All Nepal National Free Students Union
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The All Nepal National Free Students Union (Nepali: अखिल नेपाल राष्ट्रिय स्वतन्त्र विद्यार्थी युनियन, abbreviation अनेरास्ववियु) is a student based organisation in Nepal. The ANNFSU was founded in 1965. The original ANNFSU was later divided along ideological lines, and there are several organisations that emerged out of it. The main ANNFSU grouping today is politically tied to the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist). As well as declaring itself a legitimate and independent students' organisation of all progressive, democratic and patriotic students of Nepal, the mainstream ANNFSU is currently a member of the World Federation of Democratic Youth.
[edit] History
The organisation was founded in 1965, and was associated with the pro-China trend of the Nepalese communist movement. ANNFSU did however remain as a united organisation, in spite of various splits amongst the radical communists. The ANNFSU gained prominence as an activist movement in a period when large sections of the established communist movement remained in jail.
In 1979 ANNFSU was split. One section would be known as ANNFSU (Fifth) (which was tied to the Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist)) and the other grouping became known as ANNFSU (Sixth) (which was connected to the Communist Party of Nepal (Fourth Convention). The former group is the current mainstream ANNFSU connected to CPN(UML).
In 1992 the students wing of the Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist), the Nepal Progressive Students Union, merged with ANNFSU.[1]
[edit] See also
- Nepal Revolutionary Students' Union (the student wing of the Nepal Workers' and Peasants' Party)
- All Nepal National Free Students Union (Unified) (the student wing of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unity Centre-Masal))
- Nepal Progressive Student Federation (the student wing of the Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist))
- All Nepal National Free Students Union (Revolutionary) (the student wing of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
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Coordinates: 27°42′21.9″N 85°19′0.9″E / 27.706083°N 85.316917°E
