A CPI(M) delegation led by General Secretary M A Baby met workers in Noida who had been arrested during the Noida workers’ movement and were released on bail after spending nearly a month in jail. These victimized workers have also been dismissed from their jobs.

The workers told the delegation that they were subjected to physical assault in police custody, framed with fabricated evidence, and booked under multiple charges in an attempt to crush their movement.

THE dreaded political apparatus known colloquially as “bulldozer justice” — the extrajudicial demolition of property via executive fiat — has officially arrived in West Bengal. For years, political observers watched the deployment of heavy earthmoving machinery as a tool of state intimidation across BJP-ruled northern and central India, often dismissing it as a phenomenon entirely alien to the unique socio-political fabric of Bengal. That illusion has now been completely shattered.

Resolution on Cuba

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), which is meeting from 22-24 May in HKS Surjeet Bhawan, New Delhi, has unanimously adopted the following resolution against US threats to Cuba:

Cuba Is Not Alone – US Should Back Off From Cuba

“Throw the anti-worker labour codes into the Arabian Sea!”

THE West Asian war has pushed world oil prices well beyond $100 per barrel. The Indian government, which had kept domestic prices of oil products unchanged until the elections to several state legislatures had been completed, has now started raising their prices; it has already raised prices in three rounds and is no doubt going to raise them further. And a large number of economists, not all belonging to the Bhartiya Janata Party stable, have seen such “passing on” of higher world oil prices to domestic consumers as the obvious and natural thing to do.