CPM

Comrade vs Comrade

Dhirendra K. Jha

The dice is loaded in favour of the Kerala faction of the CPM in its stand-off with the Bengal unit. Yet, this marks the Marxist party’s most bitter internal divide yet.

Karat to Face His Party’s Music

Dhirendra K. Jha

An extended meeting of the CPM’s Central Committee in August is expected to call him to account for overstepping the party’s political line.

No More Only Red, Comrade!

arindam

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

Whispers of a Witch-hunt

Dhirendra K. Jha

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

India This Week

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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

Dhirendra K. Jha

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

India This Week

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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’

Amit Baruah

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.