Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)


The Socialist Unity Centre of India or SUCI, previously called the 'Socialist Unity Centre of India and "Socialist Unity Centre" is a communist party in India. The party was founded by Shibdas Ghosh, Nihar Mukherjee and others in 1948.

Ideology

SUCI is a communist party in India, and follows a Marxist-Leninist ideological line formulated by Shibdas Ghosh. The party rejects political ideas such as glasnost and perestroika as revisionist, and claims to uphold the original intent of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, and the thoughts of Ghosh.
SUCI holds that India is a capitalist country with monopoly capitalism and imperialist trends. In line with that analysis, the party works toward a socialist revolution, rather than a people's democratic revolution, a national democratic revolution or a new democratic revolution.
SUCI leadership emphasises the qualitative upliftment of party cadres, workers of mass-organisations and supporters, by both theoretical study of Marxism-Leninism-Shibdas Ghosh Thought and the practical application of such knowledge in the day-to-day life of party workers. In various publications of the party, SUCI upholds the proletarian cultural standard, which, according to the leadership, should be achieved by the cadres, before they can lead the masses in the Socialist Revolution.
The 1st SUCI Party Congress was held in Kolkata in 1988. The 2nd party congress was held from 11–17 November 2009 in Ramlila Maidan, New Delhi attended by thousands of participants from 22 states and observers from several foreign countries. The current political line of the party was formulated in the 2nd party congress. The party's name was changed from Socialist Unity Centre of India to Socialist Unity Centre of India at the second party congress.

Parliamentary politics

From its inception, SUCI took part in parliamentary elections and was part of the United Front governments in West Bengal in 1967–1969 and 1969–1970 together with CPI and others. The party had a Member of Parliament in the 4th Lok Sabha from Jaynagar. The SUCI had presence in the legislative assemblies of Assam, Bihar and Orissa at various times. In the 2004 Lok Sabha elections SUCI launched 56 candidates, 30 of them from West Bengal. In the 2009 Lok Sabha elections SUCI declared 40 candidates from 12 states.
As of 2009, Tarun Mondol, representing Jaynagar in West Bengal, was party's sole and last MP. After 2014 Loksabha and 2016 Bidhansabha Elections, it has no MP or MLA from India.

Current situation

SUCI members live in communes wherein they lead a simple life style. Day-to-day upkeep of the commune and the well being of the children of party members living in the communes are taken care by the shared efforts of party members. Major income of the party is from box collection in the streets and house to house collection; members who are employed hand in their salaries to the party. The party contests elections with the money collected through this transparent fund raising method.
The stronghold of the party is in the South 24 Parganas, West Bengal, in areas such as Jaynagar Majilpur where it controls certain municipalities.
SUCI is actively involved in the ongoing anti-Special Economic Zone movements in India. The most notable of these movements that the party is active in are:
The party has formed a political front in West Bengal with All India Trinamool Congress to fight the Communist Party of India on an agreement that the alliance will maintain equidistance from the Indian National Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party.
The party won the Jaynagar constituency in the 2009 general elections with a majority of 53,676 votes.
, Founder General Secretary of SUCI
on 3 March 2010

Campaigns

The Gherao principle was introduced as a formal mode of protest in the trade union sector by Subodh Banarjee, who was a central committee member of SUCI and the PWD and Labor Minister in the 1967 and 1969 United Front Governments in West Bengal, respectively.
One of the major campaigns of the party in West Bengal has been its agitations against the educational policy of the Left Front state government. The decision of the Left Front government to remove the English language from primary education sparked a mass movement led by the SUCI for the reinstatement of English.
Below is a chronological list of campaigns organised by the SUCI in West Bengal:
, announcing 'SUCI day' rally on 24 April

Leadership

is the current leader of the party. He was elected as the General Secretary of the party by the central committee on 4 March 2010.
After Shibdas Ghosh's death in 1976, Nihar Mukherjee, a co-founder of SUCI, became the General Secretary. Mukherjee died of cardiac arrest on 18 February 2010 at Kolkata.
The central committee members of the party are:
The incumbent central committee and politburo was elected in the 2nd party congress.
Secretaries of the State Committees of the party are:
Secretaries of the State Organising Committees are:
The MP of the party is:
The MLA of the party is:
The former ministers of SUCI in West Bengal:
The former MP of the party was:
The former MLAs of the party were:
The principal mass organisations of SUCI are:
The central organ of SUCI is the Proletarian Era, an English forthnighly published from Kolkata.
The state committees of the party publishes:
They are often criticized by the other Left parties for supporting a nondemocratic anti-communist party like TMC, to defeat the Left Government. After breaking the alliance with TMC, Provash Ghosh said in a press statement, "The CPI government had turned ‘anti-people’ therefore it was extremely important to end their 34-year tenure in the state", he also added, “Our main target of dislodging the CPI government has been achieved, and we are no longer an ally of TMC. We are ready to sit in opposition.”.