CPM

What’s Left, Comrade Yechury?

Ullekh NP

A new general secretary for the shrinking CPM. Can he make it relevant?

Sitaram Yechury and the last ghost story

S Prasannarajan

Make CPM a social democratic party or dump it for the sake of political hygiene

Miffed VS Achuthanandan leaves party meet in a huff

Shahina KK

The nonagenarian communist went out of the conference hall bidding farewell to the general secretary Prakash Karat who unsuccessfully tried to pacify him

DIDI’S DEADLY GAME

Ullekh NP

A reckless Mamata Banerjee reduces Islamist terror to a Centre-state dispute

The Comrade Who Dared: MV Raghavan (1933 to 2014)

Ullekh NP

A firebrand leader, Raghavan used his sturdy, film-star looks, alpha male image, rugged nature and ruthless ambition to rustle his way through the ranks of the party

As the murder politics of CPM and RSS in northern Kerala continues to seek martyrs in the most gruesome ways, ULLEKH NP in Kannur traces the origins of the violence to a martial tradition of fearlessness and honour