May Day special: When a Bengali revolutionary founded the Mexican Communist Party | Research News, The Indian Express

May Day special: When a Bengali revolutionary founded the Mexican Communist Party | Research News, The Indian Express

Written by Adrija Roychowdhury |New Delhi |Updated: May 1, 2019 2:29:00 pm

May Day special: When a Bengali revolutionary founded the Mexican Communist Party

M N Roy, who left India during this period to raise funds, soon found himself intimately involved in the growing Communist struggle across the world.

Under the influence of the Bolshevik revolution that had broken out in 1917, Roy along with the American Leftists and Mexican unionists and anarchists founded the Mexican Communist Party (PCM) in November 1917.

The October Revolution in Russia also ignited the spark of left wing ideology in India and other parts of the world. By the second decade of the 20th century, the political thinking in India swung between Gandhian ideology and radical Communism, so much so that Bengali militant nationalist Manabendra Nath Roy became one of the founders of global Communism.