Mainstream Weekly

Let Us All Stop Degeneration of the Country, Immediately Ban Vigilante Organisations

Sitaram Yechury — 2017-08-20T07:07:45Z

The following is the speech of CPI-M General Secretary Sitaram Yechury in the Rajya Sabha on July 19, 2017 during the short-duration discussion on the situation arising out of the reported increase in incidents of lynching and atrocities on minorities and Dalits across the county.
Sir, I am rising to speak with a very heavy heart and also in the background of what happened in the House just now. Sir, the sort of atmosphere that we have seen here does not augur well for our parliamentary (…)

- 2017

Yechury's Letter to PM on Farmers' Plight

Sitaram Yechury — 2017-06-24T21:03:57Z

Dear Pradhan Mantri Ji,
I am writing this letter to draw your attention to the plight of farmers across India, which has resulted in a high level of rural distress, including thousands of suicides by farmers in the past three years. There have been increasing protests by farmers in one State after another, which have been met by your silence and apathy while the State governments of your party have let the police loose on the poor farmers. Six farmers have lost their lives in police firing (…)

- 2017

Idea of India: A New Agenda for Reclaiming Secular Democracy

Sitaram Yechury — 2016-06-26T19:50:58Z

The following is the speech delivered by the CPI-M General Secretary at the EMS Smrithi, Thrissur, (Kerala) on June 13, 2016.
I am, indeed, very happy to be back at the EMS Smrithi. I am honoured to inaugurate this 2016 discussions on the ‘Idea of India: A New Agenda for Reclaiming Secular Democracy'.
‘Idea of India' — The Backdrop
The emergence of Nation-States was integral to the long process of transition of human civilisation from the stage of feudalism to capitalism. This period (…)

- 2016

Congress of the Future

Sitaram Yechury — 2015-05-02T11:02:18Z

At its 21st Congress, the Communist Party of India-Marxist redoubled its resolve for strengthening the Party, the class and mass organisations and unleashing powerful people's struggles for forging the Left and Democratic Front, based on a programmatic alternative to
the current policies being pursued by the Indian ruling classes, with the eventual aim of replacing the bourgeois-landlord class rule by the People's Democratic Front led by the working class. This is the only way that the (…)

- 2015

Comrade Surjeet—the True Marxist

Sitaram Yechury — 2008-08-10T06:39:15Z

* Comrade Surjeet is no more. A flood of memories overwhelms me as I start to write this. I met him first in 1973, 35 years ago. His sharp and, at times, mischievous eyes, and the speed of his speech would often leave me and fellow comrades confused trying to decipher exactly what he had said. He was always quicksilver, thought on his feet, leaving his political adversaries at least two steps behind.
* When I came into the Central Committee in 1984 and started working for the party's (…)

- August 9, 2008