The Left Front is an alliance of four parties – the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the Communist Party of India, the All ...

West Bengal, Kerala and Tripura have had communist governments in the past. Here is a brief history of how they came to power ...

71-year-old Mariam Alexander Baby has taken charge of the CPI(M), India’s largest leftist party, amid its worst organizational crisis. The Communist Party of India (Marxist), better known as the CPI(M ...

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) is a key force fighting against Hindu nationalism and for social justice. Whatever its flaws, it deserves our solidarity. Last month, Jacobin published an ...

Church groups in southern Indian Kerala state have sought an apology from a top Communist party leader for allegedly denigrating the life of Catholic nuns. The Pastoral Council of Irinjalakuda diocese ...

For sheer hand-wringing distress at Red China’s aggression in the Himalayas, no other group in India can match the Communist Party. Muzzled by their political faith and unable to utter a wholehearted ...

India’s central government views the state of Kerala with suspicion and disdain. Politicians from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) often present it as an internal, ...

Christian leaders have slammed a communist politician in India's Kerala state after he mocked Catholic bishops for attending Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Christmas lunch while violence against ...