Sitaram Yechury However awesome and intractable the task may ap¬pear, any Marxist will have to contend with the task of analysing the modern developments of imperialism, if for no other reason but to grasp the contours of the dimen¬sions of contemporary class struggle. The CPI(M), rather
Sitaram Yechury It is just over a year since the new phase of the land struggle in Bihar had been initiated by the CPI(M) led Kisan Sabha and the Khet Mazdoor Union, last August. A year in which over 22,000 acres of land – being illegally cultivated by the landlords over and above the
Sitaram Yechury After centuries of grim struggles, the longest ever by any people for their independence in modern history, the South African people are finally voting on the basis of the fundamental democratic principle of `one man – one vote’ for a new government. Thus culminating
Sitaram Yechury The so-called Action Taken Report (ATR) placed by the government on the JPC’s recommendations regarding the bank/securities scam is a shameless defence of the culprits who perpetrated the worst ever fraud in independent India. The Janakiraman Committee had estimated a loss
Sitaram Yechury The seventy seventh anniversary of the Great October Revolution is being observed three years after the disintegration of the USSR and the dismantling of the socialist system. These three years have been those of intense ideological bombardment by the forces of reaction. In the
Sitaram Yechury The first ever visit by an Israeli foreign minister, and in this case a former Prime Minister, marks a significant shift in India’s foreign policy. Over the last couple of years India has been showing signs of retracting from its earlier foreign policy positions when it
Sitaram Yechury The BJP/RSS/VHP/Bajrang Dal etc. (Saffron Shirts-or SS- for short; the resemblance to Hitlers’ Brown shirts and infamous SS is more than coincidental) continues to defend its criminal destruction of the Babri Masjid. In the process it has mastered the technique of
Sitaram Yechury The process of disinvestment of the public sector is the gigantic fraud committed on the Indian people. Together with the loss suffered due to the bank scam, this amount of money would have ensured that our country need not have gone to the IMF or to any external creditor to
Sitaram Yechury The BJP-RSS-VHP-Bajrang Dal (Saffron Shirts – S.S. for short: the resemblance to the Hitler’s infamous S.S. and Brown Shirts is more than coincidental) not only continues to brazenly defend the wanton destruction of the Babri Masjid but is in fact justifying it as a
Sitaram Yechury Many find it strange, at times amusing, that Marxists, confirmed atheists, are quoting religious personalities and scriptures to expose the pseudo-Hindu character of the Saffron Brigade today. The advocates of fascistic pseudo-Hinduism embarrassed by such exposure, take refuse