Immortal Technique: Poverty of Philosophy

CMKP Salutes Harkishan Singh Surjeet

Comrade Prakash Karat,
General Secretary,
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Dear Comrade,
The passing away of Comrade Harkishan Singh Surjeet, former CPI (M) General Secretary and member Polit Bureau (until his death) is not only a loss of your party but it has deprived actually the subcontinent of one of the veterans of national liberation movement, anti-feudal and anti-communal [...]

Homage to Harkishan Singh Surjeet

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) records with profound grief the passing away of Comrade Harkishan Singh Surjeet, veteran leader of the CPI(M), an outstanding figure of the Communist movement of the country and prominent national politician. He died after a prolonged illness on August 1, 2008. He was 93 [...]

Complete Unity over Fighting the Doctrine of HATE

The recent military operations by Frontier Corps (FC) on the religious extremist groups around Peshawar led to a series of debates and discussion amongst the CMKP members regarding the position to be adopted on the question of Taliban and religious-extremists. The conclusion of the debate has been summarised by Ali Jan that is being presented [...]

Ethel and Julius Rosenberg

The following news item caught my attention lately due to the reference to Ethel and Julius Rosenberg:
The Cuban and the US flags fluttered together on June 19 by a monument dedicated to Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, who were unjustly executed 55 years ago by fascist forces in the United States.
The vice-president of the Cuban Friendship [...]

The role of revolutionary literature on the Maoist Victory

- Florentino A. Iniego, JR
Another way of understanding the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist’s victory is to study its revolutionary literature. As a researcher from the Philippines, I have been struggling to learn the Nepali language to grasp the poems and songs of the Maoist movement. For months of exposure, interaction, and reading translations of works [...]

CMKP Condemns Failure to Restore Judiciary

It has now become blatantly clear that Zardari has completely failed the democratic movement. In exchange for the NRO, Zardari has agreed not to restore the pre-November 3nd judiciary and has de facto accepted General Pervaiz Musharraf as the President of Pakistan. This is a complete betrayal of the struggle against military rule that so [...]

Celebrating Jalib: Main Nay Kaha

“Main Nay Kaha” is a satirical poem by the famous leftist poet Habib Jalib called “Musheer” (Advisor). Jalib wrote it in response to a conversation he had with Hafiz Jalandari during the time of Ayub Khan’s dictatorship. It remains just as fresh and valid today.
This poem has been put to music by Laal (Shahram Azhar [...]