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Reflections on the Left

Fri, 2009-07-03 23:20 | Prabhat Patnaik

Prabhat Patnaik's reflections on the loss suffered by the Left in the recent Loksabha election.

Source: 
http://networkideas.org/news/jul2009/news01_Reflections.htm

Remembering EMS

Thu, 2009-03-19 12:00 | EMS Namboodiripad
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Today we remember one of India's greatest revolutionaries and Marxist theorists, Com. Elamkulam Manakkal Sankaran Namboodiripad, or EMS for short. He passed away on 19 March, 1998 leaving behind him an illustrious legacy of revolutionary commitment and action combined with deep theoretical understanding of Marxism. His writings have been essential readings for generations of communists in India and elsewhere. On this occasion, we reproduce an article Com. EMS wrote some months before his death on the why it is important for the left to build a political platform to oppose the parties of the big bourgeoisie.

Those interested in knowing more about his life and work can read V K Ramachandran's good and succint article written immediately after his death.

Source: 
Frontline

25 Years of the All India Agricultural Workers Union

Tue, 2008-11-18 10:59 | India News Network
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The demands of the poorest and most oppressed cannot be swept under the carpet. They must and will be heard.

Sweet Time for the Left in India

Tue, 2008-09-23 11:42 | Badri Raina

Whether or not the Indian neocons say it publicly, the shamefaced thought must certainly occur to them how fortuitous, after all, might have been their dependence on the Left parties over some four years of its governance. Indeed, the Indian Prime Minister may privately be thanking his stars that he, in his own words, was a "bonded slave" of the supporting Left parties.

Imperialism, The Indian Left and the Struggle for Social Justice

Fri, 2008-08-22 18:23 | Prasenjit Bose and Chirashree Das Gupta

Prasenjit Bose, Convenor, Research Cell, CPI(M) and Chirashree Das Gupta, member, Pragoti Editorial Team reply to Professor Amartya Sen's remarks about the left's withdrawal of support to the UPA government over the issue of the operationalisation of the Indo-US Nuclear Deal.

The Continuing Relevance of the Left in India

Mon, 2008-08-18 13:48 | Justin Podur
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Justin Podur is a writer and activist of Indian (Malayali) origin, born and based in Toronto, Canada. Following is an article on the left in India carved out from a speech made by Podur to honour T.K.Ramachandran, activist on the left and an intellectual in Kerala who passed away recently.

Mid-Course Deviation

Wed, 2008-08-13 22:51 | C.P. Chandrasekhar

The Indian Left cannot be accused of deviance for its decision to withdraw its support for the UPA government on the issue of the Indo-US nuclear deal. It has for long espoused the position that given the aggressive expansionism of the US under Bush, the silence or collaboration of other major capitalist powers in response to this aggression and the end of multipolarity after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the contradiction between Imperialism led by the US and the people of developing countries like India had emerged as the principal contradiction of our times. Supporting any truck with the US would have meant both a violation of its programme and a betrayal of its cadre and the people. Unresolvable disagreement over any attempt to forge a strategic relationship with the US through the instrumentality of a specially crafted nuclear deal was inevitable,says C.P.Chandrasekhar