List of communist parties in India explained

This page contains a list of political parties in India that are aligned with the communist ideology.

Most Communist Parties in India trace their origin back to-

(i) Communist Party of India (Abbr. CPI)

(ii) Communist Party of India (Marxist) (Abbr. CPIM)

(iii) Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) (Abbr. CPIML)

Communist parties registered with the Election Commission of India

Communist Parties with National Party Status

!Election Symbol! Name! Founded!Ideology! Leader! Seats in
Lok Sabha! Seats in
Rajya Sabha! Seats in State
Assemblies! Seats in State
Councils

CPIM[1] [2]

[3] [4] [5]

Marxism–Leninism

Prakash Karat (interim)[6]

Communist parties with state party status

!Election Symbol! Name! Founded!Ideology! Leader! Recognised In! Seats in
Lok Sabha! Seats in
Rajya Sabha! Seats in State
Assemblies! Seats in State
Councils

	CPI		Marxism–Leninism	D. Raja	Kerala, Manipur, Tamil Nadu
	CPIML Liberation[7]	[8] [9] [10]	Marxism–LeninismMao Zedong Thought	Dipankar Bhattacharya[11] [12] [13]	Bihar[14]

Naxal-Maoist Parties

!NAME!IDEOLOGY!LEADER!BASE REGION

CPIML Red Star[15]	Marxism–Leninism–Maoism	K. N. Ramachandran
CPIML Class Struggle	Marxism–Leninism–Maoism	Visawam
CPIML New Democracy	Marxism–Leninism–Maoism	Yatendra Kumar

Naxal-Maoist Parties engaged in armed struggle

• CPI(Maoist)

Trotskyist Communist parties

• New Socialist Alternative (India)
• Radical Socialist (India)
• Bolshevik International Marxist Tendency India
• Workers' Socialist Party (India)

Trotskyist leaning Communist Parties

• Revolutionary Communist Party of India
• Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)

See also

• Left Front (India)
• Socialism in India
• Communism in India
• Communism in Kerala
• Naxalite
• List of political parties in India
• Politics of India
• List of Naxalite and Maoist groups in India

Notes and References

1. Book: Chakrabarty . Bidyut . 2014 . Communism in India: Events, Processes and Ideologies . . 314 . 978-0-19-997489-4.
2. Web site: List of Political Parties and Election Symbols main Notification Dated 18 January 2013 . Election Commission of India . 9 May 2013 . India . 2013.
3. Web site: ഇന്ത്യ - ചൈന സംഘർഷം : 1962 ൻ്റെ പാഠങ്ങൾ . www.leftclicknews.com/.
4. News: CIA papers trace split of Indian Communists . The Times of India . 30 June 2007 . en-IN.
5. Web site: Communist Party in Kerala . CPI(M) . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120314030901/http://www.kozhikodepartycongress.org/kerala-cpim-history.php . 14 March 2012.
6. News: Bureau . The Hindu . 2024-09-29 . Prakash Karat to be interim leader of CPI(M) . 2024-10-02 . The Hindu . en-IN . 0971-751X.
7. Web site: Amending Notification regarding Political Parties and their Symbols Dated 01.03.2021. Election Commission of India. 9 May 2013. India. 2013.
8. Web site: A Lesson In Dynamism And Dedication . Communist Party of India(Marxist-Leninist) Liberation . 22 February 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150923210847/http://www.cpiml.org/liberation/year_1999/january/homage11.htm . 23 September 2015 . dead.
9. Web site: Naxalism today .
10. Web site: The road from Naxalbari . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20061017003722/http://www.flonnet.com/fl2221/stories/20051021008801000.htm . 17 October 2006 . 22 February 2022 . www.flonnet.com.
11. Book: Sen, Jai. Imagining Alternatives. Daanish Books. 2012. 978-93-81144-14-5. Other worlds possible?. Gazipur. 15.
12. Web site: Organisation. cpiml.org.
13. Bhushan, Ranjit (2016). Maoism in India and Nepal. New York: Routledge. p. 27. ISBN 978-1-315-68549-6.
14. Web site: Amending Notification regarding Political Parties and their Symbol dated 1 March 2021 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20211026215944/https://eci.gov.in/files/file/12953-amending-notification-regarding-political-parties-and-their-symbol-dated-01032021/ . 26 October 2021 . live.
15. Web site: 2022-10-01 . 12th Congress Of CPI (ML) Red Star Calls For All Out Offensive Against RSS Fascism Countercurrents . 2024-05-03 . countercurrents.org . en-US.