TRIPURA: BJP’s Reign of Terror Continues Ahead of Civic Polls

The BJP’s campaign of intimidation and violence against opposition parties has intensified across Tripura ahead of the November 28 elections to 21 urban local bodies. CPI(M) candidates, leaders and supporters have faced repeated attacks, threats and obstruction while attempting to exercise their democratic right to file nominations.

The CEC Stands Impeached

GYANESH Kumar stands impeached. Though not legal, the symbolic public impeachment of India’s Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), organised by the INDIA bloc parties on October 31 in New Delhi, marks an unprecedented development in the country's struggle to protect democracy.

SIR in Bengal: The Disenfranchisement of the Working Poor

Capping Profiteering in Medicines: Is it enough?

In September 2026, a Bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta of the Supreme Court of India called a 10-fold markup on life-saving cancer drugs one of "carnage" and "extortion". They described the situation of a cancer drug with a price-to-retailer (PTR) cost of Rs. 2,700 being sold by drug manufacturers and retailers to cancer patients at Rs. 27,000—or ten times the price as "broad daylight dacoity" committed on vulnerable patients.

The Civil War in France

Students in the Paris suburbs came onto the streets merely to get teachers into their classrooms, to have enough desks for their classmates, and to have the state build school buildings fit for the educational experience. These suburbs, or banlieues, are the warehouses of France’s working poor, mainly non-white communities that had come to France from its colonies.

CPI(M) Condemns Government’s Move to Make Biometrics and Voter ID Compulsory for Welfare

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on Nov 4

THE Communist Party of India (Marxist) unequivocally condemns the Union government’s announcement, made by Minister of Panchayat Raj, Rajiv Ranjan Singh, to replace Aadhaar with biometrics and voter ID (EPIC) as the basis for welfare payments. This is a further assault on the rural poor.

Kolkata Marches for Books

AN elderly man, his hands trembling not in fear but in anguish, desperately held the arm of an agitated youth, entreating him with quiet dignity: “Please don’t destroy the books. Come here, have a look at them.” Indifferent to this humane appeal, the youth and his cohort brazenly tore down the display counter, hurling volumes into the dust of the road. These were not merely texts of Marx, Engels, and Lenin, but literary masterpieces of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, trampled underfoot in the dirt.

First They Burnt Books

“WHERE they burn books, they will ultimately burn people as well.”

We Will Not Rest

THE huge mass of humanity at the Ramlila Maidan on November 1, has sounded the bugle. The grounds which are more familiar to hosting the ceremonial Ravana Dahan as part of the Dussehra festival sounded a new tune for the dahan of the contemporary evil. This occasion was to express the resolve to extinguish the forces that are running berserk, wanting to snatch away one of the most crucial constitutional rights of the Indian people – the right to vote.

Sitaram Yechury Foundation

THE Sitaram Yechury Foundation (SYF), set up in memory of the late charismatic Communist leader, General Secretary of the CPI(M), parliamentarian and public intellectual Comrade Sitaram Yechury, is a not-for-profit charitable public Trust with the objectives of: initiating educational and public awareness on democracy and civil rights; agenda building in society for realization of constitutional provisions, including that to constitute India into a “socialist secular democratic republic” as adumbrated in the very preamble of the Constitution of India; sett

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