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CPM

No More Only Red, Comrade!

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Are blue- and orange-coloured hammer and sickle symbols in sync with the CPM’s ideology?

Whispers of a Witch-hunt

With searchlights out for ‘bourgeois tendencies’ within the party, the CPM drives one of its own leaders to his death.

India This Week

Karat Gives in to Detractors; Cheek for a Cheek; Proving Their Track Record; Desperate Buddha Vibes; No Centre-State Harmony in Kashmir Song

Karat versus Yechury

Partners once, rivals now. There is a deep split within the CPM that threatens to surface if the party loses Bengal.

India This Week

Done In by the Chinese; Shaken by 26/11, Industry Worries about Security; Simmering Seven in the North-east; and Hindi Lesson for Raj from Tamil Nadu

‘No Compromise on Leading Rebellions’

CPM General Secretary Prakash Karat on the difficulties his party faces in the 2011 West Bengal Assembly election, the threat from Maoists and his error in allowing the UPA government to negotiate a safeguards agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency in November 2007.

India This Week

The Brothers Reddy and Their Swaraj; CPM Stops in its Tracks; US Bars Indian Spooks; MNS-Azmi Fracas; and By-Poll Mayhem for CPM

More Marxist Than Thou

If you think Prakash Karat would be lying low after his party’s recent rout, think again. He’s back at the helm with a grand plan for change

India This Week

CPM’s war against the media; A big blow to Naxals; University for the disabled; BJP’s Facebook face-off; and DMK’s poll booty for terrorists

The Loneliness of Buddhadeb

Can Bengal’s poet-playwright Chief Minister pull out of his current depression in time for the looming Assembly elections?

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