A two-day workshop on social media - an accessible, dominant, and cost-effective medium for communication and for disseminating the Party's policies and programmes to the widest possible audience - was held on March 6 and 7, 2026, at the CITU office in Nashik. It was attended by over 160 activists, predominantly youth, from 23 districts.

The alleged multi-crore Chester Hill land scam in Solan has erupted into a major political storm in Himachal Pradesh, with the state unit of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) demanding the immediate removal of the Chief Secretary and a comprehensive probe into what it describes as a systemic failure of land governance. Party leaders termed the case a serious example of the growing nexus between sections of the bureaucracy, political actors, and the real estate lobby, warning that its implications could extend far beyond Solan.

The first-time voters appearing for their Higher Secondary exams this year, or those on the verge of graduation, have grown up seeing only the Modi and Mamata governments. They have come of age amidst corruption, the reign of miscreants, Hindu-Muslim hatred, communal violence, rape, unemployment, crumbling state schools and hospitals, despair, precarious low-income jobs, and a widening chasm between the rich and the poor. This generation has never had the opportunity to witness a Left-wing government. Instead, they find deprivation, poverty, and frustration to be their constant companions.

The world is looking elsewhere. Other conflicts dominate the headlines. But Cuba is under attack. Wars these days are fought not only on the battlefield. There is a simultaneous information war being waged to shape perception through deception and gain a psychological advantage. This is something more subtle. More dangerous. In Cuba, the goal is to break the Cuban peoples resistance from within.

The Left Front’s manifesto for the West Bengal Assembly elections highlights people’s livelihood issues above anything else: ‘No Mandir-Masjid, Bengal needs Employment’. It is a document that excels the left, democratic and secular alternatives to “Save Bengal”. Veteran CPI(M) leader and Left Front Chairman Biman Basu released the election manifesto in a press meet on March 4, along with CPI(M) Polit Bureau member Sridip Bhattacharya, CPI State Secretary Swapan Banerjee, Sanjib Chatterjee of the Forward Bloc, Rajib Banerjee of the Revolutionary Socialist Party and others.