AIC also has a mass organisation India Workers Association in England affiliated to it.

“In 1990, the AIC collaborated with the Shaheed Udham Singh Welfare Trust to campaign for the public release of Udham Singh’s last words. Udham Singh was executed in 1940 for assassinating Michael O’Dwyer who ordered the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. We tasted success in 1996,” Janesh said.

He also said that former Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn, who was expelled from the party for his extreme positions, is a regular guest of the AIC’s programmes.

Janesh also told this paper that his name in the official records in Kerala is Janesh C.

“I am not a person who likes caste identity. However, in the passport, the officials expanded the initials too. So my father’s name Chandrasekharan Nair was included. Here people often call you by the last name,” he rued.

For many CPM state and national leaders, visiting England has become a ‘dialectical pilgrimage’ as they visit the tomb of Karl Marx and the British library frequented by Marx and Vladimir Lenin.

Former general secretary Sitaram Yechuri, PB members Pinarayi Vijayan, MA Baby and MV Govindan are among the CPM leaders who have visited England.

“Earlier there were very few Malayali party members,” said Janesh.

“However, within a few years, this scenario changed, and people from Kerala have now become a majority. The AIC directly reports to the CPM central committee. The conference was inaugurated by politburo member Ashok Dhawale,” he said.

Like the CPM conferences held in Kerala, the conference in London too started with the hoisting of the red flag, and the conference leaders then visited Marx’s tomb to pay homage afterwards. The conference unanimously elected a 19-member executive committee including two women.

The AIC was officially formed in 1967, soon after the split in the Communist party of India, under the guidance of the former party supremo Harkishan Singh Surjit.