Dismantling the MGNREGS

THE Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) was perhaps the most consequential legislation enacted in post-independence India.

Don't Blame Jobless Journos: DUJ to CJI

The Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ) is appalled at the recent remarks of CJI Surya Kant regarding unemployed youth of the country. He reportedly said, to a lawyer arguing before him, that many unemployed people today are cockroaches. The CJI reportedly opined that, “There are already parasites of society who attack the system and you want to join hands with them? There are youngsters like cockroaches, who don’t get any employment and don’t have any place in the profession.

Tripura: Questions Raised Over Funds Collected for School Development

Questions are increasingly being raised by parents and education stakeholders over the utilisation of funds collected from students of Vidyajyoti schools in Tripura under the name of “school development fund”. The issue was also raised in the Tripura Assembly. In a written reply to a question from Leader of the Opposition Jitendra Chaudhury, the education minister informed that a total of Rs 26.56 crore had been collected from students of Vidyajyoti schools during the three financial years from 2023-24 to 2025-26.

In Solidarity with the Countrywide Mass Sit-in of AIESL workers

Workers in a former Air India subsidiary, AIESL and now a PSU under the Ministry of Civil Aviation are on a sit-in in front of their MRO facilities in Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai, Kolkata and Nagpur for the last five days against the brazen anti-worker policies of the management.

A Successful Nationwide Strike to Save MGNREGA

ON May 15, 2026, all of rural India echoed with the voices of agricultural and rural workers demanding reinstatement of MGNREGA and roll back of VB-GRAM (G). Tens of lakhs of workers participated in the strike called by the joint platform of agricultural and rural workers’ unions and the NREGA Sangharsh Morcha. In thousands of villages, MGNREGA workers along with many agricultural and rural workers gathered together outside gram panchayats protesting and demonstrating and submitting a memorandum of their demands to the Panchayat Presidents.

Donald Trump Comes to Beijing with Hat in Hand, Leaves with a Handshake

THE scenes unfolding in Beijing were carefully choreographed, yet politics can never be reduced to mere spectacle. When US President Donald Trump travelled to China for his summit meeting with Xi Jinping, Western media, as it often does, fixated on spectacle: lavish banquets, honour guards, theatrical gestures that were designed to flatter the US president. Yet beneath all this ritual lay another reality, harder and more consequential. The United States did not arrive in Beijing from a position of confidence; it came in a state of vulnerability.

Austerity Shifts Burden of War on the Poor

GEOPOLITICAL conflicts affect the lives of people who hardly have any role in initiating the conflict. The ruling class of conflicting nations engage in wars and the burden of the disruptions caused in the process is asymmetrically imposed upon common people. The national leaders of Israel and the US decided to attack Iran out of desperation as both could sense a decline of their control over the Middle East. According to official statements it was to salvage the Iranian people from the tyranny of Islamic rule. They didn’t succeed.

Bhojshala-Kamal Maula Mosque Judgement Unfortunate

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement on May 16, 2026.

THE Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) expresses its grave concern over the Madhya Pradesh High Court judgment in the Bhojshala-Kamal Maula Mosque dispute and its wider implications for the secular and democratic foundations of the Indian republic.

Withdraw Fuel Price Hike

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement on May 15, 2026.

THE Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) strongly condemns the Union government’s decision to hike the prices of petrol, diesel and CNG. The hike of ₹3 per litre in petrol and diesel and ₹2 per kg in CNG will impose more burdens on the working people already reeling under inflation, unemployment, stagnant wages and deepening economic distress.

Neo-Liberal Chickens are Coming Home to Roost

THE rupee’s exchange rate has now crossed ninety-six to a dollar; and there is still no sign of its downward slide coming to a halt. There is talk of its crossing a hundred in the coming days; it is the worst performing currency in Asia at this moment and among the worst in the entire world.

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