Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)













































































Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)
Secretary-General Provash Ghosh
Founded 24 April 1948
Headquarters 48 Lenin Sarani
Kolkata, India
700013
22°33′49.9″N 88°21′20.1″E / 22.563861°N 88.355583°E / 22.563861; 88.355583
Newspaper
Proletarian Era (English)
Ganadabi (Bengali)
Student wing All India Democratic Students Organisation
Youth wing All India Democratic Youth Organisation
Women's wing All India Mahila Sanskritik Sanghathan
Labour wing All India United Trade Union Centre
Peasant's wing All India Krishak Khet Majdoor Sangathan
Ideology
Communism
Anti-Revisionism
Marxism-Leninism
Shibdas Ghosh Thought
Colours Red  

ECI Status		 Registered Unrecognised Party[1]
Alliance
Independent
Trinamool Congress+ (2008-2014)
Seats in Lok Sabha

0 / 545

[2](currently 520 members + 1 Speaker)
Seats in Rajya Sabha
 0
Seats in 

0 / 295


(West Bengal Legislative Assembly)
Website
www.sucicommunist.org

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The Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)' or SUCI(C), previously called the Socialist Unity Centre of India and "Socialist Unity Centre" is a communist party in India. The party was founded by Shibdas Ghosh, Nihar Mukherjee and others in 1948.




Contents






  • 1 Ideology


  • 2 Parliamentary politics


  • 3 Current situation


  • 4 Campaigns


  • 5 Leadership


  • 6 Former Legislators of SUCI(C)


  • 7 Mass organisations


  • 8 Publications


  • 9 Criticism


  • 10 References


  • 11 External links





Ideology


SUCI(C) is a communist party in India,[3] and follows a Marxist-Leninist ideological line formulated by Shibdas Ghosh. The party rejects political ideas such as glasnost and perestroika as revisionist, and claims to uphold the original intent of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, and the thoughts of Ghosh.[4]


SUCI(C) holds that India is a capitalist country with monopoly capitalism and imperialist trends. In line with that analysis, the party works toward a socialist revolution, rather than a people's democratic revolution (like the Communist Party of India (Marxist)), a national democratic revolution (like the Communist Party of India) or a new democratic revolution (like the Naxalites).[5]


SUCI(C) leadership emphasises the qualitative upliftment of party cadres, workers of mass-organisations and supporters, by both theoretical study of Marxism-Leninism-Shibdas Ghosh Thought and the practical application of such knowledge in the day-to-day life of party workers. In various publications of the party, SUCI upholds the proletarian cultural standard, which, according to the leadership, should be achieved by the cadres, before they can lead the masses in the Socialist Revolution.


The 1st SUCI Party Congress was held in Kolkata in 1988. The 2nd party congress was held from 11–17 November 2009 in Ramlila Maidan, New Delhi attended by thousands of participants from 22 states and observers from several foreign countries. The current political line of the party was formulated in the 2nd party congress.[6][7][8] The party's name was changed from Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI) to Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) [SUCI (C)] at the second party congress.[9]



Parliamentary politics


From its inception, SUCI took part in parliamentary elections and was part of the United Front governments in West Bengal in 1967–1969 and 1969–1970 together with CPI(M) and others. The party had a Member of Parliament (MP) in the 4th Lok Sabha from Jaynagar.[10][11] The SUCI had presence in the legislative assemblies of Assam, Bihar and Orissa at various times. In the 2004 Lok Sabha elections SUCI launched 56 candidates, 30 of them from West Bengal. In the 2009 Lok Sabha elections SUCI declared 40 candidates from 12 states.[12]


As of 2009, Tarun Mondol, representing Jaynagar in West Bengal, was party's sole and last MP. After 2014 Loksabha and 2016 Bidhansabha Elections, it has no MP or MLA from India.[13]



Current situation


SUCI(C) members live in communes wherein they lead a simple life style. Day-to-day upkeep of the commune and the well being of the children of party members living in the communes are taken care by the shared efforts of party members. Major income of the party is from box collection in the streets and house to house collection; members who are employed hand in their salaries to the party. The party contests elections with the money collected through this transparent fund raising method.[14][15][16]


The stronghold of the party is in the South 24 Parganas, West Bengal, in areas such as Jaynagar Mazilpur where it controls certain municipalities.


SUCI(C) is actively involved in the ongoing anti-Special Economic Zone movements in India. The most notable of these movements that the party is active in are:



  • The Singur movement against the SEZ for the Tata Group's car factory.[17][18][19]

  • The Nandigram movement against the SEZ for the Salim Group's chemical hub.[20][21][22][23][24] SUCI(C) is one of the main backers of the Bhumi Uchhed Pratirodh Committee.

