Vol. L No. 05 February 01, 2026

Defeat the Corporate-Communal Onslaught!

THE working class of India has once again sounded the bugle of resistance. The Central Trade Unions (CTUs) have collectively called for a nation-wide General Strike on February 12; the eighth major one since the BJP came to office in 2014. With the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) and agricultural workers’...
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Assam on the eve of Assembly Election

ALONG with Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Puducherry, Assam is going to Assembly poll in March-April this year. The ruling BJP-led front is seeking its third term. On the other side, the anti-BJP forces are gearing up to unseat the ruling parties this time. As the election draws closer, the BJP government is announcing an array of new schemes to expand the net of beneficiaries. The target of BJP-led government is to entice the beneficiaries with the coming...

AI and the Case for Socialism

AT the recently concluded summit at Davos where the rich and powerful of the world had gathered for their annual jamboree, there was much excitement about Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI of course is not yet so profitable as to be introduced widely, but the capitalists and their backers gathered at Davos believed that the corner would be turned very soon.

New Rafale Deal: Almost Done, Some Questions

IT has been reported that the Defence Procurement Board headed by the Defence Secretary has approved the Indian Air Force’s (IAF) proposal to acquire 114 Rafale fighter jets from Dassault of France under the Multi Role Fighter Aircraft (MRFA) tender. The deal now awaits clearance from the Defence Acquisition Council headed by the Defence Minister, and finally from the Cabinet Committee on Security headed by the Prime Minister, which will...

Oppose the India-EU Free Trade Agreement

THE Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) opposes the India-EU Free Trade Agreement (FTA) signed today. This agreement represents a wholesale surrender of India’s economic interests to the European Union. Under the terms of the deal, India will eliminate or drastically reduce tariffs on over 90 per cent of goods imported from the EU. These include automobiles (reduced from 110 to 40 per cent), iron and steel (22 to 0 per cent),...

In BJP’s Ramrajya of Madhya Pradesh, Poison in the Name of Water

THE spate of deaths due to consumption of contaminated water in Bhagirathpura in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, continues unabated. The death toll has reached 27, with two more deaths reported. News has also emerged from Dr. Ambedkar Nagar -- the headquarters of Mhow tehsil in Indore district -- that jaundice has been spreading rapidly there due to the mixing of the borewell water line with the sewage line. So far,...

CITU Andaman & Nicobar State Conference Resolves To Fight Anti-Working Class Labour Codes

The two-day 10th Andaman & Nicobar State Conference held at Port Blair (Sri Vijaya Puram) on December 20-21, 2025, decided to join the nation-wide agitation against the four anti-working class labour codes. A resolution in this connection was passed in the Delegate Session of the Conference on 21st December, 2025. The two-day conference began with a...

The Rupture Within the Global North

MARK Carney is not the person you would expect to deliver the message from within the Global North that their conspiracy to rule the world has ended. The Global North, the Collective West, whatever you want to call it, had formed into a decisive military and political bloc after World War II, which effectively ended the divisions within the Global North and gradually brought all its pieces into a line with the United States at its head.

Crony ‘Haircuts’ for Crony Capitalists

The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) came into effect on May 28, 2016, with the President's assent. It was introduced in Parliament as a framework to resolve insolvency proceedings between corporate giants and individuals within a specific timeframe. In 2025, certain amendments to this code were introduced and passed. Under the IBC, if a company goes bankrupt and a resolution is not possible, there are clear procedures to sell the...

Class Struggle in the Era of Fragmentation of Production Process & Precariousness of Jobs

Fragmentation and segmentation of the production process and scattering of global production locations have brought before class-oriented trade union movement dimensional challenges. The Global South has become intermediate manufacturing or assembling hubs as these being the global hunting ground for extreme exploitation of labour. But brand value addition is...

Anusuya Is a Fighter Today

ANUSUYA… she is a postgraduate. She belongs to a Scheduled Caste community at Udayarpalayam, a small hamlet in, Ariyalur district. Subash… he too is a postgraduate. He was born into a Backward Caste community in Arunagiri village, Uthangarai, Krishnagiri district. Both Subash’s and Anusuya’s families had migrated to the industrial town of Tiruppur after failing to find employment in their native villages. Their residences in Tiruppur were close to each other.

Polit Bureau Statements

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statements

 

Condemn BJP Government’s Disgraceful Position on Venezuela