However much the killing of six farmers in police firing at Mandsaur in Madhya Pradesh may have shocked and enraged the entire country, the BJP could not be any less
The third National Conference of the All India Kisan Mahasabha was held on 9-10 June 2017 in Jharkhand's Hazaribagh town (named Birsa Nagar after the great Birsa Munda for the
Dipankar Bhattacharya
It is now 50 years since Naxalbari, an otherwise obscure area near the India-Nepal border in Darjeeling district of West Bengal, had stormed its way into India’s political
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
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
On the occasion of 50th Anniversary of the great peasants uprising in Naxalbari, Siliguri town turned into a red sea of activists waving flags and banners on 25 May 2017.
In lieu of Editorial
(Adopted by the CPI(ML) Central Committee on the Occasion of 50th Anniversary of the Naxalbari Uprising on 25 May 2017)
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of
Daylight Assault on Democracy, Legalized Corruption and Company Raj
(The manner in which the Finance Bill 2017 was passed in the Lok Sabha was a complete violation of parliamentary democracy. Several
(Kavita Krishnan reviews the second volume of poems by Chandramohan S, a Kerala-based Indian English Dalit poet.)
Chandramohan’s poetry has the contemporary sharpness of a news bulletin, the headline of the
Last week, Comrade Santosh Roy, National Secretary of AICCTU and a long-standing leader of the DTC Workers’ Unity Centre, was traveling on the violet line of the Delhi metro. Opposite
Once again, Delhi is almost choking. The 20 million residents of Delhi are suffering from persistent coughs, burning eyes, itchy throats, asthma and bronchitis. And yes, this is simply because
A silent revolution in the realm of philosophy and politics took place in 1845 when the young Karl Heinrich Marx concluded his Thesis on Feuerbach with the assertion "The philosophers
