Moni Guha

Moni Guha (Bengali: মনি গুহা; 29 September 1914, Madaripur – 7 April 2009, Kolkata) was an Indian communist.

Guha was born to a Bengali lower-middle-class family whose economic circumstances did not allow him to complete his school education. He joined the struggle for Indian independence, and became an activist of Anushilan Samiti in Faridpur. He was jailed because of his political activities. In prison he met communist leaders, and in the 1940s he became a member of the Communist Party of India.

In the latter part of his life, Guha was accorded pension as a freedom fighter.

Guha moved to Calcutta in 1947. He had close contacts with party leaders such as Muzaffar Ahmed and Abdul Halim. He was also active in the Tebhaga movement, and was again imprisoned for a period. After being released from jail he was a trade union organiser amongst factory workers in Calcutta.

He sharply criticized the new line adopted at the 20th congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and published a pamphlet with his views (which he handed out to delegates at the 1958 congress of the Communist Party of India). Guha, who had condemned the 20th congress within weeks of its holding, was one of the first anti-revionist dissidents in the international communist movement. Subsequently, Guha was expelled from the Communist Party.

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