For the first time since 1977, our Party heads no state government. The Assembly elections have dealt us serious setbacks in Keralam and in West Bengal, the BJP has won on a communal and divisive campaign. Since 1991, the ideological offensive against us has been continuously parroting that socialism is dead. Our reply in this condition must be to boldly present the socialist alternative which is rooted in the actual aspirations of the Indian people and in the actual crisis of the capitalist order.

ON October 21, 2026, news regarding a data leak at the State Bank of India (SBI) came to light. A few days prior to this, reports emerged regarding unauthorised transactions associated with the RTGS system of the Central Bank of India between October 15 and 17. Months before that, in July 2026, a data security breach at the Bank of Baroda had also made news.

TO understand the imperialism of our time and the ongoing anti-imperialist struggles, it is necessary to trace their origins back to the Russian Revolution of 1917. The October Revolution was the first anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist revolution in the world. Lenin had set out his theory of imperialism in 1916, arguing that imperialism is driven by the need of capitalist powers to find new markets, secure access to resources and identify new avenues for exporting capital. This process generates rivalry, conflict and global exploitation.

IN his foundational critiques of political economy, Karl Marx laid bare the essential dialectic of human existence. Mankind does not merely exist as an abstract biological entity. We actively produce, refashion, and discover our own nature through conscious, physical interaction with the material world. Labour, in its unalienated essence, is a creative process whereby sensory experience, trial, error, emotional friction, and reflective contemplation give birth to genuine human consciousness.

DEFENCE Minister Shri Rajnath Singh recently wrote an article in TOI which began with the line that truth is the first casualty of war. Singh’s thesis, as I read it, is that criticism of the Election Commission is manufactured, that the Supreme Court has blessed the Commission’s conduct, and that street protest against it is a step towards anarchy. His article on “post-truth politics” does not even mention the one document that has made post-truth an inadequate word for what is happening inside the Election Commission of India.