Marxist Forward Bloc is political party in India, a splinter-group of the All India Forward Bloc. MFB was formed in 1953 as Satyapria Banerjee, a member of the AIFB Central Secretariat, Amar Bose, Suhurit Chaudhury and Ram Chatterji were expelled from AIFB. At its foundation, Satyapria Banerji was the party general secretary and Amar Bose its chairman.
MFB has been associated with the combined left movement since its inception. Its leader Ram Chatterjee was a minister in the Bengal Left Front Government for several years. Today MFB is led by Pratim Chatterjee, Fire services minister of West Bengal. Chatterjee represented the Tarakeswar seat in the legislative assembly until 2011. MFB is part of the Left Front.
In West Bengal assembly elections MFB contests Tarakeswar in Hoogly district and Jamalpur in Burdwan district seats as a Left Front partner. In the 2006 West Bengal legislative assembly election, the party retained both seats. In the Kolkata municipal polls in 2005, MFB contested in 2 wards as a Left Front partner. Biren Chakroborty who is the secretary of MFB was elected from ward no 57.
In the 2008 Panchayet polls, MFB has won seats in Panchayet, Panchayet Samity and ZP levels in Hoogly and Burdwan districts.
In 2010 municipal polls, MFB has lost its seat in Kolkata corporation. It has won a seat each at Rampurhat in Birbhum and Arambagh in Hooghly.
The party lost its representation in the legislative assembly in the 2011 election.
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