Enable GingerCPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on January 2THE latest expression of the Modi government’s active hostility towards the demand based rural work guarantee law – the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) is the imposition of an Aadhaar Based Payment System (ABPS) the deadline of which expired on December 31, snatching away the right to crores of workers.  Under the law, every rural worker has the right to a job card and every job card holder has the right to at least 100 days work.The first violation of th

Enable GingerCPI(M)  Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on December 24THE Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) strongly condemns the brutal killing of three civilians in the Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir while they were in custody of the army.Mohammad Showkat, Safeer Hussain and Shabir Ahmad were rounded up by army personnel and subjected to severe torture which resulted in their deaths.  The J&K administration has announced compensation for the families of deceased.  But that is not enough.  There has to be a speedy investig

Enable GingerCPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on December 11THE verdict of the Supreme Court dismissing the challenges to the abrogation of Article 370 and dissolution of the state of Jammu and Kashmir is disturbing and has serious consequences for the federal structure of our constitution which is one of its fundamental features.The verdict says that J&K does not retain any element of sovereignty after the Instrument of Accession was signed and hence rules that the constitution of J&K is redundant.

Enable GingerThe Left parties – CPI(M), CPI, CPI(ML), AIFB and RSP – have issued the following statement on November 11THE Left Parties are strongly critical of the Modi government for its refusal to join the global call for an immediate ceasefire at the India-US 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue.Left Parties had earlier urged the Modi government to stop endorsing US-Israeli genocide. At the 2+2 dialogue, there was a call for “humanitarian pause”, with India reiterating a 2-State solution.

Enable GingerCPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on November 15, 2023THE Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) expresses deep grief at the passing away of Comrade N Sankariah, veteran leader of the CPI(M) and one of the oldest Communist leaders of the country.  He was 102 years old.Sankariah, as a student of the American College in Madurai, joined the freedom struggle. He was arrested just before his final examinations and thus could not get his degree.