On March 14 up to 100 peasants in
Nandigram, West Bengal, were brutally
massacred by the police as they protested against land-grabbing operations. The
leaders of the CPI-M in the local government have justified this action as part
of their so-called “development modelâ€. The contradictions between the leaders
of the Indian communist movement and the millions of workers who support them
are posed here sharply.
On March 31 the
Nepalese Maoists joined a coalition government with bourgeois parties. From
armed struggle they have gone to ministerial portfolios. Now the masses will be
expecting something concrete for themselves, real economic and social
improvement. But will this be possible in such a Popular Front coalition?
Jam Saqi, is the former general secretary of the Communist Party of Pakistan. He has joined The Struggle, the Marxist tendency in Pakistan. In this interview he explains how he became active and finally came to understand the limitations of Stalinism. He invites all genuine revolutionary workers and youth on the South Asian subcontinent to join the International Marxist Tendency and struggle for socialist revolution.