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The red gobbo and co are obviously based on communism.

So does that mean all grots are communists?

Or am I just reading too much into things?

Do Grots demand worker's control of the means of production?
No? Than they are not communist. You are reading too much in this.
The grot rebels were obviously inspired by common socialist symbolism, but that does not mean they are communits, and even less that all grots are communist.

The Red Gobbo and his grots are explicitly stated to be abnormal for grots. Most grots don't rebel like that, let alone competently.

Obviously. The classes on the bottom rung of society are vastly more likely to be Communist because they stand the most to gain from the ideas involved.

Well they fit Marx's definition of the Proletariat well (that is being given just enough to survive and work by their far more powerful masters). But then again the whole of ork society reminds me of a factory system with the boss and meks being in charge of the work crews so.

Aren't communists meant to be (in theory) more inclusive than what these guys are doing? The Red Gobbos seem like they're just concerned about Grots.

you are meaning these Grots? http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Gretchin_Revolutionary_Committee

I can vaguely remember catching a glance at one of them once. Had I been an Ork-playa I would have been so sold out on them.