PRAGOTI

Nine years have passed since 15^th November 2000, when the state of Jharkhand was formed on the promise of freedom and self-governance for the Adivasis

Saibal Bishnu and Chirashree Das Gupta argue that the attempts to build a 'coalition of the willing' by the opposition in West Bengal, despite its motley hues, is bound together by the common agenda of anti-communism.

Prachanda says: “Even when the People’s War was going on, we concluded that multiparty competition is a must even in socialism. Not only in the phase of democratic revolution but also in the phase of socialism, if multiparty competition is not there then a vibrant society will not be possible." The Nepalese Maoists have embarked upon a journey in a new direction. The contours of their political strategy and tactics as well as their economic thinking have been clearly articulated. We only hope that Ganapathy and his Party learn the appropriate lessons from this long march towards people’s democracy.

Last one in a series analyzing the opportunist trend exposed in the recent party congress of CPI[ML] Liberation and its call for establishing an alternative left.