Communist Workers Party, a

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in the

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n state of

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. CWP was formed by

Jyotibhushan Bhattacharya Professor Jyotibhushan Bhattacharya (1 May 1926 – 1998) was an Indian politician and scholar. He served as general secretary of the Workers Party of India. He served as a Minister in both of the United Front governments in West Bengal. Youth B ...

, when the

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split in 1976. Bhattacharya was a professor of

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at Calcutta University and in 1967 he had become the first non-

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Education Minister of

. It used to publish the Bengali journal Gram-Nagar and an English monthly named Agenda. CWP changed its name to Workers Party in 1993. Professor Jyoti Bhattacharya died in the year 1998. He was well known as an eminent scholar and a Marxist theoretician.

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