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The '''All India Revolutionary Students Federation''' (AIRSF) was a frontal organisation of the [[Communist Party of India (Maoist)]].

==History==

The [[Radical Students Union]] (RSU) organised an all-India seminar in [[Madras]] in August 1981 to discuss the nationality question in India.
The Revolutionary Students' Organisations Co-ordination Committee (RSOCC) was formed as a follow-up step.
Four years later, in 1985 the All India Revolutionary Students' Federation held its first conference in [[Hyderabad, India|Hyderabad]].<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/venugopal290710p.html
|title=Killing Azad: Silencing the Voice of Revolution
|author=N Venugopal
|work=MR Zine
|year=2010
|accessdate=2012-04-26}}</ref>
[[Yalavarthi Naveen Babu]], later to become a senior Naxalite leader, became editor of the AIRSF magazine ''Kalam'' in 1990.<ref name=Myrdal2012>{{cite web
|url=http://sanhati.com/articles/4579/
|title=Delhi - Naveen Babu Memorial Lecture
|author=Jan Myrdal
|work=Sanhati
|date=6 February 2012
|accessdate=2012-04-27}}</ref>
The AIRSF was banned in [[Andhra Pradesh]], but in 2004 the state government lifted the ban to allow for peace talks.
While talks were underway the [[People's War Group]] (PWG) merged with [[Maoist Communist Centre]] (MCC) to form the Communist Party of India (Maoist).<ref name=Vanguard20090810/>

The Naxalites suffered a serious setback in 2005.<ref name=Reddy20111115/>
After Congress legislator C. Narsi Reddy was killed, on 17 August 2005 a ban was re-imposed in Andhra Pradesh on the Communist Party of India (Maoist) and its frontal organisations including the AIRSF and the [[Radical Youth League]].<ref name=Vanguard20090810/>
Bans were repeatedly reimposed, one year at a time. In August 2006 the ban was extended for a year.<ref>{{cite web
|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Andhra-extends-ban-on-Naxal-groups/articleshow/1885561.cms
|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130104043729/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2006-08-11/india/27795298_1_cpi-maoist-organisations-radical-youth-league
|url-status=live
|archive-date=4 January 2013
|title=Andhra extends ban on Naxal groups
|date=11 August 2006
|work=[[The Times of India]]
|access-date=2012-04-26}}</ref>
In August 2009 the Andhra Pradesh government extended the ban for another year.<ref name=Vanguard20090810/>
In August 2011 the ban was again extended for another year.<ref>{{cite web
|url=https://www.oneindia.com/2011/08/17/banon-communist-party-of-india-maoist-extended.html
|work=OneIndia
|title=Ban on Communist Party of India (Maoist) extended
|date=17 August 2011
|access-date=2012-04-26}}</ref>

==References==
<references>

<ref name=Reddy20111115>{{cite news
|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/article2627841.ece
|date=15 November 2011
|title=Maoists to float new body of students in tribal areas
|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]
|author=K. SRINIVAS REDDY
|accessdate=2012-04-26}}</ref>
<ref name=Vanguard20090810>{{cite web
|url=http://indianvanguard.wordpress.com/2009/08/10/andrapradesh-ban-on-cpi-maoist-and-front-organisations-extended-for-one-more-year/#more-2085
|work=Indian Vanguard
|title=Ban on CPI Maoist and front organisations extended for one more year
|date=10 August 2009
|accessdate=2012-04-26}}</ref>

</references>
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