Samar Mukherjee (7 November 1913 – 18 July 2013) was an Indian Communist leader who served as member of the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India for the Howrah constituency for three consecutive terms, and as a member of the Rajya Sabha.
Samar, who was then only a Class VII-student, became a part of the students and teachers, who had convened a joint hartal in the school.
In March 1930, he joined the Civil Disobedience Movement at the call of Mahatma Gandhi, and conducted picketing in front of the wine shops, and against wearing foreign clothes.
On 7 July 1930 he joined and conducted a three-and-half months' long students strike in Pitambar High School, as part of the school-college boycott call given by the Indian National Congress.
In the same year, he was imprisoned under a false libel suit filed by police under Section 107, Indian Penal Code.
In 1936, Mukherjee met Bimal Roy, a Communist leader from Rangpur District, who was then under house arrest in Amta.
As the mouthpiece "Swadhinata" was captured by the revisionist section of the party, he changed the Marxist periodical "Howrah Hitoishee" into "Deshhitoishee".
Months earlier, leaders such as Muzaffar Ahmed, Hare Krishna Konar and Promode Dasgupta were arrested.
He was made a member of the Central Committee of the newly formed Communist Party of India (Marxist).
He used the pseudonym "Ashok Mukherjee" to write exhaustively in "Deshhitoishee" against the revisionist trends in Indian Communist parties.
Samar Mukherjee and M. Basavapunniah represented the CPI(M) in the 6th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea in October 1980.
In 1986, he was elected to the Rajya Sabha, and played pivotal part in the proper representation of demands of workers, peasants and employees.