp. 110-135]
  • 1999:
    • #11-12 — c. 1999, partial issue, pages 66-136 only. [Scanned from a poor xerox copy; some passages may be hard to read.]   Searchable PDF format   [5,087 KB]
    • #10 [?] — c. 1999. [Complete issue not available.]
      • Individual article: “PU-PW Merger: A Positive Development but for the Perspective”, an article about the recent merger of the CPI(ML) People’s War and the CPI(ML) Party Unity, pp. 1-3. [Scanned from a xerox copy, but quite legible.]   Searchable PDF format   [163 KB]
      • Individual article: “Letter from West Bengal: Disorder Brewing, Ruling Class Parties Losing Their Grip”, pp. 78-88. [Scanned from a xerox copy, but reasonably legible.]   Searchable PDF format   [804 KB]
  • 1998:
    • # 9 — September 1998, 111 pages. (Missing only inside front cover, and back cover.)   Searchable PDF format   [4,376 KB] Includes these articles:
      • “On 150 Years of the Communist Manifesto”
      • Punjab: “The Path Forward for BKU (Ekta)”
      • Orissa: “Nowrangpur Tribal, Dalit Peasants in Struggle”
      • Our Legacy: “Comrade Pol Pot”
      • “Third World Peasants Fight for Land”
      • “Japan’s Recession — Part of World Recession”
    • # 8 — August 1998, partial issue, pages 26-49 only. [Scanned from a xerox copy, but quite legible.]   Searchable PDF format   [1,704 KB]
  • 1997:
    • #7 — December 1997, partial issue, pages 8-79 only. [Scanned from a xerox copy, but quite legible.]   Searchable PDF format   [4,975 KB]
    • #6 — August 1997. [Complete issue not available.]
      • Individual article: “Khatau Workers’ Struggle: A Source of Optimism and Lessons”, pp. 25-43. [Scanned from a xerox copy.]   Searchable PDF format   [1,482 KB]
    • #5 — May 1997, partial issue, pages 10-31 and 48-49 only. [Scanned from a xerox copy, but quite legible.]   Searchable PDF format   [1,762 KB]
      • Individual article: “Strive to Transform the People’s Turbulent Forces into a Revolutionary Movement! Build for Communist Resurgence! — II”, Resolution of the Central Committee, CPRCI(ML), on the Present National Situation and Our Tasks (December 1996). [As posted on the blythe.org website (which no longer exists) as of Nov. 7, 1998, 18 pages.]   Searchable PDF format   [2,825 KB]
    • #4 — January 1997. [Complete issue not available.]
      • Individual article: “Strive to Transform the People’s Turbulent Forces into a Revolutionary Movement! Build for Communist Resurgence!”, Resolution of the Central Committee, CPRCI(ML) on the Present International Situation and Our Tasks (September 1996), pp. 1-33. [The Appendix here is incomplete. Scanned from a xerox copy.]   Searchable PDF format   [2,413 KB]
      • Same article as above, but much sharper image, and with the complete Appendix, 18 pages. [As posted on the blythe.org website (which no longer exists) as of Nov. 7, 1998, 18 pages.]   Searchable PDF format   [2,740 KB]
  • 1996:
    • #3 — August 1996, complete issue, 104 pp., A4 sheet size, two pages per sheet. Scanned from a xerox copy, but quite legible.   Searchable PDF format   [9,132 KB]
    • #2 — November 1995. [Issue not yet available.]
    • #1 — 1994, partial issue, pages 1-11 and 52-119 only. [Scanned from xerox copy.]   Searchable PDF format   [5,003 KB]
      • Supplement: “A Consolidation of the Proletarian Revolutionary Trend. An Advance Toward the Re-organisation of the Communist Party of India”, unity resolution of the four merging Communist revolutionary organisations and essentials of the ideological-political-organisational line of the CPRCI (ML), 49 pages. [Missing pages iv and v (part of the contents pages), but including all the text. Scanned from a xerox copy, but mostly quite legible.]   Searchable PDF format   [3,122 KB]

Unity Centre of Communist Revolutionaries of India (M-L) (D. V. Rao)

      Formed by D. V. Rao after the 1980 general elections, as a split from the original UCCRI(ML). [See below.] This party supported Deng Xiaoping and his fellow capitalist-roaders in China following Mao’s death, and to this day continues to view China as a socialist country. The party is now led by Arika Gumpaswamy.

• Documents and Pamphlets:
  • Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought is Our World Outlook, a compilation of articles by D.V. Rao. This was originally a publication to mark the centenary of Mao’s birth on December 26, 1993. (Hyderabad, India: Proletarian Line Publications), 212 pages. [Included in this volume are articles in support of the capitalist roaders who seized power in China after Mao’s death.]   Searchable PDF format   [14,841 KB]
  • “Preliminary Steps for Building Revolutionary Movement”, “Party Building and Political Work among the Working Class”, and “Mass Organizations”, all articles by D.V. Rao, a pamphlet supplement to The Proletarian Line, 1983, 45 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,337 KB]
  • “Refutation of Wrong Trends Advocating Withdrawal of Telangana Armed Struggle”, by D.V. Rao, a pamphlet supplement to The Proletarian Line, September 1982, 74 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [3,610 KB]
  • “Our Basic Documents”, by D.V. Rao, a pamphlet supplement to The Proletarian Line, July 13, 1982, 30 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [1,803 KB]
• The Proletarian Line, journal of the UCCRI(M-L) (D.V. Rao)
  • [To be added.]

