Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Red Flag (CPI(ML) Red Flag) was a political party in India (1988-2005).
The party emerged in 1988, following a split in the K. Venu-led Central Reorganisation Committee, CPI(ML) in the wake of the 1987 second conference of CRC, CPI(ML) as a large section of the latter organisation in Kerala broke away and formed its own party. The Andhra Pradesh-based group of Raouf (which had been part of the CRC, CPI(ML) as well) joined the CPI(ML) Red Flag. It upheld Marxism-Leninism Mao Tse-Tung Thought as its ideological line, and rejected the term 'Maoism' whilst they also rejected the Three Worlds Theory. He died in 1997 while on a party tour in Mumbai.
The main mass organisation of the party was the Trade Union Centre of India (TUCI). Regional mass organisations of the party included Yuvajanavedi, Kerala Vidyarthi Sanghatana (Kerala Students Organisation, a student's wing) and Janakeeya Kala Sahitya Vedi (a cultural front) in Kerala, and Adivasi Democratic Front in Madhya Pradesh. CPI(ML) Red Flag published Red Star (English), Iykya Horatta (Kannada) and Saghavu (Malayalam).
2003 split
In 2003 a large section of the party in Kerala, including the majority in the Kerala State Committee, broke away, and created a parallel CPI(ML) Red Flag. The split was led by the Kerala state secretary of the party, P.C. Unnichekkan. That party continued to use the name CPI(ML) Red Flag and supported Left Democratic Front in Kerala.
CPI (ML) Red Flag merged with Kanu Sanyal's Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) at a unity conference in Vijayawada January 2005
See also
- :Category:Mass organisations of CPI(ML) Red Flag
- List of Naxalite and Maoist groups in India