Wary of the risk of the unity of AFPFL, the party leadership initiated a disciplinary process against Thakin Soe.

Thakin Than Tun and Thein Pe did commit self-criticism (and temporarily resigned from their posts), but did not agree to Soe's demand to make him the party leader.

[5] Whilst the White Flag Communist Party employed a popular front line of working within the framework of the Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League, the Red Flag Communist Party denounced co-operation with non-communist forces.

[7] The party began building up Red Flag Cultivators Unions across Burma, a movement which called on peasants to stop paying rents and taxes.

[3] The party initiated an armed campaign against the British colonial rule and the 'rightwing' elements of the AFPFL in July 1946.

In April 1947, the Communist Party (Burma) called for a boycott of the elections to the Constituent Assembly.

[14] In the Arakan State, the Communist Party (Burma) made an alliance with Rakhine separatist rebels under the leadership of nationalist monk U Seinda.

They were led by Kyaw Zan Rhee, a prominent Arakanese political leader, and Bo Maung Han.

[16][17] Following the 1956 parliamentary elections the party, as well as other rebel groups, began to suffer from defections from its armed wing.

The strong performance of the National United Front had convinced many leftwing sympathizers that armed rebellion was not the sole path of political struggles.

[21] In November 1970, army forces stormed Thakin Soe's hideout and the last stronghold of the party in the northern fringes of the Arakan Yoma mountain range.