Nepal Communist League

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People Tulsi Lal Amatya Keshar Jung Rayamajhi Man Mohan Adhikari Pushpa Lal Shrestha Sahana Pradhan Mohan Bikram Singh Jhala Nath Khanal Madan Bhandari C. P. Mainali Khadga Prasad Oli Madhav Kumar Nepal Baburam Bhattarai Pushpa Kamal Dahal
History Revolution of 1951 1953 Kathmandu municipal election Jhapa rebellion Sector Kanda 1990 People's Movement 1991 general election People's Multiparty Democracy Adhikari cabinet Nepalese Civil War 2002 Achham incident 2004 Beni attack Second Battle of Khara 2006 Democracy Movement Comprehensive Peace Accord 1st Nepalese Constituent Assembly 2013 Constituent Assembly elections Constitution of Nepal 2015 2021 split in Nepalese communist parties
Principles Agrarian socialism Anti-imperialism Federalism Left-wing populism Left-wing nationalism Marxism–Leninism Maoism Multi-party democracy People's war Representative democracy Welfare
Current organisations ANDYA ANDYA (RJM) ANNFSU ANNISU (R) ANNISU (Sixth) (RJM) ANNISU (Unified) ANWA (R) CPN (2013) CPN (Maoist) (2014) CPN (Maoist Centre) CPN (Marxist) (2006) CPN (Masal) (2006) CPN (ML) (2002) CPN (MLM) Samyabadi CPN (United) CPN (UML) CPN (Revolutionary Maoist) GEFONT Jatiya Samata Samaj Nepal Rastriya Dalit Mukti Sangathan Nepal Samyabadi Dal Nepal Utpidit Dalit Jatiya Mukti Samaj NWPP NNTA NPSF NRSU PLA RJM YCL
Defunct organisations ANCRCC (ML) ANNFSU (Sixth) Barre Sangarsh Samuha Communist League CPN (2006) CPN (4th Convention) CPN (Amatya) CPN (Burma) CPN (D) CPN (Janamukhi) CPN (Manmohan) CPN (Marxist) (1st) CPN (Marxist) (2nd) CPN (Masal) CPN (Masal) (1999) CPN (Mashal) CPN (Matri Samuha) CPN (ML) CPN (ML) (1998) CPN (MLM) CPN (MLM Centre) CPN (Pushpa Lal) CPN (UC) CPN (UC–M) CPN (UM) CPN (Unified) CPN (United) CPN-ML (Samajbadi) Janamorcha Nepal Mukti Morcha Samuha NCL NCP Nepal Red Communist Party NWPO (D.P. Singh) NWPO (Hareram Sharma) NRO (ML) NSP (Malema) People's Democratic United Front Proletarian Communist League Proletarian Revolutionary Organisation, Nepal Rebel Unity Centre Revolutionary Communist Organisation, Nepal Revolutionary Communist Organising Committee Revolutionary Left Wing Sandesh Samuha SJM ULF (1990) ULF (2002) UNPM
Related topics Elections in Nepal History of Nepal List of communist parties in Nepal Marxism–Leninism–Maoism Prachanda Path Nepalese democracy movement Politics of Nepal Socialist Front Women in the Nepalese Civil War
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The Nepal Communist League (Nepali: Nepal Samyabadi Sangh) was a communist organisation in Nepal. NCL was led by Shambhuram Shrestha. Shrestha, who had been a central secretariat member of the original Communist Party of Nepal, broke away from Man Mohan Adhikari's faction in the mid-1970s.

During the Jana Andolan, the 1990 popular uprising against the monarchy, the group formed part of the radical United National People's Movement. NCL took part in the Joint People's Agitation Committee, which had called for a general strike on April 6, 1992. Violence erupted in the capital during the strike, and according to the human rights NGO Huron,14 people were killed in police firing.

Ahead of the local body election that year, the Nepal Communist League formed a front together with the Samyukta Janamorcha Nepal, Nepal Workers Peasants Party, Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist) and Communist Party of Nepal (15 September 1949). The group merged into the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) during the 1990s.