BJP Yatra

Sitaram Yechury The BJP has embarked on yet another yatra. This time not one but four. The comparatively lukewarm response notwithstanding, these are an effort on its part to regain lost initiative. The developments in the last couple of months — the CPI(M)-sponsored no-confidence motion,

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Birth Centenary of Mao Zedong

Sitaram Yechury The birth centenary of Mao Zedong is an appropriate occasion to recollect the gigantic impact of the Chinese revolution on world history. The significance of the event needs little repetition. The very nature and complexity of such a herculean effort makes it impossible to

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Assassination of Chris Hani

Sitaram Yechury Chris Hani, General Secretary of the South African Communist Party (SACP) was assassinated on Saturday, April 10, 1993. This shockingly premature termination of a vibrant symbol of the South African people has robbed the liberation struggle movement of its tallest leaders and

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Testamanet of Contradictory Eloquence

Sitaram Yechury Mr. Advani’s articles (Indian Express December 27-28,1992) are a testament of contradictory eloquence. Duplicity and subterfuge characterise the painful attempt to whitewash the BJP’s criminal, violation of law, the shameful capitulation of the assurances that its

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175th Birth Anniversary of Karl Marx

Sitaram Yechury Totally contradicting the much tom-tomed prognosis of the `death of communism’ by bourgeois ideologues and imperialist pen-pushers, the developments during the last two years, since the dismantling of the socialism in USSR in 1991, have tellingly vindicated the validity

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Work out a Comprehensive Strategy

Sitaram Yechury The recent wide ranging interview of the Russian Foreign Minister in The Hindustan Times must finally set in motion the long overdue need to work out a comprehensive strategy by the South Block to assess and meet the new post-cold war equations. That the absence of the Socialist

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PSEUDO – HINDU FASCISM

Sitaram Yechury NO single incident has destroyed the foundations of modern secular India as the wanton preplanned destruction of the Babri Masjid on December 6. The BJP-VHP-RSS-Bajrang Dal (in short SS – Saffron Shirts – the resemblance to Hitler’s infamous SS and Brown Shirts

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INDIA AT CROSSROADS : The Left Alternative

Sitaram Yechury The relevance and validity of the position adopted by various political formations in India today can be assessed only on the basis of the problems confronting the country and their suggested solutions. On the basis of such an approach it will be found that the positions of the

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FOREIGN POLICY An Year Of Ambivalence

Sitaram Yechury The first year of the minority Congress(I) government headed by P.V. Narasimha Rao has been marked by ambivalence and vacillations with regard to India’s foreign policy positions. Notwithstanding the positive elements like the improvement of relations with the

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