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Sea of red supporters bid final goodbye to departed ex-Bengal CM and Marxist icon Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee

Kolkata/IBNS: Former West Bengal Chief Minister and Marxist icon Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's last journey was on Friday marked by a massive march of thousands of his followers, Communist supporters and Left-leading personalities in a show of respect to their leader, who passed away yesterday at age 80 after a prolonged illness.

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee: The life and time of a Red Romantic

“Patria o muerte” (Homeland or Nothing)! This is how Ernesto Che Guevara had ended his historic address (in Spanish) before the 19th United Nations (UN) General Assembly in December, 1964. The non-negotiable willingness to defend its sovereignty, the Argentine guerrilla leader had shaken the world with a romantic resolve, as the then Industry Minister of Cuba.

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee: A 'capitalist communist', poet and face of Bengal's fractured industrialisation

Former West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, whose bold attempts at economic reforms in the decades-long rule of the communists in the state saw their ouster over farmers' protests, died on Thursday at age 80, ending one of the illustrious yet politically incomplete journeys of a reformist Marxist in India.