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Anti-Poor Budget Tailor-Made For Corporates and the Rich

Below we publish the statements issued by various class and mass organisations, on the Union Budget 2025-2026Centre of India Trade Unions (CITU)THE Union Budget 2025-26 maintained a consistent and brazenly pro-corporate and anti-people, approach while presenting a deceptive facade of pro-people and pro-growth initiatives. The government, true to its pro-corporate bias, chose to ignore the stark findings of its own Economic Survey released just a day earlier.

Working Class and the Party of the Working Class

THE Modi led NDA government reportedly intends to notify the Labour Codes, probably in April 2025, and has started preparations for this. Soon after coming to power for the second time in 2019, the Modi government identified the so-called ‘Labour law reforms’ as one of its top-most priorities. It merged 29 existing labour laws into four Labour Codes and utilising its majority, got them passed in Parliament in 2019-20.

The Hyper-Imperialism of Donald J Trump

IT did not take long. Within weeks, US President Donald J Trump authorised the firing of missiles at some caves in Somalia, where – he claimed – a military leader of ISIS (or the Islamic State) was hiding. No US president in the past quarter century has started his term without an attack on ‘terrorists’. Three days after he became president, on January 23, 2009, Barack Obama sent an aircraft to fire a missile at Ziraki village in North Waziristan (Pakistan).

Telangana: CPI(M) Conference Calls for Heightened Struggles

  • The conference was organised entirely with donations from industrial workers.
  • The majority of the volunteers were recruited from industrial workers.
  • On this occasion, funds sufficient for the district movement for the coming year were also secured. These funds were entirely collected through donations from unorganised workers and door-to-door collections.
  • No donations were accepted from industrialists, contractors, or leaders of bourgeois parties.

The Chandigarh Struggle and the Working Class Movement

CHANDIGARH witnessed a militant struggle against the privatisation of its public electricity utility for last two months. The Chandigarh UT administration forcefully privatised it on February 1, 2025. They lodged cases against the struggling employees and the protesting citizens.The indomitable struggle of the employees has compelled the new management to agree for a memorandum of settlement to protect the interests of the consumers and permanent and outsourced workers.

Union Budget: Rebates for the Well-off; Cuts for the Majority

THE finance minister presented the budget for the FY 2025-26 in the context of a slowing down of growth, rising inequality, lack of private investment together with declining growth of government investment, depleting foreign exchange reserves and declining growth of exports. The growth of consumption expenditure continues to be low as real wage and earnings are eroded due to episodes of high food inflation.

Mammoth Rally in Tripura

THERE has been a red tsunami at Agartala on January 29, the day of the public rally held on the occasion of the opening of 24th state conference of CPI(M) in Tripura. People from all corners of the state thronged the streets of the state capital and virtually painted the city red with fluttering red flags, banners, festoons, and balloons. This spectacular sight was ensured in spite of the fact that the BJP tried every dubious technique to prevent people from coming to the rally.First it was the state government that tried to stop the public rally.

Jharkhand: CPI(M) State Conference Calls for Strengthening the Party

THE 8th Jharkhand State Conference of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) was held from January 9 to 11, 2025, in Ranchi's Namkum suburb. The conference called for building a better Jharkhand and it aimed to strengthen grassroots movements and build an independent and strong organisational base for the Party in the state.The venue was named after Comrade Sitaram Yechury, while the auditorium was named after Buddhadeb Bhattacharya. The stage was named after Subhash Munda, a martyr from Ranchi.

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