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Nandigram-III: Lessons and Challenges

The year 2007 will be remembered as the year when the CPI(M) completely unmasked itself in the mirror of Nandigram. If January 2007 was re-enacted in March, November witnessed a brutal replay of the atrocities perpetrated in March 2007. Each time the operation has been more lethal and barbaric than the previous episode...Full text

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The Politics of ‘Pay Back’: The Nuke Deal and Nandigram

Following the Congress climbdown on the Nuke Deal, we had cautioned that the “pausing” of the Deal be taken with a pinch of salt, since it was likely that negotiations on the Deal would continue behind the scenes and the Deal would be taken forward at a more opportune political moment....Full text

The Battle for Naya Bihar Goes On

- Dipankar Bhattacharya

(This piece is a slightly abridged version of one written in response to a request by the Patna edition of Hindustan Times. – Ed/) 

I am not among those who treat Bihar as an epitome of backwardness or barbarity. Bihar for me is certainly not a metaphor for stagnation. On the contrary, it is a crucible of ceaseless social and political churning and change. It is one of the most innovative and indelible signatures of radical popular mobilization in today’s India....Full text

Towards Gujarat Elections

Does it surprise you that Sonia Gandhi, the supremo of the ‘secular’ dispensation ruling in New Delhi, in her election-launching speech in Anand, did not even dare to mention Gujarat genocide, recently captured live on camera in the perpetrators’ own gory confessions? Perhaps not, given that her Government failed to take any action against the Modis and Bajrangis despite such clinching evidence...Full text

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8th Congress Draft Documents

Resolution on National Situation and Our Tasks (Drafts)

Resolution on International Situation (Drafts)

Resolution on Agrarian Crisis and the Way Out (Draft)

  Campaign
 

Thousands on the Streets against Operation ‘Nandigrab’

 

In January 2007, masses in Nandigram deserted the ranks of CPI(M) to protest against proposed land grab. They paid a price in blood on March 14 – but they succeeded in forcing the WB Govt to change its land grab plans in that area. Again in November, CPI(M) cadres yet again unleashed a bloodbath on the people of Nandigram – as punishment for deserting the CPI(M) and for defying and defeating SEZs. If Nandigram became a model for anti-SEZ resistance, CPI(M) seemed determined that Nandigram should now become a byword for the most brutal repression, including rape. ..Full text

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More on Bhagat Singh and Our Times

-Arindam Sen

In Bhagat Singh -- The Lighthouse of the Revolutionary Mindset of Indian Youth Vinod Misra observes that, even more important than his immense popularity rivalling that of Gandhi, it was Bhagat Singh's transition from revolutionary terrorism to Marxism that “formed the main basis of the  tacit agreement between British rulers and the Congress leadership to send Bhagat Singh to the gallows.” This did not, of course, prevent Gandhi from praising the patriotism of BS and other 'terrorists'....Full text

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Long Live Comrade Yogeshwar Gope’s Legacy!

Veteran Trade Union leader and indefatigable Communist Comrade Yogeshwar Gope passed away on 25 October 2007. Swapan Mukherjee, All-India General Secretary of AICCTU, pays tribute to him...Full text