PRAGOTI

Prabhat Patnaik, eminent Marxist economist, writes on the legendary leader, Com. Jyoti Basu

By whatever metric adopted - comparison with the previous election results, or with the Lok Sabha results, the verdict from the Bengal civic elections is resoundingly clear. There is a collective fatigue among the people of West Bengal with Left Front rule in the state and even if the total voting population in these set of elections were only about 17% of the overall, the message is all too quite clear. 

The UPA-II government is completing one year of its tenure on May 22. What has it meant for the aam admi? How does it compare with the first one year of the previous UPA government which ran on Left support? Prakash Karat writes on UPA-II's yearlong record. He argues that relentless food inflation and the pursuit of neoliberal and pro-imperialist policies have fuelled mass struggles and made the Government vulnerable.  

CPI(M) Central Committee member Com.E.P.Jayarajan writes about the relevance of land struggle,in the context of recent tribal agitation for land,in Wayanad district of Kerala. (Translated from malayalam)