Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Flag (Unnichekkan)

The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Flag (Malayalam: സി.പി.ഐ (എം.എല്‍) റെഡ്‌ ഫ്‌ളാഗ്‌) is a Marxist-Leninist political party in India. The party is one of the most moderate factions of the wider Naxalite movement.

The main leader of the party is P.C. Unnichekkan, the Kerala State Committee secretary of the party. Yuvajana Vedi is the youth wing of the party.

The party emerged from a split in the erstwhile Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Flag (led by K.N. Ramachandran) in 2003. The Unnichekkan group opposed the merger of CPI(ML) Red Flag with Kanu Sanyal's Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist). Another issue of disagreement was the question of participation in the World Social Forum, which the Unnichekkan group opposed. The Unnichekkan group organised a national conference of their own at the Nayanthahalli Nityananda Dhana Mandiram in Bangalore on 20–21 December 2003, electing a party Central Committee consisting of M.S. Jayakumar (All India Secretary), Ayyappa Hugar (Karnataka), K. Chandrasekhar (maharashtra), L. Govindaswami (Tamil Nadu), M.M. Somasekharan (Kerala), P.C. Unnichekkan (Kerala) and P.J. Baby (Kerala).

The party had two candidates in the 2004 parliamentary election, both contesting as independents. T.B. Mini, a member of the Kerala State Committee of the party, contested the Ernakulam Lok Sabha seat, getting 7,482 votes (1.6% of the valid votes in that constituency). K.T. Kunhikannan, a Kerala State Secretariat member of the party, contested the Vatakara seat, getting 10,418 votes (0.9%).

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