The Alternate Development Strategy in Kerala

IS it possible to have a regional alternative development strategy under the bourgeois-landlord federal state? The Left state governments in India have been prompted by such a positive vision and a successful case is that of Kerala. Kerala has been able to provide its ordinary citizens the basic needs like education, health care, at least hutment land, housing, old-age social security and so on. As a result, the quality of life of the people as proved by a number of human development indices is much above the national average.

Against Ratifying Paris Agreement on Climate Change

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement on September 27, 2016.PRIME Minister Modi's announcement that India would ratify the Paris Agreement on Climate Change is both surprising and violative of the assurance that this BJP government had given to parliament.Soon after the Paris Summit, the parliament was assured that India would not ratify the Paris Agreement until the national laws relating to environment, forests and energy are examined in the light of their capacity to implement the various provisions of the Paris Agreement.

Celebrate October Revolution Centenary 2016-17

THE 21st Congress of the Party had adopted a resolution directing the Party to conduct a year-long observance of the centenary of the Great October Socialist Revolution.

CPI(M) Delegation’s Eventful Bilateral Visit

AT the invitation of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), a CPI(M) delegation headed by Sitaram Yechury, general secretary and Mridul De, Central Committee member and West Bengal CPI(M) state secretariat member visited Greece from September 21 to 26. This visit has further strengthened the relations between the CPI(M) and the KKE. The programme organised by the KKE for the visit was very intensive. Apart from detailed discussions with the general secretary of the KKE, D Koutsoumpas, the delegation had separate meetings discussing substantive issues of mutual interest and concern with the

Ten Years after Khairlanji: New Impetus for Struggles

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016 marks the tenth anniversary of the Khairlanji atrocity.

Thinking Together

The eighth BRICS Summit is going to be held in Goa in the month of October 2016. How does the CPI(M) view the role of BRICS in the background of the internal political developments in these countries?R Sengupta, KolkataTHE eighth BRICS Summit is going to be held in Goa on October 15-16, 2016. BRICS is a grouping of five developing countries, which together constitute 42 percent of the world's population and more than 14 percent of the world's GDP. The global economic crisis has enhanced the importance of the developing countries in the world economy.

The TPP and US Politics

A PECULIAR charade is being played out during the current US election campaign. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) which is an economic agreement between the US and several Asian countries has been under negotiation for almost eight years now. For four of these eight years, Hillary Clinton was the secretary of state and hence directly supervising these negotiations; and even after she quit that job she has remained a prominent figure around the Obama administration, even if not part of it.

CPI(M) Delegation Visits Greece

A TWO-member delegation consisting of Sitaram Yechury, CPI(M) general secretary and Mridul De, Central Committee member is on a four day visit from September 21, to Greece at the invitation of the Communist Party of Greece. During this visit they would be having bilateral talks and exchanges on the international situation and the situation in their respective countries.

SAHMAT Organises Programme on Article 14

THE constitution of India under Article 14 guarantees each and every individual irrespective of any caste, class or gender differentiation the right to equality. Unfortunately, under the aegis of the current ruling dispensation there have been repeated attempts to curtail this fundamental right in case of certain groups including dalits and other marginalised sections of the society. To bring to light the everyday violation of this right as perceived by the dalits an evening of protest songs and music was held on September 15, 2016 at Mavalankar Hall, New Delhi.

On Merger of Railway Budget

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement on September 22, 2016.THE decision by the union cabinet to merge the railway budget with the general budget is a unilateral step without discussion in parliament. It was parliament which was empowered to discuss railway finances and development.The abolition of a separate railway budget is not what it is purported to be.

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