Massive Three-day Aakrosh Mahapadhav in Maharashtra

Over three days beginning 1^ST June, the CITU Maharashtra State Committee successfully conducted a mass dharna at the historic Azad Maidan in Mumbai to raise demands of workers of both organised and unorganised sectors.

Newsclick: A Courageous Voice for People’s Struggles

In a significant judgement that has implications for freedom of the press, the Delhi High Court has vindicated Prabir Purkayastha and Newsclick.

In a damning judgement, the High Court called the Delhi Police and Enforcement Directorate cases against Newsclick ‘mala fide’, an ‘arbitrary attack’ without ‘a whisper of any incriminating allegation’, which amounts to ‘a gross abuse of the process of law’.

Comrade Faizur Rahaman

Renowned left leader, former Member of the CPI(M) Tripura State Committee, and former Minister of the Left Front Government, Comrade Faizur Rahaman breathed his last in his residence at Ichai Lalchhari village of Dharmanagar Sub-Division, North Tripura on June 12. He had been suffering from cancer for several years. He was 75.

Hands off Raul Castro, hands off Cuba!

For centuries Cuba was a Spanish colony. During this period of subjugation, it fought bravely against colonialism and won its independence by fiercely fighting for its rights. The US President Donald Trump desperately wants to once again rob Cuba of its freedom and rule over it as a subjugated nation. The tightening of economic sanctions since he assumed office for the second time and the indictment of former Cuban President Raul Castro on May 20 are nothing short of declaration of its intention to occupy Cuba. The actual goal is to destroy socialist Cuba.

Labour Movement in NCR (North India): The Issue of Wage Increase: A Matter of Life and Death

THE storm of labour protests in April from Manesar, Haryana, to Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Uttarakhand, reached almost all the Hindi heartland states. Thousands of contract workers from Panipat, Baroni, and Mathura refineries, from major refineries, steel plants, power and cement plants across the country revolted, exposing the poor working conditions of workers and the need for wage increases.

Visakhapatnam Steel Plant Accident Caused by Negligence of Management

A MAJOR industrial tragedy struck the Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL) steel plant in Visakhapatnam on June 8 when an explosion triggered a massive fire and caused molten steel to spill inside the facility. RINL is the corporate entity of the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP). Eight workers were killed and six others sustained injuries in the accident, officials said. The blast occurred at around 4.40 pm when a ladle carrying molten steel exploded, leading to the spillage of hundreds of tonne of molten metal.

The Chimera of A Reformed Capitalism

PROGRESSIVE Liberals, and Social Democrats in general, have this common belief that capitalism can be “reformed” to become more humane and acceptable to society, and that this can be done by the use of state power which can be acquired through elections in a political democracy; this state of reformed capitalism can be institutionalized for ever, which makes any struggle for socialism unnecessary.

NFHS-6: Controlling Data to Control the Narrative

WHEN the Union Ministry of Health released the National Family Health Survey (NFHS)-6 fact sheets only in May 2026, based on data collected during 2023-24, the godi media headlines celebrated gains in child nutrition and maternal care. But public health experts soon asked: where had the data gone? Compared to NFHS-5 (2019-21), which had 131 key indicators, the latest fact sheet contains only 101.

Bulldozers at Midnight: Jadavpur Eviction and Resolute Resistance

IN the first week of June 2026, Jadavpur railway station, in the immediate vicinity of Jadavpur University, ceased to be merely a busy transport hub in south Kolkata. It mutated into ground zero for a tense confrontation over human livelihood, state coercion, and the right to the city. What the state apparatus justified as a routine “anti-encroachment” drive rapidly triggered a massive, cross-class resistance movement.

Prepare for Struggles against BJP Govt Policies: Raghavulu

CPI(M) Polit Bureau member B V Raghavulu called upon the people and Left parties to prepare for struggles and mass movements against what he described as the dangerous political developments taking place in the country under the policies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He was speaking at a meeting on “current political developments’ in Vijayawada on May 30.

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