THE Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), in a statement issued on August 4, has unequivocally condemned the brazen and disastrous mass retrenchment plan of India’s largest IT company, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), which is set to affect 2 per cent of its global workforce – over 12,000 employees across India. This sudden attack has been unleashed upon the workforce at a time when TCS reported consolidated revenue of Rs 2,55,324 crore for FY 2024–25 – a 6 per cent year-on-year growth – and the industry’s highest operating profit margin of 24.3 per cent.
ON behalf of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), General Secretary, M A Baby wrote a letter to Hemant Soren, chief minister of Jharkhand, on August 4, 2025, expressing condolences on the passing of his father and Jharkhand Mukti Morcha leader, Shri Shibu Soren.He wrote: "I am deeply saddened to hear of the passing of your esteemed father, Shri Shibu Soren ji.
THE 17th death anniversary of Comrade Harkishan Singh Surjeet, internationally renowned CPI(M) leader, former general secretary of the CPI(M), founder of the Baba Sohan Singh Bhakna Trust, and Punjabi daily Desh Sewak, was commemorated at Baba Sohan Singh Bhakna Bhawan in Chandigarh, on August 1.The meeting was presided over by Trust members Major Singh Bhikhiwind and Gurdarshan Singh Khaspur, with Bhup Chand Channo, CPI(M) state secretariat member, conducting the proceedings.Floral tributes were paid by Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami, Central Committee member of the CPI(M) and MLA from
The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement on August 7, 2025THE Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) opposes the decision of the Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir to ban 25 books. This censorship is yet another expression of authoritarianism and a brazen attack on the freedom of expression.The Lieutenant Governor, acting as a representative of the BJP-led Union government, is aggressively curtailing the fundamental rights guaranteed by the Indian Constitution.
The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement on August 7, 2025THE Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) strongly condemns the United States for imposing a 50 per cent tariff on Indian exports. This unilateral move is arbitrary, dictatorial and reflects the bullying tactics of the US administration.US President Donald Trump announced that a 25 per cent tariff would be imposed on Indian exports for not accepting all the demands made by the US during ongoing trade negotiations.
CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on August 4, 2025THE Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) strongly condemns the letter issued by the Delhi Police, which wrongly identifies Bengali language as ‘Bangladeshi language.’ This reflects a disturbing attitude within the Delhi Police, who have been arresting numerous Bengali-speaking individuals on suspicion of being illegal Bangladeshi immigrants.
MIGRATION is a flow of labour that reflects both a circuit of active labour and a circulation of reserve army of labour. Different regimes of accumulation and emerging growth poles define the nature of both circuit of capital and labour. ‘Footloose capital’ prefers ‘footloose labour’ as production structures are more dispersed and in a state of flux in the current regime of neoliberal globalisation. Such labour are workers on the move. They are like packets of labour power, undefined, docile and apparently without any political voice.
THOSE who are committed to believe in, and steadfastly practice India’s constitutional morality, are certainly ‘dismayed and disappointed’ over the Special NIA Court’s verdict acquitting all seven charge-sheeted in 2008 Malegaon bomb blast case. The verdict is symptomatic of the way criminal justice system is manipulated to serve the cause of the so-called Hindu rashtra.
BRINDA Karat, senior CPI(M) leader and former Rajya Sabha MP, has written to Union Minister for Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Bhupender Yadav, on August 6, demanding immediate intervention to halt the clearance granted by the Chhattisgarh Forest department to the Kente Extension Coal Project. The project, she warned, would lead to the destruction of 1,742 hectares of dense forest land in the Hasdeo Arand region.This project, which is part of the larger Hasdeo-Arand region coal project, was given to a Rajasthan government owned power utility.
THE Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Youth Federation (JKDYF) held its 5th one-day district conference at Kulgam on August 2. The presidium comprised Wahid Sultan Dar, Mohd. Abass Rather, Javed Iqbal Parrey, Sheeraz Ahmad Dar, Irshad Ahmad, and Imtiaz Ahmad Dar.
The JKDYF flag was unfurled by Wahid Sultan Bhat, state president.