M A Baby, General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has written a letter to the Hon’ble President of India on October 20, 2026, seeking intervention for the withdrawal of the amendments to the Census rules.
ON October 6, 2026, OpenAI put out a document announcing new solutions to longstanding mathematical problems proved by an Artificial Intelligence (AI) model. In itself, this was not surprising, since the last few months have witnessed a series of new and exciting results in mathematics proved by some AI model or the other. Yet, the October 6 announcement turned out to be a different category altogether: some would describe it as a bombshell,...
THE political crisis of the current government -- originating out of a legitimacy deficit due to the exposure of the hijacking of the electoral process through its cronies -- is likely to be followed by a simmering economic crisis. The fact that the cost of living is going to rise in the coming days has also been indicated by the people in power. The central government, while facing numerous challenges to retaining power with...
A FESTIVAL belongs fundamentally to the working masses who build it, animate it, and sustain its collective social life. In Bengal, the autumn festival has historically represented a broad, democratic commons—a popular cultural space where neighbourhood solidarity, working-class labour, and progressive intellectual inquiry have consistently pushed back against feudal patronage and bureaucratic control....
SO, a decision has finally been reached! The Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI), established to drive India's industrial growth and economic foundation, is now slipping completely out of Indian hands and into the control of foreign capital. If implemented, the decision approved by the Union Cabinet on October 14, 2026, will place this institution, which holds a pivotal place in India's economic development...
THE continuous push for militarisation is an attempt of capitalism as a system to overcome its crisis, for which it creates wars in one or the other way. The current phase of crisis being a systemic crisis of capitalism warrants it to be in continuous war as witnessed at present. This inevitably leads to soaring of militarisation expenses as against a lag in developmental expenses. Recent reports vindicate it and reveal the barbaric nature of...
THE war around Bab al-Mandab (the doorway to the Suez Canal) has brought into sharp focus the instability of the regional order in West Asia. Saudi Arabia has renewed its military campaign in Yemen, while Ansar Allah has intensified attacks on Saudi airports and energy installations. The tensions between Saudi Arabia and Yemen go back over a decade, with no end in sight through diplomacy (now foreclosed) or through warfare. At the early...
ON October 17, 2026, at short notice, more than a hundred women belonging to various women’s organisations like AIDWA, NFIW, AIPWA, AIMSS, All India Feminist Alliance (ALIFA), AICCWW, Pragatisheel M S, Purogami M S, PMEK, ICWM, Collective, Saheli, SFI, KYS, CSW and Anhad assembled near the Bangla Sahib Gurudwara and marched to the Delhi Police Headquarters condemning the...
THE 24th Maharashtra State Conference of the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) was held with great enthusiasm in Kolhapur city onOctober 6-8, 2026. This was the first-ever state conference of the Kisan Sabha to be held in Kolhapur district in the sugar belt of Western Maharashtra. The conference was held as the AIKS marked the...
Attaching the relevant extracts from the Supreme Court’s judgement, the following queries were posed to the ECI: “1) The total number of cases referred by the Election Commission of India (ECI) to the competent authority under the Citizenship Act, 1955 till date, for the purpose of adjudication of citizenship of persons whose names have been deleted...
Polit Bureau StatementsCPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statements
Condemn BJP Government’s Disgraceful Position on Venezuela |
