Below we publish the speech given by D Raja, general secretary, CPI, on April 6, at the inaugural session of the 23rd Congress of the CPI(M) held in KannurDEAR Comrades and Friends,On behalf of the Communist Party of India, I extend revolutionary greetings to the 23rd Congress of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). I express my sincere thanks for inviting me to the inaugural session.The 23rd Congress of the CPI(M) is taking place in Kerala, which made history for democratically electing a communist government six decades back in 1957.

Below we publish the welcome speech delivered by the chairman of the organising committee of the Party Congress, Pinarayi  Vijayan on April 6, 2022 at KannurTODAY, the 23rd Party Congress of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) is opening here, at Kannur. As many of you are aware, Kannur has a valiant history of a series of historic struggles by peasants and working class against exploitative class relations that were sought to be protected by the imperial regime in the last century. Kannur is hosting the Party Congress for the first time.

“THIS is a Congress of Unity, Resolve and Determination”, said the newly elected general secretary of the CPI(M), Sitaram Yechury, in its 23rd Congress at Kannur. Yechury said this while concluding the deliberations of the five-day Party Congress in Kannur. The Congress was held from April 6-10, 2022.

 Yechury also narrated the historic role that this region(Kannur) played in the formation of the Communist Party in Kerala. He informed the heroic role of the martyrs of the Malabar region during the freedom movement.

PLACING THE RESOLUTION

Below we publish the inaugural speech delivered by the CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury on April 6, at KannurDEAR comrades and friends,We are gratified at the presence of eminent public figures, distinguished veteran leaders of the Communist movement and leaders of various contingents of people’s struggles.I wish to thank D Raja, general secretary of the CPI, for physically being present here.

APRIL 10, at 2 in the afternoon the delegates assembled outside the venue of the Party Congress, E K Nayanar Academy, to participate in a march to the venue of the public meeting in Kannur.People’s Congress would be the acronym for this Party Congress. Unprecedented in many ways, the core element of this Congress was its people. Not just the delegates who attended it, but the people who surrounded it. Surrounded, yes, there were thousands of homes in the Kannur town and the district that became part and parcel of this Congress.