Internationalist solidarity with CPI(M)

Just a few weeks after the the elections in the Indian state of Kerala, special police units raided the home of the former Kerala Chief Minister and Politburo member Pinarayi Vijayan. On 27 May 2026, Delhi Police detained M.A. Baby, General Secretary of the CPI(M), along with other leaders of the party and more than a hundred members who publicly protested in support of comrade Vijayan outside the Enforcement Directorate headquarters in Delhi. Communist Parties around the world fiercely condemned these subsequent attacks against the CPI(M).

The Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism condemned the attacks against CPI(M) and interpreted the repression against communists in India as not accidental, but “stemming from the defense of capital’s interests by the Indian bourgeois state.”

The Central Committee of the Party of Labour of Austria underlined how the federal government of the Hindu-nationalist BJP is acting with the Congress Party—which forms the new government in Kerala—in exploiting the electoral defeat of the Left Democratic Front in order to enforce its anti-popular policies.

The Communist Party of Britain reminded that it was India’s Communists who launched the independence struggle to free India from British imperialism one hundred years ago paying a heavy price of repression. The party expressed its total solidarity with India’s communists in their current struggle “to resist the repressive and undemocratic attacks by politicised agencies of the Indian state on freedom of association, freedom of expression and on the political rights of communists to organise.” 

The International Relations Section of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece expressed its militant solidarity with the CPI(M) and denounced the “deliberate attempt by India’s reactionary bourgeois government to suppress the struggle of the communists and impose a regime of repression in order to implement unhindered the anti-popular policies that serve the interests of capitalist business groups.”

The Tudeh Party of Iran, “itself a victim of repressive policies of a theocratic regime”, unequivocally condemned the attacks against the CPI(M) and emphasised that no amount of intimidation, violence, or repression can silence parties rooted in the struggles and aspirations of the working people, despite the authoritarian and anti-people character of the policies pursued by the ruling reactionary forces in India.

Gerry Grainger, International Secretary of the Workers Party of Ireland, unreservedly condemned the raids against the CPI(M) and addressed his comrades in India as follows: “Please be assured of the active solidarity of your comrades in the Workers Party of Ireland which has also raised this issue with the Indian state representatives in Ireland.”

The International Commission of the New Communist Party of the Netherlands highlighted “the context of a broader repressive campaign against India’s communist forces by the right-wing and reactionary government led by the BJP” as well as “the authoritarian tendency of a regime that combines reactionary politics, anti-communism, and the defence of monopoly interests.”

The International Department of the Communist Party of Pakistan interpreted the attack not as law enforcement but as “utter political repression” under the rule of the BJP with the clear intention to “silence those who stand with workers and the oppressed masses.”

The Central Committee of the Russian Communist Workers' Party (RCWP) explained how the Indian bourgeoisie, like the Russian, Chinese and Iranian bourgeoisie, plays a double role, “coming into conflict with the global imperialist center (the United States and NATO), defending its geopolitical and economic interests” whereas waging a fierce attack on the rights of workers and their vanguard, the Communist Parties within its own countries.

The International Department of the Communist Party of Sri Lanka stated the pro-people alternative shown by successive Left Democratic Front governments in Kerala as the reason for the raids by the forces of reaction against the CPI(M).

The Communist Party of Turkey strongly condemned the attack “as yet another example of the growing repression directed against the working-class movement” and affirmed its unwavering solidarity with the CPI(M).