West Bengal

Plenum Preparations

The details of the Organisational Plenum have been finalized.  Plenum will be held from December 27 to 31, 2015 at Kolkata.  It will be attended by 436 delegates.  There will be a Report on Party Organization and a Resolution which will be adopted at the Plenum.

Protest Kolkata Lathichage

 The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) condemns the brutal lathicharge on peaceful protesters in Kolkata on October 1. The Kolkata Left Front had organized a march to the Kolkata Police Headquarters at Lalbazar protesting against the deteriorating law and order in the city, police atrocities against Left Front workers and the hooliganism indulged in by the Trinamul Congress.

Political Repression in West Bengal Today

The Left movement in West Bengal – the most powerful contingent of the Left movement in India – today faces intense repression by the State Government led by the Trinamul Congress (TMC) and by the ruling classes in general. Surya Kanta Mishra, member of the Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), holds the two crucial positions of Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly and and Secretary of the State Committee of the CPI(M). Dr Mishra gave this interview on the state of political repression in West Bengal....