  • The Moolampally (Cochin, Kerala) land evictees agitation for an appropriate rehabilitation package. The general convener of the Moolampally agitation is Francis Kalathunkal, the local secretary of SUCI(C).[25][26]

  • The party is also actively involved in the agitation of landless in Chengara (Pathanamthitta, Kerala) called Chengara Samaram in popular media.[27][28]

  • The anti-Posco movement in Orissa.[29]


The party has formed a political front in West Bengal with All India Trinamool Congress to fight the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on an agreement that the alliance will maintain equidistance from the Indian National Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party.[30][31]


The party won the Joynagar constituency in the 2009 general elections with a majority of 53,676 votes.[32]





Shibdas Ghosh, Founder General Secretary of SUCI




Nihar Mukherjee Memorial Meeting held in Netaji Indoor Stadium in Kolkata on 3 March 2010





Campaigns


The Gherao principle was introduced as a formal mode of protest in the trade union sector by Subodh Banarjee, who was a central committee member of SUCI and the PWD and Labor Minister in the 1967 and 1969 United Front Governments in West Bengal, respectively.[33][34][35]


One of the major campaigns of the party in West Bengal has been its agitations against the educational policy of the Left Front state government. The decision of the Left Front government to remove the English language from primary education sparked a mass movement led by the SUCI for the reinstatement of English.[36][37][38]


Below is a chronological list of campaigns organised by the SUCI(C) in West Bengal:



  • 1953: Tram fare protest movement was organised by the SUCI.[39]

  • 1954: In 1954, the SUCI organised the teachers’ movement.[39]

  • 1956: Banga bihar sanjukti birodhi andolan.[39]

  • 1958: Students’ movement was organised by the party.[39]

  • 1959: The SUCI organised food movement.[39]

  • 1967: Another food movement was led by the party.[39]

  • 1979: The SUCI organised a movement against various decisions taken by the Government of India.[39]

  • 1980: The SUCI organised Bhasha andolan against the Government of West Bengal which continues till now.[39]

  • 1983: A movement was led by the party against bus fare hike.[39]

  • 1988: First Party Congress in Kolkata (24–29 March)

  • 1990: Another movement was organised by the SUCI against the Government of West Bengal for bus fare hike and a Bangla bandh in September to protest against the death of Madhai Halder, a party supporter killed in police firing at the Esplanade on 31 August 1990. This was the first bandh.[39]

  • 1991: A protest was led by the organisation against electricity price hike.[39]

  • 1991: The SUCI organised a movement against the state education policy.[39]

  • 1998: Bangla bandh on 3 February in order to bring back English at the primary education. This was the second bandh.[39]

  • 2000: The SUCI organised a protest movement demanding English as a compulsory subject at primary education.[39]

  • 2002: A protest was organised against the decision of the Government of West Bengal to increase hospital fee and the increase in electricity charges by the Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation and West Bengal State Electricity Board. This was the third bandh.[39]

  • 2006-ongoing: The Anti SEZ movements in Singur[17][19] and Nandigram.[20][21][22][23][24]

  • 2008: 21 12 April-hour statewide shutdown in West Bengal jointly called by the Trinamool Congress and SUCI.[40][41]




SUCI mural in Kolkata, announcing 'SUCI day' rally on 24 April



Leadership


Provash Ghosh is the current leader of the party. He was elected as the General Secretary of the party by the central committee on 4 March 2010.[42]


After Shibdas Ghosh's death in 1976, Nihar Mukherjee, a co-founder of SUCI, became the General Secretary.[4] Mukherjee died of cardiac arrest on 18 February 2010 at Kolkata.[43]
























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The central committee members of the party are:




  • Provash Ghosh (General Secretary & Politburo member)

  • Manik Mukherjee (Politburo member)

  • Asit Bhattacharyya (Politburo member)

  • Ranjit Dhar (Politburo member)

  • Yakub Pailan (died on June 14, 2014)

  • Debprasad Sarkar

  • Kalyan Chowdhury Expired

  • C.K Lukose

  • K. Radhakrishna

  • Gopal Kundu

  • Soumen Bose

  • Satyawan

  • Sankar Saha

  • Chhaya Mukherji


The incumbent central committee and politburo was elected in the 2nd party congress.[44]


Secretaries of the State Committees of the party are:




