Sanjay Singhvi (3rd from left) at the demonstration on the occasion of the founding of the CPI (ML) Massline

Dear comrades of the CPI(ML) Massline, dear Jane, dear relatives and friends of Sanjay,

It is with great sorrow that we learned today that comrade Sanjay Singhvi passed away on April 23, 2025 at 22:00.

On behalf of the entire ICC of the ICOR, I express my sincere and deepest condolences to his wife Jane, his family, the comrades of his party CPI(ML) Massline and his trade union colleagues.

The death of Sanjay is a great loss for all revolutionaries in India, for the international communist movement, for the international labor movement and anti-fascist movement.

Since its foundation in 2010, Comrade Sanjay has been a member of the ICC of the ICOR as Deputy Main Coordinator, from which he resigned in 2022 after the separation from the CPI ML Red Star. In 2024, now as a member of the CPI (ML) Massline, he was re-elected to the ICC as Continental Coordinator Asia. He played a significant positive role in the 5th World Conference of ICOR and the seminar "Lenin's Teachings are Alive" in summer 2025. Sanjay enjoyed the deep trust of the ICOR member organizations, he was a man of the first hour and a driving force in the preparation of the founding of ICOR since 2008.

In 2021, Sanjay led the building of the United Front with great skill, patience and trust in the masses and was not deterred by the headwinds against her anti-fascist and anti-imperialist orientation.

In 2022, when we had to say goodbye to Sanjay for a short time from the ICC, I said in a greeting to him:

"For many, many years you were a supporting and active force in the building of the ICOR, in its practical work, positioning and impact in the international revolutionary movement.

Coming from a communist family, your whole life was characterized by the fight for our socialist future. Already in your student days in the 70's you were active among the students. You experienced many conflicts and divisions in the Indian Marxist-Leninist movement, but never lost the conviction that the working class and its allies would ultimately win. Later, as a lawyer, you also consistently concentrated on supporting trade unions. You are deeply rooted in the TUCI and in recent years you have worked successfully to unite the various directional trade unions into a single trade union. In the conviction that this is also where the strength of the working class comes from.

We experienced a lot together, first with Stefan Engel, later with me and with the comrades of the ICC, prepared four ICOR world conferences, numerous ICC meetings, wrote hundreds of letters. We also had many, many disputes, which were sometimes quite explosive. But in the end, unity and friendship always prevailed. From Hyderabad to Bangalore, to Süleymania, to South Africa, France, Germany and the Middle East, we worked together for the ICOR. These were deep and vivid experiences and you taught us a lot about Indian history and culture and the rich experiences of its peoples. Anthropology in particular was your thirst for knowledge. You are a talented linguist and scientifically very interested and well-read.

Today's turmoil in all parts of the world, the complicated inter-imperialist contradictions have also brought the international revolutionary and Marxist-Leninist movement into intense conflict. A new formation and reorientation is necessary and is taking place, not in a straight line, but with great intensity."

Comrade Sanjay had to experience many baseless slanders from the leadership of his former party, which was a heavy blow for him. But he did not give up and actively participated in building the new and vibrant party CPI (ML) Massline, which has now become an active and enriching member of ICOR.

Comrade Sanjay's death has made the world revolutionary movement poorer! But he will remain unforgotten. We would have had many more plans together. If we now work with all our strength to strengthen the continental coordinations of the ICOR and to stabilize their practical cooperation, if we, following the decisions of the 5th World Conference, exchange experiences about the work among the working class, above all in the large industrial enterprises and the trade unions, if we advance the building of the first regional coordination Middle East, this will also be done in Sanjay's spirit and in the work for his great goals of a free, democratic socialist world community.

Red Salute to Comrade Sanjay Singhvi