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Art. III - The flag of the party shall be a red flag of which the
length shall be one-and-a-half times its width. At the centre of the
flag there shall be a crossed hammer and sickle in white.
Source: http://www.cpofindia.org/cp2.htm
Joe McMillan, 18 August 2003
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Roman Kogovsek, 8 July 2005From the party's constitution (http://www.cpim.org/documents/constitution.htm):
ARTICLE IIINitesh Dave, 19 Feb 2000
FLAG
The flag of the Party shall be a red flag of which the length shall be one-and-a-half times its width. At the centre of the flag there shall be a crossed hammer and sickle in white.
The Indian Communist Party - Marxist has a seven pointed white star in the canton and the hammer and sickle is a bit different. In the logo, the hammer and sickle is golden bordered white with a black shadow over a red background, and the star (five-pointed is touching the upper part of the hammer. But sometimes the star in the flag is missing or is fivepointed. The flag posted seems to be the flag of the Indian Communist Party (pro-Soviet) or at least the
design is very close.
Jaume Ollé, 27 Feb 2000
I noticed this report I sent in 2000 seemed to be out of line. The flag with seven pointed star was published in Flaggenmitteilung. I also saw a photo with a five pointed star and without star. I wrote to the party and I received an answer several months ago. A correction was issued in Flag Report 25:
"The executive board of the Communist Party of Marxist India, having received a copy of FR #21, makes it known that the organization's official flag does not contain the star in the canton as shown in the image of FR #21, having just the white hammer-and-sickle in the centre. The star appeared in a photo of the flag taken in a demonstration, a flag that obviously was not of the official model".
This can be because several communist parties have very similar flags and
people use an electoral emblem to differentiate themselves, or due to a poor
identification, or even because of regional variants. Later I collected more
photos that confirm the red flag with hammer and sickle, without star.
Jaume Ollé, 18 August 2003
Art. 2 - The flag of the Party is the red flag of rectangular size,
the ratio of length and breadth being 3:2, with hammer and sickle in
white inscribed in it in the middle.
Source: http://cpiml.org/pgs/partyconst/const.htm
Joe McMillan, 18 August 2003