Moni Guha

Guha was born to a Bengali lower-middle-class family whose economic circumstances did not allow him to complete his school education.

[2] Guha, who had condemned the 20th congress within weeks of its holding, was one of the first anti-revionist dissidents in the international communist movement.

[2] People T. Nagi Reddy Moni Guha Shamsher Singh Sheri Mass organisations Wahikar Union Predecessors

In the early 1970s, Guha, Sunil Sen Gupta, and Shanti Rai founded the West Bengal Co-ordination Committee of Revolutionaries (WBCCR).

[2] In 1975 he took part in the founding of the Unity Centre of Communist Revolutionaries of India (Marxist–Leninist) (UCCRI(ML)) and became one of the five Central Committee members of the new party.

After breaking with UCCRI(ML) in 1978, Guha formulated a position that India had become a capitalist country and was thus ripe for socialist revolution.