Naxalbari and the Chinese Press – A Select Anthology – Edited by Aloke Mukherjee

The Naxalbari Upsurge (May 1967) is a momentous event in the history of independent India. The movement led by a section of Communist radicals gave a massive jolt to the existing economic and socio-political order of the country and introduced a set of new parameters. In popular expression, it came to be referred to as the Nasal movement-borrowing the name from its place of origin, a remote hamlet situated at the foot of the Himalayas in the northern part of the province of West Bengal. The movement drew ideological inspiration from the Chinese revolution of 1949, and, as a result, received much acclaim from the ruling Chinese Communist Party and its enigmatic leader Man Tse-tung The Chinese press, almost regularly, published reports and nows strips about the radical escapades of the Naxals in its various mouthpieces, and also. broadcasted them through Radio Peking. Some of these important publications are compiled in this volume.

Aloke Mukherjee (1944) is a loey figure of the Naxal movement After completing is graduation in Electrical Engineering from Bengal Engineering College. Sibpur he worked actively among the workers and peasants of Howrah and Birbhum districts in West Bengal and emerged as a part of the leadership of the West Bengal Bihar Bonder Regional Committee of undivided CPI-ML. At present he is a Central Committee member of his Party