The Communist Party of Britain condemns the politically motivated raids by government agencies on the Thiruvananthapuram residence of comrade Pinarayi Vijayan former Chief Minister of Kerala (until May 2026), and current leader of the Opposition.
British Communists further condemn the arrests of several leaders of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) who protested publicly in support of comrade Vijayan outside the Delhi headquarters of the Enforcement Directorate.
The use of lawfare and police repression by right wing, conservative governments as weapons against progressive popular forces has become an international phenomenon from the Czech Republic, to Jordan, to Kenya, and now India, the world’s largest democracy.
The Communist Party of Britain expresses our total solidarity with India’s communists and with our sister party, CPI(M) in its 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.
India’s Communists launched the independence struggle to free India from British imperialism one hundred years ago paying a heavy price of repression. Today CPI(M) stands alongside India’s workers and farmers in their fight against repressive anti-working class policies of the Modi government.
The struggle to reclaim and expand political space for the working class will be protracted, but Indian Communists’ line of march remains entirely unbroken.
Communist Party of Britain,
General Secretary,
Alex Gordon
International Secretary,
Kevan Nelson
28 May 2026,