The new edition of the
Asian Marxist Review is about to come out and here we provide the Editorial
statement that concentrates mainly on the situation in India.
The Economic and Political Weekly, the most academic magazine in India, has published a review of Lal Khan's book, "Partition - can it be undone?", written by Ranabir Samaddar. He gives a positive appraisal of the book and asks a pertinent question at the end: "But are the official communists listening to all these?"
West Bengal has been governed for many years by
the Left Front, whose main component is the CPI(M), one of India’s main
Communist Parties. Their past is one of support for Stalinism. Today the
leaders of this party have transferred their allegiance to so-called
“neo-liberal” capitalism, to the degree that they have actively organised
brutal attacks on peasants defending their land from being taken from them.
