PCP Expresses Solidarity with the Communists and Other Democratic Forces in India

Below we publish the text of the solidarity message sent by the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) to the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on March 8, 2023

DEAR comrades,

Nationwide Protest against Post-Poll Terror Unleashed by the BJP in Tripura

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on March 6, 2023THE Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) strongly condemns the savage post-poll violence unleashed by the BJP against the CPI(M), Left Front and opposition party cadres. As the results were being declared on March 2 and the BJP was inching towards a majority, an orgy of violence marking the daylight murder of democracy in Tripura was unleashed. Unwilling to accept that it won a wafer thin majority losing over 10 per cent of its vote share and the coalition losing 11 of its sitting seats, the BJP is mou

AIPSO Conference Resolves to Strengthen the Peace Movement

THE national conference of All India Peace and Solidarity Organisation (AIPSO) held on March 4-5, 2023 in Chandigarh, resolved to strengthen the anti-imperialist, peace movement in our country. The Punjab state committee of the AIPSO hosted the conference in which nearly 270 delegates from 21 states participated.

Karnataka: Will BJP get ‘Another Chance to End Corruption’!?

THE schedule for Karnataka assembly election is yet to be announced. Obviously many more ‘inaugurations’ (e.g., Bangalore-Mysore Expressway by PM on March 12) and ‘announcements’ are to be made, before model code of conduct comes into force. The chief minister has announced an ‘agreement’ made with Foxcann for manufacturing iPhones which will provide one lakh jobs, and this agreement was promptly denied by Foxconn.

CPI(M) Holds Janakeeya Prathirodha Jatha in Kerala

THE Kerala CPI(M)’s major political campaign, Janakeeya Prathirodha Jatha (People’s Resistance March), was inaugurated at Kasargode on February 20 and it will conclude on March 18 at Putherikandam Maidan in Thiruvananthapuram after marching through all the 140 assembly constituencies in the state. The jatha is led by MV Govindan, Polit Bureau member and state secretary of the Party, and the jatha team consists of CS Sujatha, M Swaraj, Jaik C Thomas and KT Jaleel with PK Biju as the manager.THE CONTEXTThe jatha is taking place in the background of severe financial

Intensify Worker-Peasant Struggles

THE ever deepening systemic crisis of capitalism, the unprecedented pandemic, imminence of the second global recession in a decade (a phenomena not witnessed in the last eight decades) have all exposed the fact that under the neoliberal paradigm we are seeing a fast paced regression into barbarism.

Imperialism and Natural Resources

THERE is an overwhelming asymmetry between the level of “development” and the possession of natural resources among countries of the world. Take the group of most advanced countries, the G-7 comprising the US, the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Japan and Canada. This group, while accounting for only 10 per cent of the world’s population, possessed over half of global net wealth as of 2020, and roughly two-fifths of the gross domestic product of the world (I have taken for convenience the mid-point of a range of estimates that lie between 32 and 46 per cent).

UP: Justice Moves Further Out of Reach for Dalits, Especially Women

In Hathras, cops barricade a raped woman’s home,hijack her corpse, set it afire on a murderous night,deaf to her mother’s howling pain.

Tripura Elections: Arduous Fight to Restore Democracy

ELECTIONS to Tripura assembly were held on February 16 and the results were declared on March 2, along with Meghalaya and Nagaland, where elections were held on February 27.The Tripura results reveal that in the 60-member legislative assembly, BJP-led ruling alliance got a thin majority – winning 33 seats. They lost 11 seats which they secured in the 2018 election. The CPI(M) won in 11 seats, witnessing a reduction of 5 seats it had won in 2018 (when there was a direct contest between the Left Front and the BJP alliance).

Workers and the Poor under Neoliberalism

THESE days talking about rights of people as individuals or as groups defined by specific identities, marginalised due to cultural and reasons other than that related to work is acceptable and seems fashionable but raising issues of workers is something which is considered to be dangerous! All oppressed people can legitimately raise their voice for their right and dignity but not workers who are exploited by capital, an impersonal systemic class rule.

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