The CPIM works for the establishment of a socialist society in India, free from class exploitation and social oppression. The Party has adopted the principles of Marxism-Leninism as the guide to action to attain the objective of socialism and to advance towards the ultimate goal of communism. The CPIM places its revolutionary programme before the people of India to establish people’s democracy. A
people’s democratic revolution will open the way for the advance to socialism and an exploitation free society. Such a revolution to emancipate the Indian people has to be led by the working class in alliance with the peasantry. In order to achieve this goal, the Communist Party as the vanguard of the working class has to lead militant struggles against imperialism, monopoly capitalism and landlordism. By concretely applying the principles of Marxism-Leninism to the conditions prevailing in our country, the Party has to conduct prolonged struggles on all fronts – political, ideological, economic, social and cultural – till victory is attained. The Party is at the forefront of the fight against communalism in the country, in defence of the minorities who are being hounded by the Sangh Parivar. The Party stands for women's liberation, democratic decentralisation and the protection of the environment. The Party tries to implement alternative policies wherever it leads state government and local governments, within the constraints of the capitalist system prevailing in the country. Kerala created history by electing the Communist Party to power in 1957. The new direction given by that government laid the foundation for the renowned 'Kerala Model'. The government led by EMS Namboodiripad showed the way in developing the understanding on how the Communist Party should work in the parliamentary system in a capitalist country, clarifying and defining the role of the Party which participates in government where it has popular mandate while continuing to keep the Party's major focus on developing mass movements and struggles of the working people.
