INTERNATIONAL students on US campuses are at present a terrified lot: they can be abducted, sent to some detention centre hundreds of miles from where they live, kept there for any length of time, and then deported abroad. And all this can happen to them not because they have violated any known law, but entirely at the whim of the administration. Exact estimates are difficult to come by, but about 1500 students are reported to have had their student visas revoked and are facing deportation....
TWO sectors, namely international aviation and international shipping, each representing around 3 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, have remained outside the purview of international negotiations and treaties such as the Kyoto Protocol and Paris Agreement under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The UNFCCC, as well as negotiations and emissions control regimes under it, regulate actions by government parties as the only...
AFTER a White House meeting between Trump and Netanyahu, Netanyahu said, "We're both united in the goal that Iran does not get nuclear weapons." He added, "If it can be done diplomatically, in a full way, the way it was done in Libya, I think that would be a good thing" (italics mine). The Libyan model is where President Gaddafi surrendered and disarmed and was promptly overthrown...
EVEN while being the supreme head of the Catholic Church, the late Pope Francis stood out as a spiritual leader for the entire world. He was a remarkable personality who took notable stances against the control of the few in the institution of the Catholic Church. However, it cannot be said that such interventions have led to a complete transformation of the Catholic Church as a whole.
WAQF, an Arabic word, refers to the creation of a property for religious and charitable purposes. When a converted Jew offered a piece of land to Hazrat Mohammad, he advised that the land be donated in the name of Allah as a Waqf. The proceeds from this Waqf were to be used for the benefit of poor Muslim widows, students, or for mosques, madrasas, and orphanages. As a result, lakhs of Waqf properties were established in...
I WAS fortunate enough to visit Cuba for the first time between January 28th and February 3rd of this year. An invitation had been received by our Party inviting some members to participate in the 5th International Conference ‘For World Balance’ which was being held for the second time in Cuba. The conference is an initiative of the UNESCO and, in Cuba, it is organised by The José Martí Project for World Solidarity, sponsored by UNESCO...
THE general body meeting of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) was held in New Delhi on April 20, with delegates from across India. The meeting resolved to extend full support to the All India General Strike of workers called by the Central Trade Unions (CTUs) on May 20, 2025. The strike is being organised in opposition to four Labour Codes which are the pro-corporate and the ongoing push for privatisation, among other pressing demands. SKM has called upon...
COMRADE Lenin’s 155th birth anniversary was observed in the whole state of Tripura on April 22, 2025. On this occasion, a hall meeting was organised by the CPI(M) state committee in Town Hall, Agartala. People in large numbers attended the meeting that was addressed by Manik Sarkar, senior leader of CPI(M), Jitendra Chaudhury, Polit Bureau member and Ratan Das, secretary of West Tripura district committee. The meeting was presided over...
THIS 24th Congress of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) expresses great concern about growing violence against women and children in the decade of BJP rule. Data from the National Crime Records Bureau’s (NCRB) ‘Crime in India’ reports indicates that the number of reported crimes against women increased from 3.37 lakh in 2014 to 4.45 lakh in 2022, marking an increase of over 30 per cent. This increase in the number of crimes is, unfortunately...
DEAR comrades! Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation salutes the delegates to the 24th Congress of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), its members, allies and supporters in struggle for common people and their rights. International situation worldwide requires concentration and coordination of efforts by all communist and workers parties as well as correct analysis and unity in assessments of common issues. We all have...
