M. Rasheed, a long-time partisan of Trotskyist politics in India, died on January 6, 2017 at the age of 92. He was one of the veterans of the “first generation” of Indian Trotskyists. The son of a prominent freedom fighter in what was then the Malabar district of British India (now Kerala State), (...)
CPI(ML) dips its flag in respectful homage to Fidel Castro Ruz, the iconic leader of the Cuban revolution and towering figure who inspired anti-imperialist fighters the world over.
Fidel Castro led the successful Cuban revolution that overthrew the repressive Batista regime, and defended the (...)
From the late 1980s, the bureaucracy dominated states posing as socialist entered their terminal crisis. Tien an Men Square saw workers and students being murdered in China. Angry popular revolts brought down the regimes in East Europe. The USSR collapsed. And it was therefore being said (...)
Contribution presented at the forum: “Exit Capitalism – Build The Left”. Socialism International 2016. 25-27 November 2016. KL Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Let me begin by thanking you for this opportunity to speak and express my views at this important session. I speak (...)
Radical Socialist condemns the mass killing of at least 24 Maoists or alleged Maoists, in what the police are calling an encounter, in the Odisha side of the Andhra – Odisha border area. From the reports issued by the police, it is evident that they had surrounded a meeting of the Maoists, at (...)
Defend the JNU students. Defend academic freedom. Build left, working class and toilers’ unity to resist fascism and aggressive nationalism
As an all India centre of excellence, the Jawaharlal Nehru University has consistently attracted bright students from all over India. This all India (...)
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) held an organisational plenum for the first time since 1978, in Kolkata. The plenum, a platform to thrash out a reorientation of organisational strategy, was held at a time when the CPI(M) — and the rest of the mainstream Left — is at its weakest (...)
New Delhi, December 7 : Dr Brahma Dutt Sharma (known to many of us as Dr Sahab), left for passed away on December 6th in Gwalior. He was not keeping well for sometime and was being looked after by his son and daughter-in-law. Narmada Bachao Andolan and NAPM pay its heartfelt condolences to the (...)
Radical Socialist has consistently opposed death penalty as a form of punishment. This stems from a number of considerations. In the first place, long before the emergence of modern socialism, during the Enlightenment, it was pointed out, by Cesare Beccaria above all, that if the aim of (...)
Radical Socialist condemns the unlawful detention of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) students and those in solidarity, assembled outside Shastri Bhavan in New Delhi on 3 July. We extend solidarity to the struggle of FTII students against the Modi government’s attempt at interfering (...)
Activist, humanist, pacifist, journalist, columnist, uncompromising secularist, Praful Bidwai (1949-2015) was passionate about his quest for justice and equality.
Praful Bidwai was born in the town of Dewas in Madhya Pradesh. His parents, who had hailed from Amravati in the Vidharba region of (...)
It was sometime in 1998, when I met Praful in person for the first time at the Dadar residence of our friends Sandhya Gokhale and Mihir Desai. He was in town - had already shifted from the then Bombay to Delhi quite some time back, and came to attend a discussion meet to deliberate the (...)
Friends, there was no video livestreaming or any of that for yesterday’s funeral. This is by no means a comprehensive account, and there may be much that has been inadvertently left out. It is just a brief recalling of that event using words in the old fashioned way, even as the memories of it (...)
First read: Praful Bidwai’s final book examines whether the Left can rise again in India. Excerpted from The Phoenix Moment: Challenges Confronting the Indian Left, Praful Bidwai. To be published by HarperCollins India in October 2015.
‘A pertinent question is why left-wing politics has not (...)
Praful Bidwai is no more. He died in Amsterdam on Tuesday evening due to a cardiac arrest,
With his death we have lost the ‘best left-wing journalist’ in this part of South Asia whose articles appeared in many newspapers and magazines in the subcontinent and in the middle east and was frequently (...)
Praful Bidwai passed away in Amsterdam on June 23. He was in the Dutch capital for the annual Transnational Institute Fellows’ Meeting. Bidwai was an outstanding journalist who worked with some of the most reputed papers of his time, but also established a reputation for himself as an (...)
It is difficult to accept that Praful is no more. Two days back he passed away in Amsterdam, The Netherland. Now, who will spontaneously respond to right wing onslaught on the masses in these difficult times, both globally and within India?
I got to know Praful in 1974 in Mumbai in a meeting (...)
Praful Bidwai. Photo: Heinrich Boll Stiftug
New Delhi: The well-known journalist and commentator Praful Bidwai – whose syndicated columns on politics, foreign policy, the environment and political economy provided a critical, left-wing perspective on national and international developments for (...)
The brilliant, courageous and accomplished Indian journalist, scholar and activist Praful Bidwai died unexpectedly in Amsterdam on June 23rd – a tragic loss for all those he inspired and informed.
Praful Bidwai, an erudite and acclaimed Indian journalist and commentator, died unexpectedly in (...)
The 21st party congress of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), or CPM, which concludes on Sunday in Visakhapatnam (also known as Vizag) in Andhra Pradesh, is taking place at a time when the CPM, and the Leftist movement as a whole, is faced with the question of political survival in the (...)
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