Communist Ghadar Party of India

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The Communist Ghadar Party of India was founded on december 25, 1980. Ghadar means mutiny, a narrative abbreviation referring to the Indian Mutiny. (This name was also used by the Ghadar Party in the USA). At the time the Communist Party of India (CPI) and the Communist Party of India (Marxist), (CPI(M)), had both adopted a policy of parliamentarianism and support for the Soviet Union and the Naxalbari were fragmented. They opposed national oppression particularly in Punjab, Kashmir and Manipur and rejected defense of the centralised India state.

In December 1990 they held their first congress where they reflected upon the collapse of the Soviet Union, declaring "we are our own models". They concluded that "it is the workers and peasants, women and youth, organised in their collectives, who should rule". They recognised that the communist movement is one, and rejected social-democracy as a compromise between right reaction and revolution and rejecting support for the Congress Party as agisnt the BJP.

The Second Congress was held in 1999, and the third in January 2005. At the latter the Constitution of the Communist Ghadar Party of India was adopted.

[Twenty fifth birth anniversary of the Communist Ghadar Party of India]

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