Shibdas Ghosh (5 August 1923 – 5 August 1976) was an Indian

communist Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a s ...

politician. He was involved in the Communist movement in India for several decades. He was also the founding general secretary of

Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) The Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) or SUCI(C), previously called the Socialist Unity Centre of India and "Socialist Unity Centre", is an anti-revisionist Marxist-Leninist communist party in India. The party was founded by Shibda ...

.SUCI(C) Central Committee's Homage to Shibdas Ghosh
/ref> Ghosh was born in the

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of British India, to a lower-middle-class family. Passing 10th standard from his village school at the age of 13 he joined the

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to participate in the independence movement of India. He was attracted to

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's ideologies at a very early age. In 1942 he joined the

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movement. He was later arrested and incarcerated for three years. There he thoroughly studied Marxism-Leninism. Later along with some colleagues such as

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he organised SUCI(C) in 1948. He died on his 53rd birthday in 1976.

References

External links

SUCI (C) Central Committee's Homage to Shibdas Ghosh

Selected speeches

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