M A Baby, General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has written a letter to the Hon’ble President of India on October 20, 2026, seeking intervention for the withdrawal of the amendments to the Census rules.
ON October 6, 2026, OpenAI put out a document announcing new solutions to longstanding mathematical problems proved by an Artificial Intelligence (AI) model. In itself, this was not surprising, since the last few months have witnessed a series of new and exciting results in mathematics proved by some AI model or the other. Yet, the October 6 announcement turned out to be a different category altogether: some would describe it as a bombshell,...
THE Siang Upper Multipurpose Project (SUMP) has naturally emerged as a serious concern for the indigenous communities of the Upper Siang, Siang, and East Siang districts of Arunachal Pradesh. Conceived in 2008 as India’s largest hydropower project, the 11,200 MW project, proposed across three districts of the Siang Valley, is now being projected as a strategic countermeasure to China’s similar...
A FESTIVAL belongs fundamentally to the working masses who build it, animate it, and sustain its collective social life. In Bengal, the autumn festival has historically represented a broad, democratic commons—a popular cultural space where neighbourhood solidarity, working-class labour, and progressive intellectual inquiry have consistently pushed back against feudal patronage and bureaucratic control....
SO, a decision has finally been reached! The Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI), established to drive India's industrial growth and economic foundation, is now slipping completely out of Indian hands and into the control of foreign capital. If implemented, the decision approved by the Union Cabinet on October 14, 2026, will place this institution, which holds a pivotal place in India's economic development...
THE continuous push for militarisation is an attempt of capitalism as a system to overcome its crisis, for which it creates wars in one or the other way. The current phase of crisis being a systemic crisis of capitalism warrants it to be in continuous war as witnessed at present. This inevitably leads to soaring of militarisation expenses as against a lag in developmental expenses. Recent reports vindicate it and reveal the barbaric nature of...
THE war around Bab al-Mandab (the doorway to the Suez Canal) has brought into sharp focus the instability of the regional order in West Asia. Saudi Arabia has renewed its military campaign in Yemen, while Ansar Allah has intensified attacks on Saudi airports and energy installations. The tensions between Saudi Arabia and Yemen go back over a decade, with no end in sight through diplomacy (now foreclosed) or through warfare. At the early...
ON October 17, 2026, at short notice, more than a hundred women belonging to various women’s organisations like AIDWA, NFIW, AIPWA, AIMSS, All India Feminist Alliance (ALIFA), AICCWW, Pragatisheel M S, Purogami M S, PMEK, ICWM, Collective, Saheli, SFI, KYS, CSW and Anhad assembled near the Bangla Sahib Gurudwara and marched to the Delhi Police Headquarters condemning the...
IN his foundational critiques of political economy, Karl Marx laid bare the essential dialectic of human existence. Mankind does not merely exist as an abstract biological entity. We actively produce, refashion, and discover our own nature through conscious, physical interaction with the material world. Labour,...
A DELEGATION including AIKS General Secretary Vijoo Krishnan, AIDWA President Sreemathy Teacher, CITU Secretary Meenakshi Sundaram, AIAWU General Secretary B Venkat, AIAWU Joint Secretary N Chandran, AIIEA President Dharamraj Mahapatra and BEFI President S.S.Anil visited Cuba during August 10-17, 2026, to take part in the four-day event, 'First International Colloquium: Fidel, Legacy and Future', held in Havana on the birth...
Polit Bureau StatementsCPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statements
Condemn BJP Government’s Disgraceful Position on Venezuela |
