The elections to the Kerala assembly in 2021 broke the jinx of the past three decades that no political front ruled Kerala for a second consecutive term, by electing the Left Democratic Front with a record majority. Will Kerala elect an LDF Government for another five year period in 2026? The answer to this question is vital not only for the Left in Kerala but also for the Left forces in the country as currently Kerala is the only state under...
A CAPITALIST economy is characterized by continuous process and product innovations, which means that the basket of goods consumed by the people keeps changing over time. New goods are typically introduced by capitalist producers keeping mainly middle class consumers in mind, and once new goods start replacing the old goods, the production capacity in the old-goods-producing sectors declines and the entire population goes over willy-...
ON JANUARY 8, 2026, something unprecedented occurred in the annals of electronic warfare. Iran activated a multi-layered digital suppression campaign that, within hours, degraded Elon Musk's Starlink satellite internet service from functional connectivity to what engineers described as a "patchwork quilt" of intermittent access. According to Filter.Watch, an...
The colonial aggression of abducting Nicholas Maduro, the head of a foreign sovereign country is celebrated by the US president as an efficient military operation conducted to restore democracy and freedom in Venezuela. Maduro has to be portrayed as the head of a drug cartel so that US intervention can be justified as a matter of national security although Venezuela has a nominal share in cocaine trade and hardly produces fentanyl. On the other...
THE Central Committee congratulates the LDF government in Kerala for the eradication of extreme poverty within the state. This success is a testament on the efficacy of the Kerala development model, which is based on progressive politics, decentralised governance and a rights-based approach. Kerala's success was achieved despite a relentless fiscal war waged by the Union government, which has systematically starved opposition-ruled states of funds. This makes the...
“The Country will witness an unprecedented participation of not only workers, but of agricultural workers and peasants and other sections of the people on February 12, 2026, in the all India General Strike”, “the working class of the country will not allow their rights won through decades of fierce class battle under colonial rule and after, to be taken away by the ruling corporate communal nexus” declared the National...
FOLLOWING the President’s assent to the VB-GRAM (G) Bill, 2025, Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Shivraj Singh Chouhan published an opinion piece in The Hindu on December 24, claiming that the new law addresses the “structural gaps” in MGNREGA and that the widespread genuine concerns raised by workers, activists, economists, and academics, both in India and...
Iran is in turmoil. Across the country, there have been protests of different magnitudes, with violence on the increase with both protesters and police finding themselves in the morgue. What began as work stoppages and inflation protests drew together a range of discontent, with women and young people frustrated with a system unable to secure their livelihood. Iran has been under prolonged economic siege and has been attacked directly by Israel and the...
Chandrasekhar Bose, who passed away on 16TH January at the age of 104, was a doyen of the insurance employees’ movement, founding member of the All India Insurance Employees’ Association (AIIEA), and a beloved leader of generations of insurance employees. At the time of his death, he was the oldest living member of the CPI(M). It is to be noted that Bose...
Nothing could be plainer to see than Israel’s colonial occupation of Palestine. Yet, every time a film shows us this plain fact, it becomes ‘controversial’. So it was that when the documentary film No Other Land (2024, directed by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor) won several international awards including at the Berlin Film Festival and the Academy Awards (known popularly as the Oscars), it was seen as being ‘controversial’. Closer home, when...
Polit Bureau StatementsCPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statements
Condemn BJP Government’s Disgraceful Position on Venezuela |
