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Communist Party of India-Maoist

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Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M). Component groups include the Maoist Communist Center of India (MCC), People's War Group (PWG) and the People’s Liberation Guerilla Army (PLGA). The CPI-M and other Indian left-wing extremist groups are known broadly as Naxalites, named after a militant uprising in May 1967 in the West Bengal town of Naxalbari. The group should not to be confused with the Communist Party of India or the Communist Party of India-Marxist (also CPI-M), both of...

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