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{{short description|Indian revolution organization}}

{{Infobox political party

| colorcode        = Red

| spokesperson    = [[Shiv Verma]]<br>[[Hare Krishna Konar]]

| founder          = [[Hare Krishna Konar]]

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

| dissolved        = {{end date|1938|df=yes}}

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

| newspaper        = "The Call"

| membership      = 800 (1936)

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

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

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

| country          = India

{{Anushilan Samiti}}

'''Communist Consolidation''' (1935{{snd}}1938) was an [[Revolutionary movement for Indian independence|Indian revolutionary]] and [[Communism|communist]] organization, founded by [[Hare Krishna Konar]] among with other prisoners of the [[Cellular Jail]] with the ideology of [[Karl Marx|Marx]] and [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]]'s theory [[Marxism–Leninism]]. It was the largest resistance group against [[British Raj|British rule]] in the Jail, this organization also led the historical 36-days [[hunger strike]] in 1937 where the [[Government of the United Kingdom|British government]] had to bow before the demands of the political prisoners.<ref name="sanyal">{{Cite book|last=Sanyal|first=Sachindranath|title=Bandi Jeevan|date=2017-01-01|publisher=[[Sachindra Nath Sanyal]]|isbn=978-8184408973|language=Hindi}}</ref>

The history of Communist Consolidation starts before its official formation 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 members 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 |author-link=R. C. Majumdar}}</ref><ref name="acjhistory" />

They started a study circle named ''"A Veritable University of Freedom Fighters"'' and this group also started to teach about the principles of [[Socialism]], [[Marxism]] and [[Communism]] were explained, how [[October Revolution]] happened who was [[Karl Marx]], [[Friedrich Engels]] and finally in year 1936 the members of this organization claimed that they were fighting to uproot [[British Raj]] as well as to make the country totally [[Communism|Communist]] [[India|Country]].<ref name="acjhistory">{{Cite web|date=|title=History of Andaman Cellular Jail|url=http://www.andamancellularjail.org/History.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070113111037/http://www.andamancellularjail.org/History.htm|archive-date=2007-01-13|access-date=2022-02-10|website=Andaman Cellular Jail}}</ref>

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]]s 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]]s.<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>

The long hunger-strike movement in the Andamans in July and August 1937, led by the Communists, marked an important phase in India's national struggle. As nine-tenths of the total convicts in Andaman were from Bengal, the hunger strike of Andaman prisoners caused widespread outrage in Bengal where a strong movement for the release of political prisoners began.

== Members ==

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

*[[Hare Krishna Konar]], Founder of this organization, in 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>

*[[Niranjan Sengupta]]

*[[Sudhangshu Dasgupta]]

*[https://mayday.leftword.com/blog/post/the-photo-of-nalini-gupta Nalini Dasgupta]

*[[Kalipada Chakrabarty]]

*[[Lalmohan Sen]]

 

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