Marxist Coordination Committee

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Marxist Coordination Committee ( MCC ) is a small Marxist party in the coal mining area around the city of Dhanbad in the Indian state of Jharkhand .

Party history

The later party leader of MCC, AK Roy, originally worked as a chemical engineer in the heavy industry of Jharkhand. He was fired after supporting a workers' strike in 1966/67 and subsequently joined the Communist Party (Marxists) (CPI (M)). In the early 1970s, Roy, along with Binod Bihari Mahato and Shibu Soren, was one of the founders of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), a political party that called for the formation of a separate state of Jharkhand (Jharkhand was part of Bihar until 2000 ). JMM was initially strongly influenced by Marxist ideology, was inspired by Maoist ideas and did not always agitate non-violently against illegal land expropriations, especially of Adivasi farmers, and for an improvement in the working conditions of industrial workers. After Roy was excluded from the CPI (M) in 1973 because of ideological differences, he founded his own party, Janwadi Kisan Sangram Samiti ("Democratic Association for the Improvement of the Living Conditions of Peasants"), later the Marxist Coordination Committee (MCC), which initially worked with JMM was closely associated, but remained organizationally separate. In the 1980s, the alliance between JMM and the Marxist and communist groups fell apart. In the all- India parliamentary elections in 1977 , 1980 and 1989 , Roy was initially elected to the Lok Sabha as a formally independent and later as an MCC candidate in constituency 47-Dhanbad .

Since 1989 the party has not been able to win the constituency 47-Dhanbad in Jharkhand. In the all-India parliamentary election in 2014, it received 110,185 votes, which corresponds to 0.8% of all votes cast in Jharkhand. In the three elections to the parliament of the newly founded state of Jharkhand in 2005, 2009 and 2014, the party was able to win just over 100,000 votes and in 2009 and 2014 the constituency 39-Nirsa , but most recently only very narrowly against the BJP candidate . The party's longer-term political perspectives are therefore judged to be limited.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Candidate Watch: AK ROY. The Hindu, April 17, 2004, accessed October 19, 2015 .
  2. ^ Gautam Kumar Bera: The Unrest Axle: Ethno-social Movements in Eastern India. Mittal Publications New Delhi 2008, ISBN 81-8324-145-X . P. 51
  3. ↑ a b Election Results - Full Statistical Reports. Indian Election Commission, accessed on June 29, 2016 (English, election results of all Indian elections to the Lok Sabha and the parliaments of the states since independence).
  4. ^ Anil Ashutosh: Marxist Coordination Committee struggles to retain support base in Jharkhand. The Times of India, April 22, 2014, accessed June 29, 2016 .