If the CPM decides, they will execute it. No police protection can help. It can happen anytime.” T P Chandrasekharan, the rebel CPM leader who had floated a breakaway outfit, knew what it meant to break ranks. On May 4, he was hacked to death in the party bastion of Onchiyam, Kozhikode, in north Kerala. A few days after his murder, senior CPM leader M M Mani boasted about how the party had dealt with political enemies in the past...