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{{Short description|Indian politician}}
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'''Sisir Roy''' (1912–1960<ref name="Research1997">{{cite book|author=Indian Council of Historical Research|title=Towards freedom: documents on the movement for independence in India, 1943-1944|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fnoMAQAAMAAJ|date=1 November 1997|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=3509|isbn=978-0-19-563868-4}}</ref>) ([[Bengali language|''Bengali'']]: শিশির রায়) was an Indian communist politician and [[trade union]]ist. He served as general secretary of the [[Bolshevik Party of India]] and the [[United Trade Union Congress]], and was active in organizing dock workers in [[Calcutta]].

==Labour Party==
Roy's father worked as a technical officer at [[Tata Iron & Steel|Tata Iron & Steel Co]].<ref name="Research1997"/> Roy attracted with the revolutionary politics during his student days, and he was jailed.<ref name="Research1997"/> After being released from prison he began organizing labour unions.<ref name="Research1997"/> In 1933 he founded the Calcutta Port Dock Workers Union and became its general secretary.<ref name="Research1997"/> In the same year he took part in founding the Bengal Labour Party.<ref name="Research1997"/><ref name="Sadasivan1977">{{cite book|author=S. N. Sadasivan|title=Party and democracy in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lJ2KAAAAMAAJ|year=1977|publisher=Tata McGraw-Hill|pages=90–92|isbn=9780070965911}}</ref> The nucleus of the Bengal Labour Party became members of the [[Communist Party of India]].<ref name="Chowdhuri2007"/> Roy took part in events organized by the [[League Against Gandhism]].<ref name="Research1997"/> He played a leading role in the dock workers strike of 1934.<ref name="Research1997"/>

==Bolshevik Party leader==
In 1939 Roy and the other Bengal Labour Party leaders broke with CPI and founded the [[Bolshevik Party of India]].<ref name="Chowdhuri2007">{{cite book|author=S. Chowdhuri|title=Leftism in India, 1917–1947|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t_FZCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA205|date=7 November 2007|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK|isbn=978-0-230-28804-1|pages=205–206}}</ref> Around the time of the independence of India in 1947, Roy had become general secretary of BPI.<ref name="Sadasivan1977"/> During this period the trade unions led by BPI joined the [[United Trade Union Congress]] and Roy became the general secretary of UTUC.<ref name="Crouch1966">{{cite book|author=Harold A. Crouch|title=Trade Unions and Politics in India|url=https://archive.org/details/tradeunionspolit0000crou|url-access=registration|year=1966|publisher=Manaktalas|page=[https://archive.org/details/tradeunionspolit0000crou/page/233 233]}}</ref> He represented the union side in the Calcutta Dock Labour Board.<ref name="Research1997"/>

== Death and aftermath ==
Roy died in 1960.<ref name="Research1997"/><ref name="Crouch1966"/> Nepal Bhattacharya became the new general secretary of BPI after Roy's death.<ref name="Sadasivan1977"/> His sister, [[Sudha Roy]], took over his post as UTUC general secretary.<ref name="Sadasivan1977"/><ref name="Crouch1966"/>

==References==
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[[Category:1912 births]]
[[Category:1960 deaths]]
[[Category:Bolshevik Party of India politicians]]
[[Category:Trade unionists from West Bengal]]
[[Category:Politicians from Kolkata]]

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