KRISHNA PILLAI was born in 1906 in a lower middle class Nair family of Vaikom in the princely state of Travancore (now south Kerala) and schooled at the great university of life because of poverty and the early death of his parents.
THE birth centenary of P Krishna Pillai on August 19, 2006 is an important landmark for the Communist movement in Kerala and the country. In the case of sakhavu (comrade), we are observing the birth centenary of a leader who was one of the founders of the Party and a pioneer of the working class movement in Kerala.
Here was a proletarian leader with enormous talents who was cut off in the prime of his life. His death from a snakebite, while being underground, at the age of 42, made his loss all the more unbearable and deeply affected the fledgling movement.Comrade Krishna Pillai traversed the path of all pioneering communists in Kerala.

If EMS became the theoretician and guide and AKG the man of the masses, Krishna Pillai was the organiser of the Party.

E.M.S

Comrade E.M.S. Namboodiripad was one of the foremost leaders of the Communist movement in India and one of the founding leaders of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).
E.M.S. was a brilliant Marxist theoretician. He made outstanding contributions to the application of Marxism-Leninism to Indian society and in working out the strategy and tactics of the Indian revolution.
In 1957, after the state of Kerala was formed in the first elections in 1957, the Communist Party won a majority and E.M.S. Namboodiripad became Chief Minister of the first elected Communist ministry in India. It was the EMS ministry which initiated the path breaking land reform legislation and other democratic measures, till the ministry was dismissed undemocratically in 1959. E.M.S. Namboodiripad became Chief Minister of Kerala again in 1967 heading a United Front ministry till 1969.
E.M.S. Namboodiripad was elected the General Secretary of Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in 1977 and he led the Party in this capacity till the 14th Congress in 1992 when he stepped down due to ill-health. His leadership in rallying all the Left, democratic and secular forces was invaluable.
He died on March 19, 1998 at the age of 89.

A.K.G

Ayillyath Kuttiari Gopalan Nambiar (Malayalam: ആയില്യത്ത് കുറ്റ്യാറി ഗോപാലന്‍ നമ്പ്യാര്‍), 1 October 1904 to March 22, 1977, popularly known as A. K. Gopalan or AKG.
In 1927 he joined the Indian National Congress and began playing an active role in the Khadi Movement and the upliftment of Harijans. He was arrested for participating in the salt satyagraha in 1930.
While in prison he got acquainted with communism and became a member of the Congress Socialist Party and later the Communist Party of India when it finally took shape in Kerala in 1939. He led the hunger march from Malabar region to Madras in 1937 and the Malabar Jatha in support of the movement for responsible government in Travancore.
AKG was married to Susheela Gopalan,who was a prominent Marxist and trade union activist. His daughter, Laila, is married to P. Karunakaran, the Member of Parliament for the Kasargode constituency.

AKG played an important role in the formation of Indian Coffee House, a worker cooperative initiative by organising the thrown out employees of Coffee Houses of Coffee Board to establish ICHs in late 1950s. His contribution is documented in Coffee Housinte Katha, a Malayalam alternative history book by Nadakkal parameswaran pillai the founder of ICHs in Kerala with the Communist Leader of Thrissur Advocate T. K. Krishnan.

E.K. Nayanar
Erambala Krishnan Nayanar (December 9, 1919 - May 19, 2004) was an Indian politician leader of the Communist Party in Kerala and the Chief Minister. He held the post three times 1980-81, 1897-91 and 1996-2001. He holds the distinction of serving in the post for the longest period of time - 11 years.

Nayanar was born in Kalyassery in Kannur district of Kerala. He joined the Communist Party in 1939. He participated in the Kayyoor-Morazha peasant uprisings and was forced to go underground to evade arrest. When the Communist Part of India (CPI) split in 1964, Nayanar joined sides with the CPI-M (Communist Part of India - Marxist).

In 1967 he was elected to Lok Sabha from Palghat (now Palakkad). He was elected to Kerala Assembly six times. Among the legislative constituencies he won from were Irikkur, Malampuzha, Trikaripur and Thalassery.

He became the Chief Minister of Kerala for the first time on January 25, 1980. His term ended in 1981. He served a four-year term starting from 1986 and a full five-year term in 1996.

Nayanar was also an editor of Desabhimani Daily.

Nayanar died in New Delhi following a heart attack

INDIAN FLAG

The Indian national flag was designed in 1916 by Pingali Venkayya from Machilipatnam. The tricolour flag designed by him, with a charkha in the centre was adopted by the Congress committee in 1931 at Karachi.

On July 22, 1947, during an ad hoc meeting of the Constituent Assembly, it was approved as the National Flag of India with suitable modifications, wherein the Ashok Chakra was adopted in place of the charkha.

GREAT INDIAN, GREAT COMMUNIST, GREAT MARXIST - HE NEVER DIES...

The CPI(M) was formed at the Seventh Congress of the Communist Party of India held in Calcutta from October 31 to November 7, 1964. The CPI(M) was born in the struggle against revisionism and sectarianism in the communist movement at the international and national level, in order to defend the scientific and revolutionary tenets of Marxism-Leninism and its appropriate application in the concrete Indian conditions. The CPI(M) combines the fine heritage of the anti-imperialist struggle and the revolutionary legacy of the undivided Communist Party which was founded in 1920. Over the years, the Party has emerged as the foremost Left force in the country. The Communist manifesto published in 1848.