Mr Charu Mazumdar, leader and chief theoretician of the CP(M-L), and his close associates know only too well that there is not a single instance in the post-war period where guerillas have seized power merely on the strength of their communist or socialist ideology. All independent communist revolutions since 1945 … Read More
The Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) has attracted a lot of publicity by attacking the Gandhi centre at Jadavpur University and by burning a tram and two buses in Calcutta on the eve of its first anniversary on April 22. Its activists, popularly known as Naxalites, have shown a striking capacity for … Read More
The political situation in southeast Asia has been highly unstable for almost three decades. But seldom has uncertainty about the future been so great as it is now. The outcome of the war in Viet Nam holds the key to future developments in the region. But it cannot be divorced … Read More
A commentator has interpreted the annual report of the Ministry of External Affairs to suggest that “the Indian Government would like to see the British and American forces in Asia replaced by a Soviet presence.” This interpretation does not tally with New Delhi’s policy of non-alignment and credits the Government … Read More
Irrespective of what the West Germans say, the historic summit meeting between Mr. Brandt and Mr. Stoph has set in motion a chain of events which will eventually lead to the recognition of East Germany as a sovereign State by the Federal Republic. The process will not be smooth or … Read More
The impact of socialist and liberal ideologies has been so great on the Indian intelligentsia that its members interpret political developments in the country largely in western terms. Once in a while a political scientist or sociologist speaks of the importance of caste as a factor in Indian politics. But … Read More
It is being seriously argued in the West that if the United States had not overreacted to the North Korean attack on South Korea in 1950 first to extend protection to the KMT regime in Formosa and then to cross the 38th Parallel, Russia and China would have fallen out … Read More
No one side of a triangle can be bigger than the sum of the other two. This about sums up the dilemma of the Soviet Union and China in dealing with the United States. Moscow and Peking have been accusing each other of colluding with American “imperialists.” In both cases … Read More
In a survey of the international scene at the governors’ conference last week-end, Mr Dinesh Singh is reported to have said that in view of the growing detente between the two super-powers and their parallel policies towards the Indo-Pakistan sub-continent, the policy of non-alignment has to “move to the next … Read More
In a survey of the international scene at the Governors’ conference last week-end Mr Dinesh Singh is reported to have said that in view of the growing ‘detente’ between the two superpowers and their parallel policies towards the Indo-Pakistan sub-continent, the policy of non-alignment has to “move to the next … Read More
