East Pakistan Communist Party (Marxist–Leninist) was a communist party in the erstwhile

East Pakistan East Pakistan was the eastern province of Pakistan between 1955 and 1971, restructured and renamed from the province of East Bengal and covering the territory of the modern country of Bangladesh. Its land borders were with India and Burma, wit ...

. The party emerged in 1966, after a split in the

Communist Party of East Pakistan The Communist Party of Bangladesh (, abbreviated: CPB) is a communist and Marxism-Leninism, Marxist–Leninist political party in Bangladesh. History After the Partition of India, partitioning of India in 1947, during the Second Party Congr ...

. Sukhendu Dastidar became the general secretary of EPCP(M-L).

Bangladesh Liberation War and aftermath

In 1971,

Mohammad Toaha Mohammad Toaha (2 January 1922 – 29 November 1987) was a language activist of the 1952 language movement and a prominent left-wing politician from Bangladesh. Early life and education Toaha was born on 2 January 1922 at Hajirhat village in ...

and

Abdul Haq ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq (ALA-LC romanization of ) is an Arabic male given name, and in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words ''Abd (Arabic), ʻabd'' and ''al-Ḥaqq'', one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which give rise to the List of ...

refused to participate for the

independence of Bangladesh The independence of Bangladesh was Proclamation of Bangladeshi Independence, declared from Pakistan on 26 March 1971, which is now celebrated as Independence Day (Bangladesh), Independence Day. The Bangladesh Liberation War started on 26 March ...

. After the war two separate EPCP(M-L)s were formed, one led by Toaha's EPCP(M-L) which evolved into the Communist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist-Leninist) and the other led by

. Mohammad Toaha's party denounced Charu Majumdar's ideology of class annihilation. In 1978 Haque's party took the name

Revolutionary Communist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist-Leninist) A revolutionary is a person who either participates in, or advocates for, a revolution. The term ''revolutionary'' can also be used as an adjective to describe something producing a major and sudden impact on society. Definition The term—bot ...

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Communist parties in Bangladesh Political parties established in 1966 Communist parties in Pakistan 1966 establishments in East Pakistan {{CP-stub