ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to discuss particular examples of the anti-Left Front propaganda of the mainstream commercial media houses. It analyses Ganashakti, the ‘daily organ of the Communist Party of India West Bengal State Committee’ as a reflection of some of the trajectories of change in the ideological and organisational attitudes and structures of the Communist Party of India (M) during this period. In Marxist ideology, the important role of party literature has been emphasised from the very beginning of the period of the organised left movements. The political campaigns through meeting, procession, poster, wall writing, exhibition, leflet and organisational exercise by millions of cadres of Left Parties should be mentioned as continuous communication to the people. One major controversy that has dogged the Left Front is what is known as the Bantala issue. The huge electoral mandate in 2006 in favour of the Left Front was interpreted as a vote for a new wave of industrialisation in the state.