  • Assam: Chandralekha Das


  • Bihar: Shiv Shankar


  • Haryana: Satyawan


  • Karnataka: K. Uma


  • Kerala: C.K Lukose (Website of SUCI(C) Kerala State Committee)


  • Madhya Pradesh: Pratap Samal[45]


  • Orissa: Durjati Das


  • Uttar Pradesh: V.N. Singh


  • West Bengal: Chandidas Bhattacharya


Secretaries of the State Organising Committees are:




  • Delhi: Pran Kumar Sharma[46]


  • Andhra Pradesh: B.S.Amarnath


  • Tamil Nadu: Rengasamy


  • Telangana: Ch.Murahari


  • Gujarat: Dwarika Nath Rath[47]


  • Rajasthan:


  • Punjab: Aminder Pal Singh (Incharge)[48]


  • Jharkhand: Robin Samajpati


  • Tripura: Arun Bhowmik


The MP of the party is:



  • Dr. Tarun Mandal: Joynagar (Lok Sabha constituency), (2009-2014) West Bengal[49][50]

The MLA of the party is:


  • Dr. Tarun Kanti Naskar : Joynagar constituency,(2011-2016) West Bengal[51]


Former Legislators of SUCI(C)


The former ministers of SUCI in West Bengal:




  • Subodh Banarjee: PWD Minister 1967 United Front Government, Labour Minister 1969 United Front Government

  • Protiva Mukherjee: PWD Minister 1969 United Front Government[52]


The former MP of the party was:


  • Chita Rai: Joynagar (Lok Sabha constituency), West Bengal[53]

The former MLAs of the party were:[54][55]




  • Subodh Banarjee: Kultali, Joynagar constituencies, West Bengal – First MLA of SUCI


  • Probodh Purkait: Kultali constituency, West Bengal

  • Renupada Halder: Mathurapur (SC) constituency, West Bengal

  • Rabin Mondal: Patharpratima constituency, West Bengal

  • Hari Pado Bouri: Raghunathpur (SC) constituency, West Bengal

  • Protiva Mukherjee: Suri constituency, West Bengal

  • Bazle Ahmad: Murari constituency, West Bengal


  • Sambhunath Naik: Jashipur (ST) constituency, Orissa

  • Nalini Ranjan Singh:Kanti:Mujaffarpur, Bihar



Mass organisations


The principal mass organisations of SUCI(C) are:



  • All India United Trade Union Centre

  • All India Democratic Students Organisation

  • All India Democratic Youth Organisation

  • All India Mahila Sanskritik Sanghathan

  • All India Krishak Khet Majdoor Sangathan



Publications


The central organ of SUCI(C) is the Proletarian Era, an English forthnighly published from Kolkata.




Cover of Proletarian Era


The state committees of the party publishes:




  • Ganadabi[56] (Bengali weekly, published from Kolkata)


  • Unity (Malayalam monthly, published from Thiruvananthapuram)


  • Ganamukti (Assamese fortnightly, published from Guwahati)


  • Karmika Drushtikona (Kannada monthly, published from Bangalore)


  • Pattali Chinthanai (Tamil monthly, published from Chennai)


  • Sarbahara (Oriya monthly, published from Bhubaneswar)


  • Sarvahara Dristhikon (Hindi forthnighly, published from Delhi)


  • Socialist Viplavam (Telugu monthly, published from Hyderabad)


  • Morcha (Urdu monthly, published from Kolkata)



Criticism


They are often criticized by the other Left parties for supporting a nondemocratic anti-communist party like TMC, to defeat the Left Government. After breaking the alliance with TMC, Provash Ghosh said in a press statement, "The CPI (M) government had turned ‘anti-people’ therefore it was extremely important to end their 34-year tenure in the state", he also added, “Our main target of dislodging the CPI (M) government has been achieved, and we are no longer an ally of TMC. We are ready to sit in opposition.”.[57]



References





  1. ^ "List of Political Parties and Election Symbols main Notification Dated 18.01.2013" (PDF). India: Election Commission of India. 2013. Retrieved 9 May 2013..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ "Members: Lok Sabha". loksabha.nic.in. Lok Sabha Secretariat. Retrieved 24 December 2018.


