100 Years of CPI: The Communist Party of India (CPI) considers December 26, 1925 as its foundation date. The Communist movement in India was deeply inspired by the Russian revolution and Vladimir Lenin, its main leader. Story continues below this adAll these three strands eventually flowed, in one way or the other, into the Communist movement in India. The émigré Communist party of India resolved to liberate India from British imperialism and set up conditions for socialism. After Independence, the energies of the Communist movement were bifurcated, with one strand going into an underground, violent insurrectionary direction, and the mainstream of the Communist movement opting for a parliamentary democratic route to capture state power.

Source: Indian Express December 26, 2025 06:26 UTC