
Kerala: The Crises within the CPI(M)
From a sheer power struggle to a non-ideological factional feud, the crisis in the Kerala state unit of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) is bringing out all the contradictions within the party that lay dormant in the last period.
Factionalism
Not so long after the SNC Lavalin controversy{{1}}, the Kerala unit of the Communist party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), has recently witnessed a new low in their long running factional struggle after the cold blooded, political murder of the former CPI(M) party dissenter and the founder leader of Revolutionary Marxist Party (RMP) – T P Chandrasekharan, allegedly by CPI(M) goons.