Socialist Unity Centre of India

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Socialist Unity Center of India
Leader	Nihar Mukherjee
Founded	1948
Main Office	48 Lenin Sarani, Kolkata - 700 013, India
Alliance	Independent
Ideology	Marxism-Leninism, Shibdas Ghosh thoughts
Publications	Proletarian Era
Website	www.suci.in
See also	Politics of India Political parties in India Elections in India

Contents 1 Introduction 2 Ideology 3 Parliamentary politics 4 Current situation 5 Leadership 6 Mass organizations 7 Publications 8 References 9 External links

[edit] Introduction

The Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI) is an Indian communist political party. SUCI was founded by Shibdas Ghosh in 1948.

[edit] Ideology

SUCI describes itself as the only genuine communist party in India^[1], and follows an ideology Ghosh described as closely following Marxism-Leninism. It rejects political ideas such as glasnost and perestroika as revisionist, and intends to uphold the original intent of Karl Marx, Lenin, Mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin, and others.^[2]

In difference to most other communist factions in India, SUCI analyses India as a capitalist country. In line with that analysis, the party works for Socialist Revolution, rather than People's Democratic Revolution (like CPI(M)) or National Democratic Revolution (like CPI).

SUCI denounces all naxalite and Maoist activities ^[3].

[edit] 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 SUCI had a presence in the legislative assemblies of Assam, Bihar and Orissa at various times. As of 2006, it has two MLAs in West Bengal and one in Orissa.

In the 2004 Lok Sabha elections SUCI launched 56 candidates, 30 of them from West Bengal.

[edit] Current situation

SUCI stands out amongst other Indian left groups as a hardline cadre party. Party members live in party communes.

The foremost stronghold of the party is in South 24 Parganas, West Bengal, in areas such as Joynagar were it controls certain municipalities.

[edit] Leadership

After Ghosh's death in 1976, Nihar Mukherjee, a co-founder of SUCI, became the General Secretary. Secretaries of the State Committees of the party are:

• Andhra Pradesh: K. Sridhar
• Assam: Kalyan Choudhury
• Bihar: Shiv Shankar
• Delhi: Pratap Samal
• Haryana: Satyavan
• Karnataka: K. Radhakrishna
• Kerala: C.K Lukose
• Orissa: Tapas Dutta
• Uttar Pradesh: V.N. Singh
• West Bengal: Provash Ghosh

In Madhya Pradesh the party has a State Organising Committee. The coordinator of that committee is Uma Prasad.^[4]

[edit] Mass organizations

The principal mass organizations of SUCI are:

• United Trade Union Centre-Lenin Sarani
• All India Democratic Students Organisation
• All India Democratic Youth Organisation
• All India Mahila Sanskritik Sanghathan

[edit] Publications

The central organ of SUCI is the Proletarian Era, an English forthnighly published from Kolkata. Regional organs of the party includes:^[5]

• Ganadabi (Bangla weekly, published from Kolkata)
• Ganamukti (Assame montly, published from Guwahati)
• Karmika Drushtikona (Kannada monthly, published from Bangalore)
• Pattali Chinthanai (Tamil monthly, published from Chennai)
• Sarbahara (Oriya montly, published from Bhubaneswar)
• Sarbahara Dristhikon (Hindi forthnighly, published from Delhi)
• Socialist Viplavam (Telugu monthly, published from Hyderabad)
• Unity (Malayalam monthly, published from Thiruvananthapuram)
• Proletarian Era (English monthly, published from Kolkata)

[edit] References

1. ^ Ghosh, Shibdas, Why SUCI is the only genuine communist party in India
2. ^ SUCI, A brief introduction to the Socialist Unity Centre of India.
3. ^ SUCI critique on Naxal movement
4. ^ [1]
5. ^ SUCI

[edit] External links

• Socialist Unity Centre of India — official web page
• Proletarian Era — a SUCI publication