Mainstream Weekly

The War is Waged in The Parliament, Not in Wayanad — CPI's Opposition to Priyanka Gandhi's Candidature is Foolish | Ajayakumar Kodoth

Ajayakumar Kodoth — 2024-06-21T22:17:00Z

Priyanka Gandhi is coming to Wayanad for a political contest, as Rahul Gandhi makes way for her. An appropriate decision, whichever way you look at it. Not that there are no eligible candidates in Kerala. But a strong opposition needs to be mounted by the Congress in the Parliament against the Fascist organization called the BJP. It is imperative that an eligible leader who is now outside the Parliament enters it in order to serve the interests of secular democracy in India in the (…)

- 2024

The Disastrous Split and the Challenges Ahead | Ajayakumar Kodoth

Ajayakumar Kodoth — 2024-04-20T10:44:07Z

April 2024 marks the 60th year of the CPI split in India
Sixty years have gone by since the Communist Party of India got split right down the middle. Following the Emergency, although the mainstream Communist parties – the CPI and the CPI (M) – have been working jointly as the Left Front at the national level since 1978, they have remained as separate entities. The prevailing notion is that the time for a merger has not yet come because of ideological differences! In the first general (…)

- 2024

Will The Indian Communist Leadership Read Dimitrov? A Reminder to Comrades Sitaram Yechury and D. Raja | Ajayakumar Kodoth

Ajayakumar Kodoth — 2022-05-06T21:54:56Z

by Dr Ajayakumar Kodoth *
“Only by a united struggle, carried on step by step, day by day, only by tirelessly extending the anti-fascist movement of the masses and thoroughly strengthening the people's front will the working people in town and country cut the claws of fascist beast and carry the struggle against fascism to a victorious conclusion.” – Georgi Dimitrov
These words were written by Georgi Dimitrov (1882-1949), the Bulgarian Communist leader and General Secretary of the (…)

- 2022

The CPI And Kanhaiya Kumar's Departure | Ajayakumar Kodoth

Ajayakumar Kodoth — 2021-10-08T14:56:09Z

by Dr Ajayakumar Kodoth
No young leader has succeeded in enthusing or attracting the youth in their anti-imperialist and anti-Fascist ideology and struggles in India quite as much as Kanhaiya Kumar has in recent times. Against the backdrop of the steady petering out of the Communist Party of India (CPI) in Indian politics in the past couple of decades, his entry into the national mainstream was evaluated as an unexpected political windfall for the party. It is an incontestable fact that (…)

- 2021

The Paths of the CPI and the CPI-M are Divergent

Ajayakumar Kodoth — 2018-04-22T12:16:04Z

by Ajayakumar Kodoth
The Party Congresses of the CPI and CPI-M are currently taking place in South India. This article is being published in that context.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's speech in Parliament in reply to the President's policy statement, had a ring of hauteur to it. His hatred towards the Congress Party was as undisguised as ever. What this points to is a fascist tendency to twist historical truths in order to establish counterfactuals. The danger and threat lurking behind (…)

- 2018

Ignore Prof Bipan Chandra's Forewarnings . . . At Our Own Peril

Ajayakumar Kodoth — 2017-02-27T07:18:03Z

by Ajayakumar Kodoth
“I wish to see India exist as a nation-state, a strong nation-state. But the rise of certain social and political forces with narrow policies is a threat to our national integrity. Take communal powers, for instance. There is no doubt that as a political party, the BJP stands for national unity. But theirs is a brand of extreme nationalism. Their communal policies will weaken India. I fear that if the BJP happens to remain in power for ten years, India will get (…)

- 2017

Rome was Not Built in a Day. Nor the Hindu Rashtra . . .

Ajayakumar Kodoth — 2016-12-26T13:29:17Z

by Ajayakumar Kodoth
Even while judging the BJP government as a pro-Fascist one, the CPI believes that it cannot be called Fascist yet. We resort to this label not merely because of hostility towards BJP but because we believe it is true. Even while judging the BJP as completely right-wing, we cannot brand it as completely Fascist. That is why we say it is pro-Fascist. Whether it is completely so or on the way to becoming Fascist is an issue that should be left to further discussion. As I (…)

- 2016

The C. Achutha Menon Government: An Effective Template Against Fascism?

Ajayakumar Kodoth — 2015-10-24T10:28:22Z

October 2015 marks the 45th anniversary of the first Congress-Communist Minstry headed by C. Achutha Menon. In the wake of the communal onslaught on all walks of life, a critical re-assessement of the aforementioned Ministry's noteworthy achievements, as presented in the following article, offers an effective template against fascism.
by Ajayakumar Kodoth
We are just a year shy of the twentyfifth death anniversary of C. Achutha Menon (1913-1991), one of the most respected and best loved (…)

- 2015

Whither Communist Party?

Ajayakumar Kodoth — 2015-03-30T08:57:00Z

The 22nd Congress of the CPI has begun on March 25 at Puducherry. The following article was intended to be published before the Congress but reached us late. It is thus being published now. More articles on the Left will be carried in subsequent issues.
by Ajayakumar Kodoth
“It must be remembered that the general principles underlying the Communist doctrine, that is, the economic principles of social organisation, have been accepted by some of the best minds of the age, and it does not (…)

- 2015