Lal Nishan Party (Red Flag Party), communist political party in the Indian state of Maharashtra. LNP was formed as a splintergroup of Communist Party of India in 1942, when CPI didn't support the Quit India Movement.
LNP main work is trade union activism. The trade union of the party is called Sarva Shramik Sangh.
The party publication is called Nave Parva. Earlier SSS publishes a Marathi daily newspaper from Pune called Shramik Vichar.
During the 1980s LNP developed a close cooperation with Kamgar Aghadi.
In 1988 a split occurred when a hardline section, critical of the Perestroika, broke away and formed Lal Nishan Party (Leninvadi).
Lal Nishan Party participates in the Confederation of Indian Communists and Democratic Socialists.
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