Winds of dissent blowing across CPM’s forts in Kerala villages

Not even a fly will move here without the party’s permission” is how people used to describe the CPI(M)’s total dominance over the dozens of “party villages” in Kannur and Kozhikode districts till recently. But winds of dissent are now blowing through these impregnable fortresses of Marxist authority in the context of the recent murders of party “enemies”. Protests against the authoritarian rule of the bosses of the party in Kannur, known as Kerala’s headquarters of the murderous Marxist politics, has always been there in these villages but the people were scared of even thinking about airing it publicly so far, thanks to the kind of brutality the party’s killer gangs have been showing to “betrayers”.

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