If you are a trained ‘intellectual’ from JNU, Jadavpur, as well as TISS, then Latin America, its intellectual contributions, and its centrality in the worldwide fight against ugly capitalism are not to be downplayed.
While the Left-led CPI(M)’s dominance in West Bengal and Kerala has had a rich history, the Left in India has struggled to find space for its ideology in contemporary politics, rarely gaining momentum for expansion.
In 'Comrades and Comebacks', Saira Shah Halim offers a rich historical narrative that foregrounds Left politics in world history, locates its relevance in India, and charts a future of its revival.
Has the Left learnt any lessons from the 2019 Lok Sabha elections? Absolutely not, going by the CPI(M)’s political resolution discussed at its 24th Congress at Madurai in Tamil Nadu.
Sitaram Yechury, the former Rajya Sabha MP and CPI(M) general secretary who died Thursday, was ideologically sound, politically committed, socially acceptable, and culturally refined, writes his colleague Md Salim.
Within a decade of coming to power in Kerala in 1957, the cracks in the Communist Party were showing. A British 'spy', Nehru, and China made them wider.
This year, Jawan and The Kerala Story both won National Awards. The irony was impossible to miss. One critiqued the system, the other endorsed its narratives. The dichotomy says more about India’s cultural schizophrenia than any film review ever could.
New CPI series will take 2024 as base year, will provide more accurate measure of inflation, spending on digital services. Expected to enhance representation and reliability, says Saurabh Garg.
The agreement, signed after meeting between Rajnath and US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on sidelines of ADMM-Plus in Kuala Lumpur, aims to deepen bilateral ties in the critical sector.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
Struggle for issues of the common people. Do not manufacture issues when there are none. Yes, this is the hard reality that some of the people need to come to terms with. This unnecessary romanticisation of struggle served no good.
Struggle for issues of the common people. Do not manufacture issues when there are none. Yes, this is the hard reality that some of the people need to come to terms with. This unnecessary romanticisation of struggle served no good.
Its full of insights and nicely summed up. A great contribution to Left discourse.
Whatever prompts the writer has thrown into chatgpt, it hasn’t worked it’s a real mishmash of someone else’s work pirated into this article
Anti-capitalism and smoking cigarettes are characteristic of leftists, it is impossible to let go of those things.