Marxist Co-ordination Committee

Marxist Co-ordination Committee
Marxist Co-ordination Committee
Abbreviation	MCC
General Secretary	Arup Chatterjee
Headquarters	Ranchi, Jharkhand
Ideology	Communism; Marxism-Leninism
Political position	Left-wing
National affiliation	CPIML(L) (Jharkhand)
Colours	Red
	Politics of India; Political parties; Elections;

The Marxist Co-ordination Committee (MCC, Template:Lang-hi, abbreviated मासस 'maasas') is a political party in Jharkhand, India. MCC is based in the coal mining region of Dhanbad.

Originally founded as Janwadi Kisan Sangram Samiti (Template:Lang-en) was formed in 1971 after local communist leader A. K. Roy had been expelled from the Communist Party of India (Marxist). JKSS was later renamed to the MCC. The party is still led by Roy, who has been elected MP three times.

Roy was active in the Jharkhand movement and helped develop the organisation which would later become Jharkhand Mukti Morcha. As Jharkhand Mukti Morcha developed into a political party, the relations between the two soured.

In 1980, A. K. Roy (then an MP) and K.S. Chatterjee, a member of the Bihar Legislative Assembly, were arrested under the National Security Act. In total, Roy has been jailed four times.

Chatterjee had been elected to the Bihar Legislative Assembly twice as an Independent candidate. He joined the Indian National Congress and won in 1985 on a Congress ticket. He is a prominent trade union leader in the Dhanbad region and is the President of Bihar Pradesh Colliery Mazdoor Congress.

In 1998, the only member of the Bihar Legislative Assembly representing the MCC, Gurudas Chatterjee, was murdered by the coal mafia. Chatterjee's son, Arup Chatterjee, took over his mandate after a by-poll.^{[citation needed]}

Marxist Co-ordination Committee always maintain good relation with CPIML(L) from the beginning.

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