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{{Infobox political party

| name             = Communist Consolidation

| colorcode        = Red

| foundation      = {{start date and years ago|26th April 1935|df=yes}} at [[Andaman and Nicobar Islands|Andaman]], [[Cellular Jail]]

| ideology        = {{ubl|[[Indian nationalism]]|[[Communism]]|[[Marxism–Leninism]]}}

| headquarters     = [[Cellular Jail]], [[Port Blair]], [[Andaman and Nicobar Islands]], (upto 1947)

| country          = India

| founder         = [[Hare Krishna Konar]]

| dissolved       = {{end date|15th August 1947|df=yes}}

| colors          = {{color box|red}} [[Red]]

| merged          = [[Communist Party of India]]

| newspaper        = "The Call"

| position        = [[Left-wing politics|Left-wing]]

| slogan          = "[[Inquilab Zindabad]]"<br/>"[[Workers of the world, unite!|Duniya ke Mazdooron ek ho]]"

{{Anushilan Samiti}}

'''Communist Consolidation''' (26 April 1935{{snd}}15 August 1947) was an [[Indian independence movement|Indian independence]] and [[Communism|communist]] organization, formed among the prisoners of the [[Cellular Jail]] in the [[Andaman and Nicobar Islands]] on 26 April 1935. It was the largest resistance group against [[British Raj|British rule]] in the Cellular Jail, and the historical 36-day [[hunger strike]] in 1937 was led by this organization. Many legendary [[freedom fighter]]s were members of this [[organization]], which had the goals of uprooting British rule and creating a communist [[India]].<ref name="sanyal">{{Cite book|last=Sanyal|first=Sachindranath|title=Bandi Jeevan|date=2017-01-01|publisher=[[Sachindra Nath Sanyal]]|year=2017|isbn=8184408978|language=Hindi}}</ref>

The history of Communist Consolidation is older than, when the group was formed in 1935. On 12 May 1933, some of the prisoners of [[Cellular Jail]] gathered and started a [[hunger strike]], causing the deaths of [[Mahavir Singh (revolutionary)|Mahavir Singh]], [[Mohan Kishore Namadas]], and [[Mohit Moitra]]. The [[British Raj]] acceded to the demands of the freedom fighters to stop the hunger strike and finally after 46 days hunger strike end on 26 June 1933.

== Formation in 1935 ==

In 1935, Communist Consolidation was founded by 39 inmates, but the main mastermind to form this group was [[Hare Krishna Konar]]. The maximum of its founders belong to the minority tendency of the [[Marxism|Marxist]] and [[Communism|Communist]] or [[Jugantar]] part of [[Anushilan Samiti]]. Although this was a secret revolutionary group and the members of this organization swelled higher and higher.<ref name="majumdar">{{Cite book|last=Majumdar|first=Ramesh Chandra|title=Penal Settlement in Andamans|publisher=Government of India|year=1975|location=Delhi|pages=339|language=English}}</ref><ref name="acjhistory" />

 

They only used the [[Class conflict|Class Struggle]] and [[Political slogan|Political Slogan]] “The “[[Inquilab Zindabad]]” and “[[Workers of the world, unite!|Duniya ke Mazdooron ek ho]]” because they claimed that at first they were [[Nationalism|Nationalist]] [[Prisoner|Prisoners]] but after the formation of Communist Consolidation and reading about the principal of  [[Socialism]], [[Marxism]] and [[Communism]] they started believing themself as a [[Politics|Political]] [[Prisoner|Prisoners]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Saha|first=Murari Mohan|title=Documents of the Revolutionary Socialist Party|publisher=Lokayata Chetana Bikash Society|year=2001|location=Agartala|pages=21}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2007-03-11|title=The legend who survived Saaza-E-Kaalapani|url=http://tripurainfo.com/cgi-bin/news/display.cgi?MODE=ShowDetails&ID=27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311111509/http://tripurainfo.com/cgi-bin/news/display.cgi?MODE=ShowDetails&ID=27|archive-date=2007-03-11|access-date=2022-02-10|website=www.tripurainfo.com}}</ref>

 

 

== Members ==

The organization's membership expanded rapidly to more than 800 inmates.

*[[Hare Krishna Konar]], Founder of this organization, on April 1935<ref>{{Cite web|date=|title=Revolutionaries: Section 'K'|url=http://www.andamancellularjail.org/K1.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060714121042/http://www.andamancellularjail.org/K1.htm|archive-date=2006-07-14|access-date=2022-02-10|website=Andaman Cellular Jail}}</ref>

*[[Batukeshwar Dutt]]<ref>{{Cite web|date=2006-05-03|title=Revolutionaries: Section 'D'|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060503013636/http://www.andamancellularjail.org/D1.htm|access-date=2022-02-10|website=web.archive.org}}</ref>

*[http://radhikaranjan.blogspot.com/2013/04/ananta-kumar-chakraborty-bholada-1901.html?m=1 Ananta Chakroborty]

 

== References ==