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.

Of Cockroaches, Ostriches, And Missing Accountability

THERE is disquiet. There is expectation, if not desperation, to move ahead. Coming in the backdrop of assembly elections outcome, this present conjuncture appears to be unreal. The BJP-RSS is busy authoring a narrative that the BJP as a political force is invincible and, more importantly, irreplaceable. Where does it leave Indian democracy?

Demography Committee and the Larger Hindutva Project

THE Union government has announced the setting up of a High-Level Committee (HLC) ostensibly to examine “unnatural” demographic changes arising from illegal immigration, abnormal settlement patterns, etc.

Cockroaches can defeat BJP on social media, but can they defeat Neofascism?

THE Chief Justice of India compared unemployed youth to “cockroaches,” saying that “some of them become media, some become social media, RTI activists” and “start attacking everyone.” The remark was made by Justice Surya Kant on May 15, 2026, during a Supreme Court hearing on a lawyer’s petition concerning senior advocate designation.

Brinda Karat’s Letter to Commissioner of Police, Delhi

Brinda Karat, senior leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), and former Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha has written a letter on June 8, 2026 to Satish Golchha, IPS, Commissioner of Police, Delhi, requesting his urgent intervention in a case of illegal actions by Delhi Police personnel from the New Rajinder Nagar PS, against a young woman.

We are herewith releasing the text of the letter for publication.

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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.

Halt Adani-Leap India Takeover of India’s Public Food Security Infrastructure

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement on June 3, 2026.

Labour Codes Operationalised - Alternatives before States

The Modi government at the centre has fully operationalised the four labour codes on May 8, 2026, notifying 30 central rules. Several state governments are also prepared to operationalise the codes in line with the central rules. BJP led state governments are eager to do it at the earliest as double engine sarkars. The non-BJP led state governments are also prepared with the final drafts of state rules, even though they are opposing the central labour codes for public consumption.

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.

The “Reform” Chorus

Neo-liberal spokesmen have the remarkable quality that whenever an economy gets into a crisis through the pursuit of neo-liberalism, their standard panacea for it is to demand even more neo-liberal “reforms”.

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