Central Reorganisation Committee, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)
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Central Reorganization Committee, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist), a communist group in India 1979-1991. The Secretary of the All-India Leading Committee of the CRC, CPI(ML) was K. Venu. The main organ of CRC, CPI(ML) was called Mass Line. CRC, CPI(ML) also published Liberation and Comrade.
CRC, CPI(ML) emerged out of the pro-Charu Majumdar tendency of the Naxalite movement. It had its main roots in the Kerala State Committee of the CPI(ML). But the KSC differed from the original CPI(ML) by advocating a mass line.
In 1982 the First All India Conference of CRC, CPI(ML) was held. The second conference was held in 1987.
In 1984 CRC, CPI(ML) was one of the three founders of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (the others being Revolutionary Communist Party (USA) and Partido Comunista Revolucionario (Chile)).
In 1987 CRC, CPI(ML) suffered a heavy setback when a major portion of the organization broke away and formed Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Flag.
In October 1991 CRC, CPI(ML) was dissolved. K. Venu renounced Maoism and declared an All India communist party as an impossibility. Groups dissatisfied with the dissolution formed the Maharashtra Communist Party and Kerala Communist Party. MCP and KCP later merged to form MUC, CPI(ML). MUC, CPI(ML) later merged with Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Naxalbari.
K. Venu later joined the Janathipathiya Samrakshana Samithy. He contested the 1996 Kerala assembly elections from Kondugallur. Venu came second with 37,234 votes.
