Role of Socialist Organizations in the Freedom Struggle of Bihar

Abstract

In Bihar, the Communist Party of India and the Congress Samajwadi Party, two powerful organizations played an unprecedented role in the development of the Left. The main driving force behind this was the culmination of the Russian Revolution of 7 November 1917. Many youngsters who actively participated in the Non-Cooperation Movement were unhappy with its results. In the Gandhian policies and the alternative Swaraji or Swarajist programs arising out of this, this budding youth began to throw up many demerits. For this, they tried to bring socialist ideas straight to the ground. By this time, organizations of socialists and communists had formed in different parts of India. In Bombay, Amrit Shripad Dange printed and distributed a paper called "Gandhi and Lenin". He published a weekly magazine called The Socialist. Muzaffar Ahmed published "Navyug" magazine in Calcutta. Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam published "Bengal" magazine.