Kolkata: Former Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee is likely to step down from the CPM politburo, according to sources on Sunday. The veteran Marxist has purportedly written a letter to party general secretary Prakash Karat conveying his wish to abdicate from the CPM's highest decision-making body. Bhattacharjee has cited illness as the reason behind his unwillingness to continue in the politburo. Bhattacharjee is also not keen to attend the upcoming CPM...
10:21 AM, Apr 02, 2012
New Delhi: With CPI(M) focusing on Left unity, the CPI said on Sunday it would strive to strengthen Left and democratic unity in the country as both Congress and BJP want be in power by "default". The CPI would strive for a "militant" unity to struggle on issues concerning people's livelihood with non-Congress and non-BJP parties. These political and ideological issues would come up for debate at the 21st Congress...
03:00 PM, Mar 25, 2012
Beijing: Facing a host of territorial disputes with its neighbours, China on Monday said its 2.3 million-strong military's focus will be winning "local wars" using cyber as well as modern technology. "The most important thing is to win local wars under information-age conditions," Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said in his work report presented to the National People's Congress on Monday highlighting Chinese military strategy which also underlined that the military...
07:22 PM, Mar 05, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Forget Left unity, the two Communist parties in Kerala have been at each other's throats for a while now. It has reached a crescendo with the smaller of the two, the Communist Party of India (CPI) warning "big brother" Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) to immediately stop abusing it. "Don't provoke us, we give you an ultimatum that please stop uttering abuses against us. We will not take it...
12:27 PM, Feb 13, 2012
Panaji: The two Communist parties will contest seven seats in the Goa assembly the elections for which are scheduled to be held on March 3. The Community Party of India (CPI) would contest five seats while its ally CPI(M) two seats, CPI s state general secretary Christopher Fonseca told reporters on Thursday. CPI has decided to field its candidate in Santa Cruz, Taleigao, Panjim, Priol and Sankhalim constituencies while CPI(M)...
07:17 PM, Jan 12, 2012
Beijing: China is set for "sweeping" leadership changes next year as President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao are due to retire, an official media report said without confirming the widely held view that Vice President Xi Jinping would succeed Hu. "Only the murkiest of crystal balls can't foresee that only China is certain to have a new President and Premier," state-run Global Times, which is also the official organ...
02:23 PM, Jan 09, 2012
Moscow: Just 20 years ago, they seemed consigned to the dustbin of history. At Sunday's parliamentary polls, Russia's communists drew students, intellectuals, even some businessmen in forging an opposition to Vladimir Putin's wounded United Russia party. The Communist Party (CPRF) for most Russians evokes images of bemedalled war veterans and the elderly poor deprived of pensions and left behind in a "New Russia" of glitzy indulgence. Large swathes of society...
05:58 PM, Dec 05, 2011
Veteran quiz master and Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha member Derek O'Brien recently delivered a lecture at Ivy League Yale University on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's ascent to power, her struggling years and what he terms as the people's movement to oust a Communist government that ruled the state for over three decades. IBNLive:The communists had been in power in West Bengal for decades. How did your party take...
11:35 AM, Oct 15, 2011
Kolkata: The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), leader of the alliance voted out of power in West Bengal, has confessed it was unable to produce ideal Communists. "We could not groom ideal Communist leaders and workers," state CPI-M secretary Biman Bose said after an in-depth analysis of the party-led Left Front's electoral defeat in May. The election, which brought the Trinamool Congress to power, ended 34 long years of Communist...
01:53 PM, Oct 05, 2011
New Delhi: Communist Party of India-Marxist politburo member and chief of its trade union arm CITU, MK Pandhe died at the Ram Manohar Lohia hospital in New Delhi a little after midnight on Friday following a cardiac arrest, party sources said. He was 86. Pandhe was admitted to the hospital around 8 pm on Friday after he complained of chest pain. His end came at 12:20 am on Saturday. Born...
08:37 AM, Aug 20, 2011
Havana: Fidel Castro marked his 85th birthday outside of the public spotlight on Saturday, with little fanfare around the aging revolutionary icon who is rarely seen in public these days but still casts a long shadow over Cuban society. There were no announced celebrations of Castro's birthday, though the previous night two dozen musical acts from across Latin America held a concert in his honor. "What we say in the...
12:47 PM, Aug 13, 2011
New Delhi: On the 107th birth anniversary of Nobel literature laureate Pablo Neruda, a leftist poet who died after the 1973 coup that ousted a socialist government, we pay tribute to some of his best works. Neruda, among Latin America's most renowned literary figures and an active Communist Party member, died of cancer on September 23, 1973 just days after then-president Salvador Allende was toppled and General Augusto Pinochet rose...
02:37 PM, Jul 12, 2011
Jinggangshan: Bracing for key leadership changes, China's 80-million strong Communist Party is getting ready for yet another long-haul with an ideological makeover to avert a Soviet Union-style collapse which spelled doom for communism worldwide. Celebrating its 90th anniversary this year, the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) is going through the phase of "nervous sixties" as it completed 62 years in power, according to some of the party officials. "The Soviet Communist...
07:27 AM, Jun 21, 2011
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12:45 PM, Jun 17, 2011
Vijayawada: In the backdrop of growing demand for introduction of Lokpal Bill by August 15, Communist Party of India leader D Raja on Sunday said that the Parliament should not be bypassed as far as the discussion of the bill is concerned. "Bills are made in parliament but parliament should not be bypassed. If UPA has the will, it should consult political parties and take them into confidence and discuss...
06:49 PM, Jun 12, 2011
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