- Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Flag
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Flag (CPI (ML) Red Flag) was a
political party inIndia . CPI (ML) Red Flag was formed in1988 as a break-away from theCentral Reorganization Committee, CPI(ML) . The party's main base of support was inKerala , where it emerged as the major ML faction. It also expanded to other states includingKarnataka ,Madhya Pradesh ,Maharashtra ,Chhattisgarh , andOrissa . The party head office was located inDelhi .The All India Secretary of the party was K.N. Ramachandran.In
2003 a large section of the party inKerala , including the majority in the Kerala State Committee, broke away, and are running a parallel CPI (ML) Red Flag. The split was led by the Kerala state secretary of the party, P.C. Unnichekan, and Jayakumar. This party is continues to use the name CPI(ML) Red Flag.The main mass organization of the party was the
Trade Union Centre of India (TUCI). Regional mass organizations of the party includedYuvajanavedi , Kerala Vidyarthi Sanghatana(Kerala Students Organization, a student's wing) and Janakeeya Kala Sahitya Vedi(a cultural front) in Kerala, andAdivasi Democratic Front inMadhya Pradesh .CPI (ML) Red Flag published Red Star (English), "Iykya Horatta" (
Kannada ) "Saghavu" (Malayalam ).Ahead of the
Lok Sabha elections in2004 CPI(ML) Red Flag and CPI (ML) took the initiative to form a united front of revolutionary communists. In that front they were able to gather, more than CPI (ML) and CPI (ML) Red Flag,Centre of Communist Revolutionaries (West Bengal ),Lal Nishan Party (Leninvadi) ,Marxist Communist Party of India ,Marxist-Leninist Committee ,New Socialist Movement, Gujarat ,Provisional Central Committee, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) andBhagat Singh Vichar Manch .In
Kerala a Left Front was formed ahead of the elections together withBTR-EMS-AKG Janakeeya Samskarika Vedi of V.B. Cheriyan.CPI (ML) Red Flag merged with
Kanu Sanyal 's Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) at a unity conference inVijayawada January2005 ee also
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Right now only one CPIML redflag becouse Com.K.N.Ramachandran has joined in CPI(ML)
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