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Roll back of Fuel Prices - An Imperative, to arrest galloping Price Rise

Thu, 2010-03-04 10:20 | Pragoti

That food prices have broken the ceiling and have gone beyond control, is a tragedy that is affecting many sections of the Indian population today. Yet the government has only compounded the misery by increasing fuel prices as well. It is imperative that the government must roll back the hiked fuel prices and must work on a war-footing to arrest galloping inflation. A post on the issue.

THE WORKING CLASS MOVEMENT IN INDIA: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

Tue, 2009-09-29 22:52 | Professor Venkatesh Athreya

Economist Venkatesh Athreya delivered an inaugural lecture during the national seminar "The Working Class Movement in India- Past,Present,Future" on September 24-25, 2009 at at the University of Mumbai. Pragoti carries the text of the lecture as a story. 

The Need for a New Socialist Vision

Mon, 2009-08-10 12:34 | Prabir Purkayastha

Prabir Purkayastha argues that the Left needs to recreate a new vision of socialism by moving away from the 20th century Fordian paradigm to a new way of looking at future production systems.

On the Lok Sabha Election Results: Reviewing the Party’s Performance

Sat, 2009-07-18 12:10 | Prakash Karat
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''A Communist Party must face many ups and downs in the course of developing the Party and movement. An election reverse should not demoralise us. We should go to the people with the confidence that we can rally them around the Left platform. The people of the country expect the CPI(M), as the biggest contingent of the Left, to steer a course that will provide an alternative to the current ruling order. In order to so, the Party has to strengthen Left unity and gather other secular and democratic forces by drawing them into joint action.A common platform must emerge from which to defend national sovereignty, secularism and fight for alternative economic policies''-writes CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat in The Marxist.

CPI(M)'s Review of Election 2009

Sun, 2009-06-28 09:58 | CPI(M)

The Central Committee of the CPI(M) in its meeting held on June 20 and 21 has adopted a review of the 15th Lok Sabha elections.

 

We present the full text of the review here.

CPI(M) Central Committee on the Lok Sabha Election Results

Tue, 2009-06-23 15:23 | CPI(M)

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) met in Delhi on June 20 & 21, 2009. It has issued the following statement:

The Left debacle in West Bengal

Fri, 2009-06-05 09:53 — subhanil

This is my article published in the latest issue of the magazine COVERT.

Some tentative notes on Verdict 2009

Fri, 2009-05-29 14:17 | R.Ramakumar

 Some tentative notes on Verdict 2009 

The results of the 2009 elections to the Parliament have surprised most observers. Indeed, it appears from most reactions that the conclusions to be drawn from the results are straightforward and obvious. Some of the most common reactions from the mainstream commentators are as follows. 

Defeat In Pigsty

Wed, 2009-05-20 22:01 | Saibal Bishnu

Saibal Bishnu takes on the debate about the electoral debacle of the Left.