Press Release
13th Party Congress of CPI (ML) Red Star Successfully Completed!
Rise up to fulfill the Immediate Task of Overthrowing RSS Fascism!
The 5-day Party Congress of CPI (ML) Red Star held in the historic city of Raichur from 16 to 20 September 2026 elected a 33-member Central Committee and a 13- member Polit Bureau. The Congress also elected a 3-member Central Control Commission. Around 250 Delegates from 14 States and Overseas Committee together with Observers and Fraternal delegates from various Parties participated in the Congress.
The 13th Congress of the Party is being held at a critical juncture when US- led imperialism is having its biggest offensive against world people through naked aggression and far-right corporatism. In continuation of the genocide of the Palestinians, the latest manifestation of this horrific crime is the ongoing US-Zionist aggression on Iran. Meanwhile, while there is a surge in fascism across the world, people’s resistance against it is also rising up.
India, the most populous country today, is under the stranglehold of RSS, world’s largest and longest-running fascist organization. While the country’s resources and people’s livelihood are sold out to Adani- Ambani like corporate billionares, the entire administration including police and even military, judiciary, education, culture, etc., are under the firm grip of fascism. Muslims are targeted as the biggest enemy, and are systematically disenfranchised and denied citizenship. And using Manusmriti as its ideological roots, the Dalits and Women are subjected to intensifying oppression, as the RSS is in its maddening pace towards a Brahmanical Hindu Rashtra.
In this context, as laid down in the Program and other basic documents adopted by the Congress and as discussed in the Seminars on Imperialism, Fascism and Caste Annihilation, held as part of the Congress, the Party has resolved to intensively take up the struggle against RSS Fascism and the dominance of imperialist-corporate capital over the country in its manifold ways.
In the specific context of India, where both the ideological and material basis of fascism is the most inhuman caste system, the 13th Party Congress of CPI (ML) Red Star has appealed to the working class and all oppressed peoples to join with all progressive-democratic forces to take up the anti-fascist movement appropriately linking the struggle for People’s livelihood with the uncompromising struggle struggle for the annihilation of Caste system. This is to be taken up self-critically taking lessons from the erstwhile mistakes on the part of Indian Communist Movement in its failure to understand the Caste question in the proper perspective.
The Party Congress unanimously adopted altogether 19 Resolutions concerning the International and Indian issues pertaining to the US-Zionist genocide on Palestinians, Aggression on Iran, Modi Govt’s tax on UPI payments at the diktats of Trump regime, against SIR and ongoing anti-Muslim moves, continued detention of Omar Khalid in jail without trial or bail, against Manuvadi-corporate Education policies, condemning the reluctance on the part of Modi regime to have a proper Caste Census, against Delimitation and ongoing anti-Federal moves towards a pan-Indian, unitary Hindurashtra, demanding abolition of the post of Governor, and so on.
The 5- day Party Congress, among other things, also put on record its cordial thanks and warmest greetings to all the Progressive-Democratic People of Raichur for their whole-hearted cooperation and for solidly standing with the Party for making the 13th Party Congress a great success!
P J James (General Secretary)
R Manasayya (Polit Bureau Member)
M Gangadhar (Karnataka State Secretary)
CPI (ML) Red Star)
Raichur, Karnataka
21.09.2026
