Cpm Kozhikode

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  CPM Leader Used Mini Cooper For Yatra. BJP Says It Belongs To 'Smuggler'

  A top Kerala CPM leader has blundered into a controversy, travelling in a flashy Mini Cooper through the streets of Koduvally in Kozhikode district for the ruling party's roadshow to expose the BJP government's "anti-people" policies.

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  3 RSS Activists Attacked In Kerala Allegedly By Left Front Member

  Three activists of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh have been hacked in rural Kozhikode, allegedly by a group of CPM activists, and have been hospitalised. One of them has been seriously injured said the doctors at the Government Medical College. The injured men have been identified as Sudheesh, Bineesh and Rahul -- all in their early twenties.

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  In Kerala's Cycle Of Political Violence, Left Worker Attacked, BJP Office Bombed

  In a fresh round of political violence in Kerala, a CPM youth activist was attacked with sharp weapons in Palakkad on Thursday. 30-year-old Ratheesh and his friend are in hospital. Ratheesh has named three BJP activists in his complaint to the police.

• Chandrasekharan murder case: 3 CPM leaders given life term by Kerala court

  Eleven people, including three CPM leaders, were today given life term by a Kerala court in connection with the murder of TP Chandrasekharan. Mr Chandrasekharan was hacked to death in May, 2012. He was the president of the Revolutionary Marxist Party or RMP in CPI(M) stronghold of Onchiyam in Kozhikode after he was expelled from CPI(M).

• Chandrasekharan murder case: Three CPM leaders among 12 found guilty

  Twelve people, including three CPM leaders, have been found guilty in the murder case of Revolutionary Marxist Party (RMP) leader TP Chandrasekharan.

• Murdered former Kerala CPM leader's widow receives 'threatening letters'

  The widow of Revolutionary Marxist Party leader TP Chandrasekharan today alleged she had received two anonymous letters threatening her and her family and these would be handed over to police.

• Man held near CPM leader Pinarayi Vijayan's house with air gun, sword

  A septuagenarian found moving about in a suspicious manner with an air gun and sword near the residence of Kerala CPI(M) secretary Pinarayi Vijayan here has been taken into custody, police said today.

• CPM activist, 4 others arrested for Chandrashekaran's murder

  Kerala Police have arrested five people, including a CPM activist for their alleged involvement in the murder of a former party leader in north Kerala. TP Chandrashekaran, who quit the CPM a few years ago and launched an outfit called the Revolutionary Marxist Party, was murdered in Kozhikode on May 4.

• Former Communist Party of India (Marxist) activist hacked to death

  Revolutionary Marxist Party leader T P Chandrasekharan, who was expelled from the CPM in 2009, was hacked to death by unidentified assailants at Vadakara in Kozhikode district late last night. Police say 52-year-old Chandrasekharan was attacked at around 10.15 PM on Friday. The assailants, who came in a car, hurled country-made bombs at Chandrashe...

• At CPM brainstorming session, a dearth of ideas

  There are two days left of the CPM congress at Kozhikode. But a section of delegates are disappointed that no clear direction is being provided by the party leadership. And a senior leader contradicting themselves, has not helped either. On the penultimate day of the party congress today, the CPM will discuss the political organisational report. ...

• CPM to 'Ekla Chalo Re'

  At the end of three days of deliberations at Kozhikode, the CPM seems to have made up its mind and has decided to 'ekla chalo re' or go it alone. The party on Friday adopted the review report and political resolution presented by general secretary Prakash Karat, seeking to forge a Left democratic alternative against the 'neo-liberal' policies of C...

• Sexual harassment, alcoholism cited in CPM report of weaknesses

  As if a shrinking presence in the country was not bad enough, the CPM is also having to confront party cadres who are not toeing the party line on a host of issues.

• Third term for Prakash Karat

  The 20th party congress of the CPM that began in Kozhikode on 4th April is all set to re-elect Prakash Karat as the party's secretary for the third term. But his third term would also be his last as the congress is also likely to vote in an amendment that limits the term of all party secretaries -- from general secretary to local committee secreta...

• Balloons, fish curry at CPM's brainstorming session

  It was in Kozhikode that in 1937, EMS Namboodiripad and a handful of others formed the first Communist cell in Kerala. Much before that, 500 years ago, Portugal's Vasco da Gama landed at a beach near the city. The Portugese colonised Kozhikode, but didn't have an easy time with the King of Calicut -- another name for Kozhikode -- giving the colonis...

• CPM calls for building Left-democratic alternative at party Congress

  Charging the Congress and BJP with harming the country's interests by pushing neo-liberal policies, the 20th CPM party Congress began in Kozhikode today with a call to build an alternative of Left and democratic forces to address the problems being faced by the country and people.