Nelson Mandela

Homage To Nelson Mandela: To Beat the Unbeatable Foe

Nelson Mandela is no more. When my generation was in its teens, a popular song went as follows: 'To dream the impossible dream/To fight the unbeatable foe/To bear with unbearable sorrow/To run where the brave dare not go/To right the unrightable wrong.../To reach the unreachable star/This is my quest/To follow that star/No matter how hopeless/No matter how far...'
If there is one person who lived up to these ambitions and more importantly reached these milestones in his own lifetime, it was Nelson Mandela, Madiba as he was fondly called.

Homage Paid to Mandela

ON December 9, 2013, a condolence meeting organised at A K Gopalan Bhavan, the CPI(M) headquarters in New Delhi, paid homage to Nelson Mandela, the legendary figure who led the fight against apartheid in South Africa. Addressing the party workers on this occasion, Sitaram Yechury, member of the CPI(M) Polit Bureau, underlined some aspects of Nelson Mandela’s life and work which the bourgeois media, even while eulogising Mandela, seeks to hide from the people.

Mandela, For You and For Me

IT is 7.30 in the evening and we have to rush for our school at 8.00. Yes, school! These days, we are going to a school after work to learn how to read – both the alphabet and the world. Some young people have started it some days ago and wanted all of us to come. We were shy in the beginning, but after two days, became very fond of it as they are telling us many new things happening around us.

World Bows to Mandela

THE SPECIAL Air India plane carrying a six-member delegation headed by President Pranab Mukherjee, to attend the international memorial service for Nelson Mandela on December 10, landed in the midst of heavy rain at the Waterkloof military airbase, Pretoria, South Africa. This was once a notorious military base for the apartheid South African government that mounted its oppressive air attacks against the non-white South African people whom they mercilessly exploited and segregated.

Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela

THE Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) mourns the demise of Nelson Mandela, the iconic freedom fighter of South Africa, who passed away on December 5, 2013. Mandela is a lofty symbol of not only the people of South Africa, whom he led in a long, arduous and bloody struggle for freedom against one of the most brutal, blatantly fascist regimes in the world, dyed in rabidly racist ideology of white supremacy, which perfected the system of racial segregation and oppression --- apartheid.

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