Polit Bureau Statements
CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statements
Supreme Court Decision on OBC Reservation Welcome
THE Communist Party of India (Marxist) welcomes the Supreme Court’s decision to introduce reservations for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in its staff recruitment process. The Court has also extended reservations to persons with disabilities, ex-servicemen, and dependents of freedom fighters.
In a significant move, the Chief Justice has initiated the implementation of a roster system for the recruitment of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in the Supreme Court’s non-judicial staff.
The Party appreciates the initiative taken by Chief Justice B R Gavai to amend the recruitment rules, facilitating this long-awaited and important reform in the appointment of non-judicial court staff.
This decision marks a welcome step toward the partial fulfillment of the longstanding demand of the social justice movement to extend reservations to sectors that have so far remained outside the ambit of affirmative action.
(July 06, 2025)
Withdraw the Gujarat Ordinance Amending Factories Act
THE Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) strongly condemns the amendments made to certain key provisions of the Factories Act, 1948 by the Gujarat government.
The BJP government has resorted to the ordinance route to promulgate the Factories (Gujarat Amendment) Ordinance, 2025 on July 1. Through this amendment the working day of factory workers is being increased from the existing nine to twelve hours. It also facilitates the deployment of women workers in night shifts, without making adequate provisions for their concerns including safety and security.
The promulgation of this ordinance on the eve of the General Strike called by ten central trade unions reflects the BJP's contempt for the working class and their demands. It is yet another example of its authoritarianism.
The BJP government of Gujarat under the ruse of ‘ease of doing business’ has been notorious in not only doing away with some of the bare protections given to workers, but also in its failure to implement even the existing safeguards provided to workers.
The CPI(M) reiterates its support to the July 9 General Strike and calls upon the Gujarat government to immediately withdraw the ordinance. It calls upon the workers of the country, including Gujarat, to give a befitting reply to the government by making the General Strike a success.
(July 5, 2025)
Join the Digital Protest against Israel – Silence for Gaza
THE Communist Party of India (Marxist) endorses the global call ‘Silence for Gaza’, which urges people to switch off their mobile phones for half an hour everyday – from 21:00 to 21:30 local time – as a symbolic act of solidarity.
A recently released UN report, From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide, details how various multinational corporations are complicit in Israel’s assault on Gaza. The sinister role of these corporations must be exposed and they must be held accountable to the people.
These corporations feed off our digital footprints, even as they enable genocide. Shutting off our mobile phones for half an hour each day at the designated time is a small but powerful act of digital disruption, a strike against the surveillance capitalism that bankrolls Israel’s genocide and apartheid.
The CPI(M) urges people across the country to actively participate in this digital resistance by spreading the word: switch off your mobile phones and abstain from posting, liking, or commenting on any social media platform during the protest period.
In joining the global ‘Silence for Gaza’ campaign, the CPI(M) stands with the Palestinian people and against the brutal, genocidal assault unleashed by Israel. Let this collective silence be a defiant refusal to be complicit, and a powerful assertion that the voices against war crimes will not be silenced.
(July 5, 2025)
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