KOLKATA: Communist Organization of India (Marxist - Leninist) leader Kanu Sanyal, a founder of the Naxalite movement, has decided to form a new Communist party, merging some of the Naxalite groups throughout the country.
As a first step, the COI (M-L) and the CPI (M-L) Unity Initiative had merged into an organization called the CPI (M-L) and thereafter the CPI (M-L) and the CPI (M-L) Red Flag had formed an All India Co-ordination Committee, he said.
Sanyal was hopeful that he would bring under the fold of the co-ordination committee the majority of about two dozen Marxist Leninist groups which followed the "mass line".
He was critical of some other Naxalite groups like the Peoples War and the Maoist Communist Centre, branding them as "sectarian".
"Terrorist activities and annihilation practised by the original CPI (M-L) has been proved to be wrong," he said.
"The CPI(M-L) that we will form will be entirely a new party, though the name will be the same," he said.
It would follow the path of "mass struggles" and even take part in "legal means" like elections, but would also take recourse to extra-parliamentary measures when necessary.
Denying that the PW and the MCC had managed to spread influence in large areas of Bihar, Orissa and Andhra Pradesh, Sanyal said these groups did not enjoy the support of the people and had not undertaken programmes like land reforms and land redistribution.
Distancing his organization from mainline Left parties like the CPM and the CPI, Sanyal said these now represented the interests of the "ruling class". Vested interests, and even criminals, had now become members of the CPM in many places, he said.
