Thomas Issac
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Thomas Issac (born 1952, Kottapuram near Kodungalloor, India) is a secretariat member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), and represents Marikkulam in the Kerala state legislative council. He is the main architect of the People's Plan movement in Kerala. He is presently the finance minister of Kerala
The son of T.P. Mathew and Saramma Mathew, he obtained a PhD in Economics. While a student, he became involved with political life, he became involved with the Students Federation of India (SFI), an organisation which is politically linked with the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He has held posts in the SFI at college, district and state level, and is currently president of the SFI State Committee.
He has been a professor at the Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum and has published a number of articles and books. He is married to Nata Duvvury and has two daughters.
[edit] Books
- The Withering Coconut (1985)
- Political Economy of Poverty (1985)
- Economics Crisis in the Capitalist World (1987)
- ABC of Political Economy (1987)
- The World Bank and IMF (1988)
- Kerala: Land and Man (1998) [Won Kerala Sahitya Academy Award]
- Science and Social Revolution (1989)
- Political Economy of Surrender (1992)
- Peoples Planning: Theory and Practice (1998)
- Peoples Planning: Questions and Answers (1998)
- Modernisation and Employment : The Coir Industry in Kerala (with R.A. Van Stuijvenberg and K.N. Nair)
- Local Democracy and Development: Peoples Campaign for Decentralised Planning in Kerala (with Richard W. Franke).
