The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement on June 19, 2026

THE Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) notes with optimism the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between Iran and the United States of America (USA). This is expected to bring much-needed relief to people across the globe, who have been severely affected by the unwarranted US-Israel aggression against Iran.

On 19th June 2026, major trade unions of Mumbai held a militant joint demonstration at the Collectors office at Bandra Kurla Complex in the vicinity of the US Consulate, to protest against the murder of three Indian sailors by the US military missile strike on a civilian cargo ship in international waters near Iran.  The participating unions included the CITU, AITUC,  INTUC,  AICCTU, FSUI, and TUCI.

The struggle of Haryana’s rural sanitation workers in May 2026 stands out as one of the most significant working-class movements in the state in recent years. Around 10,500 rural sanitation workers have been employed across Haryana since 2007, with one worker serving approximately every thousand residents in rural areas. Most of these workers belong to the Valmiki community, and more than 20 per cent are women. Their labor ensures basic sanitation services in hundreds of villages across the state.

The following statement has been issued by AIKS on June 24, 2026:

The All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) extends its support to the nationwide protest actions being organised on 1 July 2026 by the Joint Platform of Rural Workers’ Organisations against the proposed replacement of MGNREGA by the VB-GRAMG Scheme and in defence of the Right to Work for rural households.

WHEN industrial capitalism was developing in Britain in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, the new machine-made goods had displaced many artisan producers, giving rise to the Luddite movement against the introduction of machines. With increased unemployment, there was an increase in the relative magnitude of poverty, as Eric Hobsbawm had argued in a debate with another historian R.M. Hartwell. But then things improved later on in the course of the nineteenth century.