Ensure Ceasefire Sustains

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on October 11, 2025THE Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) welcomes the implementation of the first phase of the ‘peace deal’, whereby a ceasefire has come into place and which provides for the exchange of prisoners and hostages between Israel and Hamas.We have witnessed Israel’s violation of an earlier ceasefire agreement, and such breaches must not be allowed to recur.

Left Relief Teams Filling Void in North Bengal Disaster

Responding to the catastrophic flood and landslide devastation in North Bengal, the CPI(M) and allied Left mass organizations— SFI, DYFI and AIDWA—have launched an immediate and unified humanitarian mobilization across the state.

India-Pakistan Jingoist Power Play at Asia Cup Cricket

THE game of cricket has changed in the past fortnight or so, and for the worse. The cascading effects of what happened during the Asia Cup in Dubai are here: at the subsequent ICC Women’s World Cup in Sri Lanka, Indian cricket team players refrained from shaking hands or greeting the Pakistan players during their game on October 5. The women just mirrored their male counterparts' act of diluting the sanctity of cricket with jingoist fervour.

Homebound: A Tale of Cracked Heels and Hopes

IT’s been five years. The devastating images of migrant workers walking back to their villages to escape the COVID-19 crisis have been buried under the apathetic rhetoric of “Viksit Bharat.” The haunting images of homebound workers struggling to find food, transportation, shelter, medicine, oxygen cylinders, hospital beds, and even the dignity of a proper burial or cremation have slowly disappeared amid the ever-changing content in mainstream broadcast and social media.

Globalization Famines

ON October 11 in New Delhi Prime Minister Narendra Modi advised Indian farmers to grow more “export-oriented crops”. This amounted to saying that Indian farmers should move away from growing foodgrains, and the country should import foodgrains instead. This is precisely the advice that institutions like the World Bank, and Indian economists who generally echo its positions, have been giving for some time; and it is what the imperialist countries have been demanding.

No Fig Leaf to Salvage Credibility of the Constitutional Body

SHOCKING as it may sound, the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) initiated in Bihar by the Election Commission of India (ECI), when seen contextually, would actually unravel graver implications which have now come out in the open. When the process was initiated on June 25, within a few days it became obvious that the exercise was aimed far beyond the scope of purifying the electoral rolls.Three special features of the exercise stood out. Firstly, the exercise would put the burden of proof on the citizen to prove that he/she is a legitimate voter to appear in the electoral rolls.

Caste Discrimination Leads to Suicide by Top Police Officer

People across the country continue to be spellbound and gripped by shock since October 7, the fateful day a senior Haryana IPS officer Y. Puran Kumar ended his life at his Chandigarh residence. He would not have taken this step had the top bureaucracy listened to his complaints pertaining to the unending caste discrimination meted out to him by his seniors.

CITU Condemns Dismissal of Gramin Dak Sevak Union General Secretary

Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) has condemned the dismissal of S. S.

The US-China Trade War: From Chips to Rare Earths

THE decoupling of the world’s major economies is now gathering pace.

Baby Writes to Modi: Order judicial enquiry

A DELEGATION of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), led by the General Secretary, M A Baby visited the bereaved family members of Y Puran Kumar, IPS (ADGP, Haryana), who died by suicide. After the visit, M A Baby, wrote a letter to Shri Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India, demanding a judicial enquiry into the suicide of Y Puran Kumar, IPS (ADGP, Haryana).

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