The World Bank’s Flawed Poverty Estimates

THE World Bank has just come out with estimates of poverty in India which show that “extreme poverty” which afflicted 27.1 percent of the total population in 2011, now afflicts only 2.6 percent. Its estimate is based on the National Sample Survey data on consumption expenditure collected over the period 2022-23 and 2023-24.

Socialism in Indian Conditions: The Road We Must Walk

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.

‘Regime Change’ is Not a Bad Word in Democracy!

EUROPE is experiencing popular unrest one country after another.

The Needle Moves, but the Struggle Continues

EUROPE’S streets remain aflame with a population angry about how their war economies have utterly ignored their own people. Across the Atlantic, a fierce mobilisation in Brazil and the United States produced election results that favour the good side of history, without their own potential being exaggerated.

Ken-Betwa River Linking: Delegation Led by Brinda Karat Visits Affected People

“IS demanding justice a crime?” Rani, an Adivasi affected by the Ken-Betwa River Linking Project, asks a delegation led by senior CPI(M) leader Brinda Karat. On October 26 and 27, Karat visited the people affected by the project to express solidarity with their struggle. It is noteworthy that 4,141 hectares of land are coming under the submergence zone, of which 1,314 hectares belong to the buffer zone of the Panna Tiger Reserve.

Mid-Day Meal Workers Protest Wage Cuts Across Himachal

On the call of the state committee of the Mid-Day Meal Workers Union, affiliated with CITU, mid-day meal (MDM) workers staged protests across several districts of Himachal Pradesh on October 30, 2026, against the government's decision to distribute 10 months' wages over 12 months and its failure to address their long-pending demands. Memorandums highlighting their demands were submitted to the Director of School Education through departmental authorities in various places.

Tripura: BJP Grabs 77 Seats Unopposed Through Intimidation and Violence in Civic Polls

The BJP has forcibly captured 77 seats in elections to 21 urban local bodies in Tripura by creating an atmosphere of terror through intimidation, armed threats, attacks on houses and the use of muscle power. As a result, elections scheduled for November 27 will be held in only 268 of the total 345 seats. The final figures released by the State Election Commission on November 10, the last date for withdrawal of nominations, reveal the extent of the ruling party's attempt to subvert the democratic process.

Maha: AIDWA’s Struggle of Excluded ‘Ladli Behnas’: 19,000 Women join District Conventions

The BJP-led NDA in Maharashtra, despite (or because of!) its games of splitting up its two rival political parties – Shiv Sena and NCP – and buying up many of their leaders, MLAs and MPs, suffered a big defeat in the Lok Sabha elections of May 2024, winning only 17 seats out of 48, the remaining 31 seats being won by the INDIA Bloc. Farmers, workers, women and youth were all deeply disgruntled with the BJP-led central and state government as none of their grievances were being addressed. Inflation and unemployment showed no signs of abating.

A Fresh Wind Is Blowing

THE overall atmosphere of gloom that characterised the last more than three decades is giving way to a fresh breath of air. This encapsulates Dickens’ famous description, ‘It is the worst of times, it is the best of times. It is the winter of discontent; it is the spring of hope.’

‘We Will Continue to Fight!’ – Meet the Girl Activists Fighting Against SIR

The struggle against Special Intensive Revision (SIR) has brought to the forefront not only questions concerning people's democratic and constitutional rights, but also the disturbing experiences of intimidation, harassment and abuse faced by those who have come forward to resist it.

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