Mainstream Weekly

Relevance of Marxism in Contemporary World

Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy — 2018-05-20T09:24:32Z

Karl Marx was an eminent philosopher, renowned economist, historian, journalist, political ideologue, revolutionary socialist, great intellectual and multilingual expert. Karl Marx obtained a law degree and simultaneously studied Hegelian philosophy. The bicentenary of his birth is being celebrated in a spectacular way all over the world from May 5, 2018 onwards throughout the year.
Marx was a great scientific thinker, yet there are some pseudo-intellectuals who have distorted Marxism. (…)

- 2018

Sudhakar's Letter to Modi on Agrarian Crisis

Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy — 2017-06-24T21:01:11Z

Dear Shri Narendra Modiji,
Sub: Unprecedented Agrarian Crisis—Request for urgent special session of Parliament
This is to bring to your attention that the country is facing an unprecedented agrarian crisis. There was famine and drought in some States like Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Rayalaseema area of Andhra Pradesh and parts of Odisha, while there is bumper crop in some other areas which is a contrast.
The bumper crop and good yield have become a curse to the peasants. The prices of Onion, (…)

- 2017

Tribute to Dr Rajbahadur Gour

Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy — 2011-11-08T08:40:56Z

With the passing away of Dr Rajbahadur Gour, one of the heroes of the Telangana armed struggle, one of the last links of the present generation with the past in the Hyderabad state has snapped. Comrade Raj, as he was popularly known in Hyderabad, was 94 when he breathed his last on October 7.
Raj was born in a middle class Kayasth family in the Old City of Hyderabad. His ancestors migrated from the Faizabad district of UP and settled in Hyderabad. Raj belonged to the third generation (…)

- 2011

West Bengal — What Next?

Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy — 2011-05-24T17:22:17Z

The following is a piece written by S. Sudhakar Reddy, the CPI's Deputy General Secretary, in response to the Mainstream editor's request to pen down what he expects from the Trinamul Congress-Congress alliance that has just been elected to power in West Bengal under the leadership of TMC chief Mamata Banjerjee.
Now the elections are over in five States. The defeat of the Left in West Bengal is a big setback. Though it was expected that the Left could lose, still there is a great (…)

- 2011

Relevance of the Telangana Armed Struggle

Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy — 2010-09-28T10:53:07Z

The Telangana armed struggle against Nizam's autocracy in 1947 was an important historical event as Nizam declared Hyderabad as an independent country in connivance with British imperialism on September 11, 1947. The CPI had given a call asking the people to take up arms against the Nizam of Hyderabad Samsthan and for the merger of Hyderabad into the Indian Union. Comrades Ravi Narayan Reddy, Baddam Yella Reddy and Makhdoom Mohiuddin signed the statement on behalf of the CPI, Andhra (…)

- 2010