TO take up the challenge of defending Marxism-Leninism in the face of the continuing deep crisis of socialism and renewed bourgeois offensive, the party in its July 1990 Special Conference in Delhi has decided to resume open functioning after nearly twenty years. Accordingly, its central and state organs have started appearing openly; party banners are displayed in open rallies and demonstrations; seminars are being organised in defence of Marxism and a widespread campaign has been launched to impart primary Marxist education to more and more people and recruit large number of elements emerging out of mass struggle into the party.

The party has also launched its all-India trade union wing named the All India Central Council of Trade Unions (AICCTU) and is planning to coordinate the activities of its state level peasant associations through a national body. On the student front. national-level organisation has already been initiated in the form of All India Students' Association (AISA) while on women and cultural fronts, too, building national-level organisations is on the agenda of the coming years.

The party has also built up a propaganda network through its own organs, through IPF organs and through popular democratic periodicals like the Patna-based Hindi weekly Samkaleen Janmat. In 1986, it had brought out a Report from the Flaming Fields of Bihar – an analytical review of the developing revolutionary peasant movement of Bihar in the light of the changing agrarian and social conditions in the state. The book was widely acclaimed in revolutionary and academic circles in India and abroad. Currently, the party is engaged in making an in-depth study of the history of Indian communist movement, which it proposes to publish in five volumes.

The party has developed a mass political organisation called the Autonomous State Demand Committee in the national minority region of Karbi Anglong in Assam and guides all its important activities including the running of the autonomous district administration. While we pay particular attention to the special problems of national minorities and appreciate the genuine grievances of various nationalities, dalits and backward castes, and religious minorities, we are strongly opposed to the marginalisation of the movement and strive for the unity of the overwhelming majority of the Indian people and of India as a country.

The party continues to pay its highest attention to building revolutionary peasant struggles and organising armed resistance against the attacks of private armies of the landlords and kulaks as well as the state. Constantly raising the level of revolutionary consciousness, mobilisation and militancy of the masses at the grassroots is the motto of our party and it is the only guarantee against all kinds of opportunist, social-democratic and bureaucratic deviations.