- Andhra Pradesh Coordination Committee of Communist Revolutionaries
Andhra Pradesh Coordination Committee of Communist Revolutionaries (APCCCR) was a leftist split from the
Communist Party of India (Marxist) in the state ofAndhra Pradesh . The leader of the group wasT. Nagi Reddy , who was a member of the legislative assembly in AP at the time. Other leading figures wereD.V. Rao ,Chandra Pulla Reddy andKolla Venkaiah . Both Reddy and Rao had been active in theTelangana armed struggle, and Rao had forumlated the "Andhra Thesis" of the CPI.APCCCR split from
CPI(M) after the CPI(M)Burdwan plenum in April 1968. When APCCCR split fromCPI(M) 11 of 14 district committees of CPI(M) inAndhra Pradesh sided with APCCCR. Around 60% of the CPI(M) membership in the state, 8000 people (according to an estimate made byCPI(M) leaderP. Sundarayya ), went over to the T. Nagi Reddy group. They were also able to win over the CPI(M) publication "Janashakti".APCCCR was affiliated to the
All India Coordination Committee of Communist Revolutionaries , but the group got expelled due to political differences. APCCCR advocated a mass line, whereas AICCCR denounced work in trade unions as "economism". APCCCR saw the issue of participating or boycotting elections as a tactical issue, whereas AICCCR saw as a strategic one. AICCCR accused APCCCR of lack of loyalty towards theCommunist Party of China .After the expulsion of APCCCR from AICCCR, AICCCR rapidly reorganized an Andhra branch, mainly drawing support from the
Srikakulam region. TheSrikakulam District Committee of APCCCR joinedCPI(ML) .APCCCR launched limited armed struggles in
Warangal ,Khammam ,Karimnagar ,Nalgonda ,East Godavari , etc.. APCCCR favoured combining mass movements and armed struggle, and opposed the annihilation line of CPI(ML).In April 1969 APCCCR issued a resolution called "Boycott
Panchayat Elections - Establishing VillageSoviets ".In December 1969 six out nine State Committee members of APCCCR were arrested at a hotel in
Madras , amongst themT. Nagi Reddy andD.V. Rao . The arrests were a heavy blow for the organization. In July 1970 a new state committee led byChandra Pulla Reddy was created.APCCCR was later renamed as Andhra Pradesh Committee of Communist Revolutionaries (alt. Andhra Pradesh Revolutionary Communist Committee).
In 1971 APCCR suffered a severe split, with the
Chandra Pulla Reddy -led group leaving the party. This group also used the name APCCR. This group merged with the CPI(ML) ofSatayanarayan Singh in 1973.In 1975 APCCR formed
Unity Centre of Communist Revolutionaries of India (Marxist-Leninist) together with Northern Zone CommitteeRevolutionary Communist Unity Centre (Marxist-Leninist) ,West Bengal Communist Unity Centre and WBCCR.
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