Communist Party of India

On People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration

Vol. 55, Issue No. 44, 31 Oct, 2020

The new alliance is reconfigured around the prospect of democratic politics, but its realisation may face challenges.

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Elections in Andhra Pradesh

Vol. 54, Issue No. 32, 10 Aug, 2019

The Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party, by defeating regional and national parties in the 2019 parliamentary and assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh, has secured a massive mandate. Its victory in this multiparty contest can be attributed to the padayatra, consistency in the stand for special category status, promise to implement welfare schemes, and its effective campaign.

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Kanhaiya Kumar In Begusarai: Old Fault Lines and New Struggles for Radical Political Change

Vol. 54, Issue No. 20, 18 May, 2019

The need to confront and defeat the authoritarian tendencies of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the neo-liberal state has become ever more pressing. What are the issues when this challenge is to be met by contesting democratic elections? A month-long ethnographic study of Kanhaiya Kumar's campaign in Begusarai, Bihar speculates on its implications for progressive politics.

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Tebhaga–Telangana to Naxalbari–CPI(ML)

Vol. 52, Issue No. 21, 27 May, 2017

Arindam Sen

Even as the Naxalbari uprising was quickly crushed, the revolutionary communists painstakingly spread the movement and founded the All India Coordination Committee of Communist Revolutionaries and the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist). Naxalbari differed from the Telangana uprising, which did not spread to other provinces and left no immediate trail after the setback mainly because no all-India party was built for the purpose. The movement–party dialectic is explored to better understand the radical communist movement in India.

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Chittaprosad (1915-78)

Vol. 51, Issue No. 10, 05 Mar, 2016

Arup Kumar Sen

The birth centenary of Chittaprosad, the radical artist from Bengal, was last year. Born in 1915 at Naihati in present-day North 24 Parganas District, West Bengal, Chittaprosad settled in Chattagram, now in Bangladesh.

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University and the Nation

Vol. 51, Issue No. 7, 13 Feb, 2016

Manash Bhattacharjee

If nationalist sentiments are the only and final prerogative to belong to an academic community, then it must also be reiterated, a university has no business to share these sentiments. The founding figures of JNU knew it and it is upon the entire community of students, teachers and concerned citizens to safeguard the university against such jingoistic versions of nationalism.

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Political Intolerance in Bengal

Vol. 51, Issue No. 2, 09 Jan, 2016

Debatra K Dey

Political intolerance is a bigger problem than religious intolerance in West Bengal. How will this affect the 2016 Assembly elections in West Bengal?

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Human Development in Kerala

Vol. 37, Issue No. 16, 20 Apr, 2002

G K Lieten

The first CPI-led government in Kerala in the late 1950s introduced key policy changes that have since become associated with the Kerala development model. This article makes an attempt to assess the long-term effects of this innovative approach followed, especially in the two crucial sectors of education and land reform. In seeking to map progress in such key human development aspects, it also seeks to establish the role of social mobilisation and in assigning to the key figure of the 'Kutiamma' her due place in history. But while the impact of social changes on people remains little documented and rests on extrapolation, this period is also assessed in terms of backward and forward linkages - those societal changes that existed before the CPI's election victory as well as changes brought on by the government's own reform measures that in turn led to further political and social development.