Logos of India

COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA (MARXIST) The CPI(M) was formed at the Seventh Congress of the Communist Party of India held in Calcutta from October 31 to November 7, 1964. The CPI(M) was born in the struggle against revisionism and sectarianism in the communist movement at the international and national level, in order to defend the scientific and revolutionary tenets of Marxism-Leninism and its appropriate application in the concrete Indian conditions. The CPI(M) has grown steadily since its formation in 1964. Its election symbol is hammer, sickle and star representing agriculture, industry and dawn. This is taken from the erstwhile Soviet Communist Party. These motifs aptly symbolise the people it represents.