No to Cut in Subsidies

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement on October 31, 2014.

The finance ministry has decided to implement a ten percent cut in the government’s non-plan expenditure for the current financial year. These austerity measures do not involve only a ban on first air travel or meetings in five star hotels, but subsidies will bear the main brunt of the cuts. This would mean cut in subsidies meant for the people and welfare measures.

Oppose Further Economic Burdens on the People

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement on November 6.

THE union finance minister has, once again, reconfirmed that the Modi government is continuing with the anti-people neo-liberal economic reforms followed by the previous UPA government. Further, the Modi government is set to pursue such reforms more aggressively.

50 Years of the CPI(M): Electoral Politics and Kerala

AFTER the formation of the CPI(M), the first election was conducted in Kerala in the year 1965. It was a time of ordeal for our Party. Most of our leaders were arrested and they were imprisoned by the central government calling them as Chinese agents. This caused a severe crisis on the organisational front.

The Fight against Left Deviation in Kerala

THE CPI(M) was formed as part of the fight against right deviation which had then emerged within the Communist movement in India. While the fight against right deviation had been going on, the extremist Left deviation also appeared within the Party. The fight against both the extremist Left and right trends which had formed within the Communist Party was a usual process.

Seventh Party Congress: A Milestone in Our Movement and Struggle

THE Central Committee has decided to observe the 50th anniversary of the Seventh Congress and has called upon all Party units to observe the anniversary. Accordingly, we are also holding programmes in West Bengal to mark this historic occasion.

Need For Simultaneous Fight against Class Exploitation & Caste Oppression

After the struggle by the CPI(M) and TNUEF, Dalits entering the Muthalamman temple that was "out of bound" for them for many years

THE anti-people policies of the BJP and the Congress have made it very difficult for most of the people to run their day-to-day life. Though they have affected everybody, the worst affected are the rural poor, mainly agricultural workers. Most of them are dalits also. As far as this section is concerned, they are attacked in two ways - economically as well as socially.

Aspects of the” Women’s Question” in Fifty Years of the Formation of the CPI(M)

SINCE its inception in 1920, the Communist party has played a major role in the struggle for the emancipation of women from the chains which enslave them in exploitative socio-economic systems in India. Communist leaders like EMS Namboodiripad, AK Gopalan, P Sundarayya, BT Ranadive played pioneering roles in taking up the issues of women in direct action. Communist initiatives in supporting, mobilising and organising different sections of women in class and democratic struggles on women’s demands got a huge fillip with the formation of the CPI(M).

FIFTY YEARS OF CPI(M): Unify the Working Class, Raise the Consciousness

THE adoption of a Party Programme in the 7th Congress of the Communist Party of India on November 7, 1964 at the then city of Calcutta marked the conclusion of a long drawn political and ideological struggle within the Indian Communist movement. That struggle was about the character of the Indian State and also on the role of the working class in the revolutionary struggle towards a socialist state in India. This also heralded the birth of a new party – the Communist Party of India (Marxist).

On the Fiftieth Anniversary of the CPI(M)

IT was on the day of the triumph of the Great October Socialist Revolution, on its 47th anniversary, November 7 in 1964 that the CPI(M) formally announced its formation with its revolutionary Programme at the conclusion of its 7th Congress. The CPI(M) continues to maintain that the origins of the Indian Communist Party lie in its formation in Tashkent on October 17, 1920.

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.

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