Full one year has passed since the peasant struggle in Naxalbari began. This struggle is different from all other peasant struggles. Where is the difference? Peasants have always struggled against
(Excerpts from a piece by Vinod Mishra, Deshabrati, September 1990)
Naxalbari means the beginning of a revolutionary political stream in national politics based on this peasant awakening. Naxalbari did not mean
(Excerpts from an article by Pranay Krishna (translated from Hindi)
which appeared in the Deepavali Special edition of the Hindi daily Prabhat Khabar in November 2009)
The Naxalbari peasant uprising of 1967
(Liberation looks at the linkages between Naxalbari and the birth of India’s democratic rights movement.)
Sattar mein kasa kalkatte par, kuch jawan umangon ke natey
Kas gaya mulk ki gardan par,
(Comrade Shanti Munda is a veteran of the Naxalbari peasant uprising. Goutam Chakraborty and Basudeb Bose spoke to her at her home in Sebdolla Jote in Hatighisa village of Naxalbari
Abhijit Mazumdar
[What was the impact of the Naxalbari movement on family members of CPI(ML) leaders? Here, Abhijit Mazumdar, that speak of his memories of his father Comrade Mazumdar, mother Leela
Punishing Politically Assertive, Self-Reliant Dalits
Who Refuse to be Foot Soldiers of Hindutva’s Hate Politics
(On 5 May, Dalits in Shabbirpur village of Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh were attacked. A CPI(ML)
Kavita Krishnan
Presenting India’s human rights record at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva during the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Process in May 2017, Indian Government representative, Attorney General
(A fact finding team comprising environmental and social activist Priya Pillai, All India Progressive Women's Association Secretary Kavita Krishnan, senior activist Chittaranjan Behera, Santi Snigdha Mohanty of Delhi Solidarity Group,
- Madan Mohan Chamoli and Indresh Maikhuri
Rajendra Dhasmana, born in Pauri Garhwal (Uttarakhand), intellectual-thinker, journalist-editor, theatre activist, cultural activist, and a strong voice of dissent in literature and politics, passed
Even as the central and state governments refuse to improve access and quality of all to government schooling – the only means of equal educational opportunities as well as right
Comrade Parimal Gore, the Convener of Revolutionary Youth Association in Behali and also a district committee member of the CPI(ML), was arrested in Biswanath district, Assam on May 8, for
Arikkad Varghese was one of the young Naxalite revolutionaries organizing the oppressed adivasi people of Wayanad. The Naxalite movement in that area challenged the intense feudal oppression of adivasis who
(‘Mukt Hobe Priya Matribhumi’ - The Beloved Motherland Will Be Free was one of the favourite songs of the Naxalbari movement’s revolutionaries, and it best embodies the movement’s spirit of
(Excerpts from a poem written by Sameer Roy in 1968 during the Naxalbari movement – in memory of Rashmoni, a woman of the Hajong tribe who was killed by the
Senior CPI(ML) leader and steadfast fighter for land rights for the poor, Comrade Asgar Ali was arrested on 17 May 2017 at around 2 PM in Katihar. The party demands
Following circulation of rumours on WhatsApp about child-lifting, seven people were killed on 18 May 2017 by lynch mobs near Jamshedpur in Jharkhand. Three of those killed in the first
- S Kumarasamy
SC is final not because it is infallible. It is infallible only because it is final. SC should accept that it can also commit errors.
As Justice Karnan
He says he wants bread and clothes
Not only that, he wants justice too
On top of that he wants genuine freedom too
Hang him
He says he wants regular work
Not only work, he