Unity Centre of Communist Revolutionaries of India (M-L)   [1975-1992]

      Formed in 1975 and led by T. Nagi Reddy (died 1976) and D.V. Rao. One faction led by Harbhajan Singh Sohi split off in 1979 in protest of the organization’s stand in support of the “Three Worlds” theory and Deng Xiaoping in China. The faction led by D.V. Rao split off into its own organization around 1980. Another faction led by Anand joined the Centre of Communist Revolutionaries in India (CCRI) in 1988, which in 1994 became part of the Communist Party Reorganization Centre of India (M-L). The remainder of this group merged into the CPI(M-L) Janashakti in 1992.

• Books:
  
  • [Book:] “In Defense of Mao Tse-tung Thought”, by Harbhajan Singh Sohi, (Bathinda, Punjab, India: Mohinder Kaur, 2023), 290 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [3,046 KB]
• The Proletarian Path, journal of the CC(P) of the UCCRI(M-L)
  • 1980:
    • #2, October 1980, 52 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [4,734 KB]
• Pamphlets [Usually reprints from Proletarian Line or Proletarian Path.]
  • “Telangana Armed Struggle and the Path of the Indian Revolution”, about the armed peasant struggle in Telangana in 1946-1951, 2nd English edition 1982 (52 pages).   Searchable PDF format   [2,354 KB]
  • “Left-Deviation Within the Party”, February 1980 (but with articles from the early 1970s), 68 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [5,454 KB]
  • “The Martyrdom of Komarayya: A Turning Point in the Telangana Peoples' Revolutionary Movement”, by 'Aditya', June 16, 1979, 18 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [1,538 KB]
  • “The Fundamental Line and the Question of Unity”, n.d., but 1976 or later. One article is reprinted from the 7th issue of Proletarian Line (date unknown), 60 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,964 KB]
  • “Left Trend Among Indian Revolutionaries”, n.d., but 1974 or later, 70 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [3,220 KB]
  • “The Right Opportunist Trend Within the Party”, pamphlet edition of an article in the 8th issue of The Proletarian Line, c. 1971 (?), 52 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [2,239 KB]
  • “Some Problems Facing the Revolutionary Mass Movement of Khammam Area”, published Nov. 25, 1979, but with a report originally published on October 1, 1969, 16 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [1,442 KB]
  • “On Some Problems Connected with the Srikakulam Girijan Movement” and “Some Facts Relating to the Revolutionary Girijan Movement of Srikakulam”, 2 articles from around 1968, 23 pages. “Girijan” is another term for Adivasis or Tribal people.   Searchable PDF format   [1,619 KB]
  • “Lay the Foundations for Struggle Oriented Massment”, Marxism-Leninism and Armed Struggle in India, and several other articles from the late 1960s and early 1970s, 52 pages.   Searchable PDF format   3,661 KB]

Rahul Foundation Publications

• Ahwan Reprint Series
  • On Terrorism: Illusion and Reality, by Alok Ranjan, 40 pages. Originally published in Hindi; this English translation first published in 2008.   Searchable PDF format   [2,733 KB]
• Bigul Reprint Series
  • Still Ablaze is the Torch of October Revolution, a collection of articles translated into English from the Hindi language workers’ newspaper Bigul [“Nai Samajvadi Kranti ka Udghoshak Bigul”], 64 pages. First published in English in January 2008.   Searchable PDF format   [4,044 KB]
• Dayitvabodh Reprint Series
  • Why Maoism?, by Shashi Prakash, 52 pages. Originally published in the Hindi magazine Dayitvabodh in 1994; this first English publication is from January 2008.   Searchable PDF format   [3,638 KB]
  • Problems of Socialism, Capitalist Restoration and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, by Shashi Prakash, 76 pages. Originally written in 1990 and first published in the Hindi magazine Dayitvabodh in 1993. This first English publication is from January 2008.   Searchable PDF format   [5,541 KB]

Towards a New Dawn Magazine

      Website at: toanewdawn.in

• 2024:
  • January 2024 — Vol. 15, #1, 56 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [5,086 KB]  
• 2023:
  • January 2023 — Vol. 14, #1, 56 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [5,674 KB]
• 2020:
  • January 2020 — Vol. 12, #1, 68 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [3,125 KB]
• 2019:
  • May-June 2019 — Vol. 11, #1, 60 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [5,987 KB]

Nazariya Magazine

      We believe the name of this English-language magazine means “Perspective” in Hindi.

• Issue #3, not dated but apparently 2024, 128 pages. Includes articles in support of Palestine; on Nuh and fascism; on the Women’s Reservation Bill; on the imposition of the Hindi language; on Ukraine; on the World Social Forum; on the split between the CPI(ML) New Democracy and the CPI(ML) Prajapandha; on the politics of petting; and on the reactionary philosopher Nietzsche.   [To be scanned and posted soon.]
• Issue #2, July-September 2023, focused on Land Struggles in India, 80 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [10,168 KB]  
• Issue #1, [early 2023?], on the theme of Imperialism.   [Not yet available.]

Labor Struggles

• “The Significance of the Tata Power Workers’ Struggle”, a report by Jagrut Kamgar Manch, Sept. 3, 2004, 17 pages.   Searchable PDF format   [1,264 KB]

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