  3. ^ Why SUCI is the only genuine communist party in India


  4. ^ ab A brief introduction to the Socialist Unity Centre of India


  5. ^ SUCI critique on Naxal movement


  6. ^ India Vision News Clip about SUCI's 2nd Party Congress (In Malayalam)


  7. ^ India Vision News Clip – SUCI Party Congress inauguration (in Malayalam)


  8. ^ News&contentId=6269200&tabId=11&BV_ID=@@@ Nihar Mukherjee again elected as SUCI's General Secretary "(In Malayalam)"


  9. ^ SUCI rechristens itself as SUCI (Communist)


  10. ^ Key Highlights of General Elections, 1967 to The Fourth Lok Sabha Archived 10 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine.


  11. ^ SUCI(C) banks on a doctor


  12. ^ SUCI fields 40 candidates


  13. ^ "Leading Candidate Jaynagar Live West Bengal Elections Results, 2016 - NDTV.com". m.ndtv.com. Retrieved 2017-03-17.


  14. ^ Balan S.S, Wednesday, 21 February 2008, Viplavathintte Kudumbayogam (in Malayalam; Family of Revolutionaries), Kerala Kaumudi Online Edition (Malayalam Daily). Retrieved on 22 February 2008. [1]


  15. ^ Athul Lal AG, 1 April 2009, For Whom Fund Raising is Transparent, Indian Express (National Daily), Thiruvananthapuram. Retrieved on 1 April 2009. [2]


  16. ^ Sreejan B, 26 April 2009, An uphill battle for the upright , Indian Express (National Daily), Thiruvananthapuram. Retrieved on 26 April 2009. [3] Archived 16 January 2016 at the Wayback Machine.


  17. ^ ab Singure issue triggers protests in Howrah


  18. ^ Singur has turned violent thanks to brutal and anti-people stance of ironic communist government of West Bengal


  19. ^ ab Singur: Medha Patkar visits dead girl's family


  20. ^ ab Mamata resigns from LS


  21. ^ ab Extend support to Nandigram people: SUCI


  22. ^ ab SUCI Protests against repression in Nandigram


  23. ^ ab Nandigram turns blood red


  24. ^ ab Cancel SEZs in Bengal, Buddha urged


  25. ^ SUCI demand


  26. ^ Row over Moolampally rehabilitation package


  27. ^ Aid for the family of deceased Vedi worker


  28. ^ SUCI takes out march


  29. ^ SUCI alleges CPI betrayed anti-Posco people in Orissa


  30. ^ Trinamool-SUCI front organises first rally


  31. ^ Trinamool Congress to tie up with SUCI


  32. ^ CNN-IBN website


  33. ^ West Bengal's Jyothi Basu – A political people, Page 27


  34. ^ A defiant rebel


  35. ^ Populist Governance Archived 18 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine.


  36. ^ Millions Rise Up For Total Bangla Bandh (total General Strike)


  37. ^ Bandh call banks on past success


  38. ^ Twist of the mother tongue


  39. ^ abcdefghijklmno How much do you know about SUCI?


  40. ^
    • 2011: The movement against anti eviction drive at Ranchi, Jharkhand. Forming a public Committee "BASTI BACHAO SANGRASH SAMITI". Lakhs of people protested against government forceful campaign .

    Trinamool-sponsored strike paralyses life in West Bengal


  41. ^ 12-hour shutdown against price rise in West Bengal


  42. ^ Provash Ghosh, SUCI General Secretary, Mathrubhumi Online, 5 March 2010, Kerala News (In Malayalam)


  43. ^ SUCI General Secretary Nihar Mukherjee demised, Malayala Manorama, 20 February 2010, Page 9


  44. ^ "Nihar Mukherjee again SUCI's General Secretary (In Malayalam)


  45. ^ PE05152005.p65


  46. ^ SUCI protest against price hike


  47. ^ SUCI will field candidates in Gujarat elections


  48. ^ PE11012009.p5


  49. ^ CNN-IBN Website


  50. ^ SUCI banks on a doctor


  51. ^ State Elections 2006 – Partywise Comparison for 103-Joynagar Constituency of West Bengal


  52. ^ The Second United Front Archived 12 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine.


  53. ^ SUCI banks on doctors


  54. ^ Key Highlights of General Election, 1967 to The Legislative Assembly of West Bengal Archived 10 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine.


  55. ^ Key Highlights of General Election, 1967 to The Legislative Assembly of West Bengal Archived 10 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine.


  56. ^ Ganadabi


  57. ^ "SUCI-TMC alliance ends soon after West Bengal polls". Jagran Post. Retrieved 2017-03-18.






External links








  • Marxists Internet Archive: Shibdas Ghosh — Marxists Internet Archive


  • Proletarian Era — a SUCI publication


  • Ganadabi — a SUCI publication in Bengali




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