CPI(M) and the Agrarian Question

IN this article, I am giving a bare outline to how the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has been trying to tackle the agrarian question in India in the context of the changes that are happening with the growth of capitalist production relations and lately with the imperialist-driven globalisation. A detailed analysis of this issue is reserved for later.

Changes in MGNREGA Will Affect the Poor: Manik Sarkar

TRIPURA Chief Minister Manik Sarkar has written a letter to the prime minister, on November 3, apprising him of the problems faced by the state and its people with regards to MGNREGA allocations. Sarkar said despite being the best performing state in carrying out MGNREGA projects, the central government has reduced allocation for Tripura, and requested the prime minister to look into the problems of the state sympathetically and advise the concerned ministry to release funds immediately.

FIFTY YEARS OF CPI(M): A Historic Anniversary

THE formation of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) marked an important stage in the Communist movement of the country. Fifty years ago, 32 members of the National Council of the Communist Party of India walked out of the National Council meeting and decided later to re-found the Communist Party based on a new Programme. On this historic anniversary, we commemorate the role played by this section of the leadership of the united party.

Once Again ‘Forked Tongue’ Politics

FINALLY, elections to the Delhi assembly appear set to take place early next year. The union cabinet, at a special cabinet meeting presided over by the prime minister on November 4, ratified Delhi Lt. Governor’s recommendation to dissolve the Delhi assembly, with immediate effect, and, thus, begin the process of fresh election in the nation’s capital. With this, the process for November 25 by-elections to three seats vacated by BJP members elected to the Lok Sabha should automatically stand cancelled.

CPI(M) to Hold All India Protest Day on Nov 26 Against BJP Govt’s Moves to Subvert MGNREGA

The CPI(M) will organise a Mass Dharna in Delhi on Nov 26 led by chief minister of Tripura, Manik Sarkar against BJP government’s moves to curtail MGNREGA, which is a serious onslaught on the rights and livelihood of the rural poor. It calls upon all the democratic forces and mass organisations to unitedly oppose these changes.

Punish the Guilty

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement on November 5, 2014.

THE Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) strongly condemns the brutal killing in Chattargram, Kashmir of two innocent schoolboys, one of them a student of Class 7, by the army. Two others were seriously injured in the firing.

Week Long Protest Campaign by Six Left Parties

A meeting of six Left parties – Communist Party of India (Marxist), Communist Party of India, Revolutionary Socialist Party, All India Forward Bloc, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)-Liberation and Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) was held in New Delhi on November 1, 2014. They have issued the following statement.

CPI(M) Delegation Meets Vietnam PM

CPI(M) Delegation led by General Secretary Prakash Karat met Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, who was on a State visit to India, on November 27 . The other members of the delegation were Sitaram Yechury, Polit Bureau member and R Arun Kumar, member, International Department of the CPI(M).

PM’s Hollow Claims on Bringing Back Black Money

ONE after another, all the election promises made by Prime Minister Modi during his whirlwind nationwide campaign, in a corporate jet, are turning out to be completely hollow – full of bluster and no substance. On earlier occasions, we had exposed the feature of this Modi government with regard to its so-called `economic miracles’, achhe din aanewale hain etc etc. Now it is the turn of the prime minister’s bluster concerning the claim that `his government’ will ensure that all the illegal black money stashed away in foreign banks in financial `havens’ will be brought back to the

I am (A)Santhosh

MY name is Santosh. I am eight years old. I stay in Jayanagar in Benguluru. I do not know why he had hit me on that day, when I said the place where I stay. I do not understand why all of you are coming to me today. If all this has got something to do with the place where I stay, please tell me what is it? I am not understanding anything.All of it had started on that Sunday when I went to play near the temple. All my friends are playing happily when we saw that the poojari of the nearby temple distributing prasadam to the people.

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