Visakhapatnam Steel Plant Accident Caused by Negligence of Management

A MAJOR industrial tragedy struck the Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL) steel plant in Visakhapatnam on June 8 when an explosion triggered a massive fire and caused molten steel to spill inside the facility. RINL is the corporate entity of the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP). Eight workers were killed and six others sustained injuries in the accident, officials said. The blast occurred at around 4.40 pm when a ladle carrying molten steel exploded, leading to the spillage of hundreds of tonne of molten metal.

Bulldozers at Midnight: Jadavpur Eviction and Resolute Resistance

IN the first week of June 2026, Jadavpur railway station, in the immediate vicinity of Jadavpur University, ceased to be merely a busy transport hub in south Kolkata. It mutated into ground zero for a tense confrontation over human livelihood, state coercion, and the right to the city. What the state apparatus justified as a routine “anti-encroachment” drive rapidly triggered a massive, cross-class resistance movement.

Prepare for Struggles against BJP Govt Policies: Raghavulu

CPI(M) Polit Bureau member B V Raghavulu called upon the people and Left parties to prepare for struggles and mass movements against what he described as the dangerous political developments taking place in the country under the policies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He was speaking at a meeting on “current political developments’ in Vijayawada on May 30.

Odisha: CPI(M) Calls for Broader People’s Movements Against Anti-People Policies of BJP Govt

The three-day meeting of the CPI(M) Odisha State Committee and a state-level cadre convention, held in Bhubaneswar from June 6 to 8, discussed the prevailing international, national and state situation and adopted an extensive programme of political and mass mobilisation against corporate exploitation, communal polarisation and the anti-people policies of the BJP governments at the Centre and in Odisha.

AIKS Bihar State Conference Resolves to Intensify Struggles on Burning Peasant Issues

THE 38th Bihar State Conference of the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) was held from June 6-8, 2026 at Motihari in East Champaran district. It was attended by 315 delegates from 30 districts. Champaran is famous for the indigo farmers struggle led by Mahatma Gandhi in 1917. After that, there have been several militant class struggles in this district, led by the AIKS against landlordism, for land rights, and on other issues.

UP: CPI(M) Holds Statewide Protests Against Power Crisis

On the call of the Uttar Pradesh state committee of the CPI(M), protests were held at the offices of superintending engineers of power corporations, holding the Yogi Adityanath government responsible for the severe power crisis in the state. Memorandums addressed to the chief minister were submitted as part of this agitation.

High Court Order on Masjid Kamal Maula-Bhojshala: Neither a Verdict nor Justice

Ironies don’t always have to be in absurdities, they can also manifest in contrasts, mirror images. The images are of Pakistan and India. Pakistan, the country about which no one has any illusion of being a secular country or an inclusive democracy, was restoring the names of different places.

CPI(M) Stands in Solidarity with Struggling Workers in Noida

A CPI(M) delegation led by General Secretary M A Baby met workers in Noida who had been arrested during the Noida workers’ movement and were released on bail after spending nearly a month in jail. These victimized workers have also been dismissed from their jobs.

The workers told the delegation that they were subjected to physical assault in police custody, framed with fabricated evidence, and booked under multiple charges in an attempt to crush their movement.

The Rhetoric-Reality Chasm: One Month of BJP Government in West Bengal

It has been nearly a month since the new BJP government took office in West Bengal. Within this remarkably short span, public unease regarding its administrative approach has been steadily mounting. This discomfort stems not only from the ruthless eviction of hawkers and vendors and the chilling implications of introducing a "bulldozer culture" to the state. It is also not limited to the "statist" rhetoric of the BJP state president and other leaders who are advocating for a complete overhaul of textbooks and social life.

The ‘Bulldozer Raj’ Arrives in West Bengal

THE dreaded political apparatus known colloquially as “bulldozer justice” — the extrajudicial demolition of property via executive fiat — has officially arrived in West Bengal. For years, political observers watched the deployment of heavy earthmoving machinery as a tool of state intimidation across BJP-ruled northern and central India, often dismissing it as a phenomenon entirely alien to the unique socio-political fabric of Bengal. That illusion has now been completely shattered.

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