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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Many Scholars have done pioneering research work on the state of agrarian relations and the history of peasant movement in the State of Bihar. In preparing this report we have relied heavily on their books and articles in matters of historical facts, statistics, quotes etc. In some cases, where our point of view converges with theirs we have borrowed their well-expressed descriptions. In particular, F.

-- Collection of Central Party School papers

22-24 June, 1994 in New Delhi

PUBLISHER’S NOTE

The Central Committee of CPI(ML) convened a Party School at the central level on 22-24 June, 1994 in New Delhi. Altogether 112 comrades from all the sectors of our Party work, among whom 12 were women, participated as students. Apart from this, four comrades of Lal Nishan Party (Leninist) also attended the school as fraternal participants.

This article, first published in Liberation Annual Nutnebr 2002, has been updated on the basis of two important documents released in May 2002 : (a) Document of the 20th State Conference of CPI(M) held in February 2002 and (b) Draft Agrarian Policy Document of the West Bengal Government.)

PUBLISHER’S NOTE

The Indian Institute of Marxist Studies has produced this booklet compiling articles, speeches, notes and interviews representing CPI(ML)’s views on imperialist globalisation and the Party's commitment to the vision of glorious socialist future of the humankind.

Arindam Sen is a Central Committee Member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) and Director of Indian Institute of Marxist Studies.

Vinod Mishra was General Secretary of CPI(ML) from 1974 to the day of his untimely demise on 18 December 1998.

Publisher’s Note

The Indian Institute of Marxist Studies is planning to reprint a series of Marxist classics to help new readers get acquainted with the Marxist worldview. The Communist Manifesto marks the beginning of this series. In this edition we have included, in addition to the original text of the classic together with the Prefaces written jointly by Marx and Engels and by Engels alone, Vinod Mishra’s Foreword to a Hindi edition of the classic published by Samkaleen Prakashan in November 1998 and an Introduction to this edition by Arindam Sen.