Prakash Karat

The Chinese Connection: The Plot Thickens

PR Ramesh

The long trail of how China influences ideologically friendly media and activists in India—and a prominent figure in the nexus is a senior CPM leader

A Resigned Sigh at CPM Summit

Ullekh NP

And a warning against underestimating BJP and its sway

A Report From the Haunted House of Indian Marxists

Ullekh NP

The 22nd Party Congress of CPM was long on rhetoric and short on realism

What’s Next, Comrade Karat?

S Prasannarajan

Good news: Karat, an ideological classicist, unlike his fellow comrades, does not live under a fascist regime. Will he go a step further risking his own ideological position?

Red Reproach

Ullekh NP

While the CPM admonishes Sitaram Yechury for the Congress tie-up in West Bengal, sympathetic comrades worry about staring at oblivion

Sitaram Yechury: The Secretary is Elsewhere

Ullekh NP

Sitaram Yechury incurs the displeasure of party leaders who want action, not talk, as the new chief goes ahead with plans to hold a plenum in November, just months ahead of crucial polls in Kerala where it is battling against heavy odds to wrest power from the Congress and in West Bengal where it is struggling to retain its second position