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हाल के विधानसभा चुनावों और राजस्थान में वामपंथी आन्दोलन के अनुभवों के बारे में जनवादी महिला समिति की राजस्थान राज्य सचिव और सी.पी.आई.एम की राज्य समिति सदस्या दुर्गा स्वामी से प्रगति के संपादक मंडल सदस्य टिकेन्दर पंवार का विशेष साक्षात्कार।

We are in for challenging days ahead. The struggle has to be three-pronged-against subordination to the empire, against the effects of such policies which result in economic distress of the people like inflation and against communal attempts to divide our people. But as history has shown -- Left-- articulating those concerns--- can never be isolated.

An article on the controversy over the new textbook for 7th Std. Students of Kerala. Original article in Malayalam - ‘Manushyathwam Vilayunna Padhangal’ - by T. K. Narayanadas Published in ‘Deshabhimani’ Daily on Friday, 20 June 2008.

Badri Raina commends the CPI(M) for its role in breaking the caste-apartheid wall in Uthapuram in Madurai District, Tamil Nadu. Courtesy ZNET. Photo: courtesy Frontline

Teresa Albano shares her views on the left democratic movement in India.

1978-2008 - thirty years. Many things have changed in this period except one - regular Panchayat elections held every five years. No other state in the country apart from West Bengal has this record of regular elections for the past 30 years. In West Bengal, the beacon of democracy in the entire country, the struggle to break the concentration of land, the key asset in the village, continues. Because of this, in West Bengal, in all these years the land owned by small and marginal farmers has increased to about 84 percent. West Bengal’s journey on this alternate path in the face of imperialist globalization and neo-liberalism has made it a thorn in the eyes of the class-enemies.

The 19th Congress of Communist Party of India (Marxist) is just over. The leadership of the Party has shown their collective wisdom in achieving continuity with the requirements of the changing world. That the Party is now poised for addressing the people's concern is more than apparent.

Forging correct alliances, for the Marxists, is a political trapeze act which will test all their dialectical and political skills, says Girish Nikam in India Interacts.

Bios and photos of Politburo Members of the CPI(M) after the 19th Congress held in Coimbatore.

List of CC Members after the 19th Congress of the CPI(M)