Communist League of India (Marxist-Leninist)

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Communist League of India (Marxist-Leninist), was founded by [[a faction of Central Organising Committee, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)]]-Ram Nath group on February 20, 1978. CLI(ML) holds that India is a less developed but never the less a capitalist country and so the coming revolution will be a socialist one. Over the years this party got divided into numerous different factions. Now a days the faction led by RAMNATH publishes 'Lal Tara' in Hindi. They have a publication called 'Gargi publication'. Another faction led by SHASHI PRAKASH SINHA has a considerably big publication division operated from Lucknow and known by different names like 'Parikalpana' or 'Rahul' etc. They now a days are trying to build a trade union in Delhi. The third faction is led by RAVI PRAKASH SINHA. Publishes a tri-monthly called "Sandhan" in Hindi edited by Subhash Gatade. Organisationally the largest faction. Operates in Delhi, Gujarat,Punjab, Andhra pradesh, U P and Assam. The mass organisations are- 'Progressive Students' Union, Stree Adhikar Sangathan, Pragatishil Yuva Sangathan etc. This faction is trying to understand the problems of 20th century socialism from critical perspectives. This party-faction gives space to different schools of Marxist thought like the Trotskyite tradition, Frankfurt school, E P Thompsonian tradition, Structural Marxism etc. etc. The leaning of this faction towards new left is clear. It has published many books including "Globalisation Of Capital". It holds similar views with Eric Hobsbawm on globalisation. Among the most organized factions of CLI(ML), the fourth faction, is the Re-organizing Committee, Communist League of India (Marxist-leninist). It regularly publishes a party-organ called "Lal Salaam" every six months and maintains a web-site http://cli-ml.org This faction is mainly engaged in organizing industrial workers in Northern India.