In Hyderabad, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) recently concluded our 22nd Party Congress. We – the CPI (M) – are a democratic and centralist party. This means that we – the one million members of the CPI (M) – have robust debates inside the party about our understanding of the current reality and we develop our strategies and tactics based on that understanding. Different views exist within any party, indeed within any group of a million people. These differences are important and (...)
Prof Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd, now Chairman of T-MASS, or ‘Telangana Mass and Social Organizations,’ appears to have put behind him the recent spike in threats to his life, and is very busy with travel and various meetings. I learn from him of a celebration organised here in Hyderabad by KVPS (Kula (...)
Instead of debating an alliance with the Congress, Left parties should come to terms with the limits of governmental politics.
This is a debate that has been eternally going on within the Left, particularly within the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CP-M). The central issue is whether or not (...)
A detailed look at the party during Sitaram Yechury’s tenure shows that significant changes have been underway. making a crucial impact on the country’s larger political outlook.
In the last two decades, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has witnessed its highest highs and its lowest lows. (...)
Ramchandra Singh’s shall be another unmarked grave in history. Remembering the anonymous revolutionary from Bangarmau – a man broken in love, and a man whose arrival on this stage of history coincides with his death.
Ramchandra Singh of Bangaramau village, Unnao district, Uttar Pradesh, silently (...)
In Bengal, the party turned institutions into fiefdoms, just like the RSS now wants to make JNU and the government bureaucracy its own.
There is no reason to mourn the death of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). One did hear such laments after the Tripura results came last week. Some on (...)
Media reports on the Communist Party of India (Marxist)’s central committee meeting held in Kolkata (January 19-21, 2018) indicate that the party is majorly divided on the issue of its current political assessment and tactical position. According to these reports, the draft political resolution (...)
The Communist Part of India (Marxist)’s atrophy in West Bengal has dealt a body blow to the Left’s influence in Indian politics
In a 2010 interview to the New Left Review, Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm was asked to list the global events that have surprised him in the post-1991 period—which is (...)
GN Saibaba was sentenced to life in prison for his political convictions. Here we publish an exclusive letter from Nagpur Central Jail’s notorious Anda Cell.
GN Saibaba before his imprisonment.
In March, an Indian court sentenced a Delhi University English literature professor, GN Saibaba, to (...)
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 (...)
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