On CITU Foundation Day

THIS May 30th, CITU will turn 54. During this period of over five decades since its foundation, CITU made serious efforts to put into practice the slogan ‘Unity and Struggle’, adopted at its foundation conference.

Odisha: CPI(M) Campaigns against BJD Misrule and BJP’s Jumlabaji

ODISHA has completed two phases of elections, covering 9 Lok Sabha seats and 63 assembly seats. Both the Lok Sabha and state assembly elections are being held together. The state has witnessed multiple visits from prominent BJP figures, notably prime minister Modi, who has made three visits to Odisha in May, along with several central ministers and chief ministers from BJP-governed states. Conversely, BJD leaders, spearheaded by chief minister Naveen Patnaik and political figure Karthikeyan Pandian, formerly a bureaucrat, have also undertaken extensive tours.

Neo-Liberalism Has Increased Mass Poverty

THE media has been full of claims by the World Bank and by governments that millions of people in the global South have been lifted out of poverty during the last three decades that saw neo-liberal economic policies. The Niti Aayog in a press release earlier this year claimed near zero poverty for India by 2022-23, affecting only 5 per cent of the population.

CPI(M) Writes to EC on Repeated Violations of Model Code of Conduct

Sitaram Yechury, general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), wrote a letter to Shri Rajiv Kumar, Chief Election Commissioner of the Election Commission of India, on 19th May 2024, regarding repeated violations of the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) by PM Modi and other BJP leaders. He also expressed concerns about the ECI’s silence on the series of complaints made regarding such violations.

Israel’s Unending Genocidal War on the Palestinians

AFTER seven months, the lead prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan KC, decided to announce that he would be looking into framing warrants regarding Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza. With nearly 40,000 people dead and 10,000 missing, and with over two million people displaced and threatened with death from bombs or from disease, this war is one of the worst in recent years.

Sundarayya Memorial Lecture: ‘Indian Democracy Under Threat – Stand Up to Protect our Liberties’

JUSTICE S Muralidhar (retired chief justice of the Odisha High Court), delivered the 39th Sundarayya memorial lecture organised in Hyderabad on May 19. His lecture was titled: ‘Constitutional Democracy – Freedom of Expression – Today’s Indian Realities’. Covering a wide canvass, he started his lecture by paying rich tributes to Comrade P Sundarayya stating that it is very rare to find such great men in public life today.

Make Israeli Rulers Accountable for War Crimes

THE chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, has sought arrest warrants to be issued against Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and defence minister Yoav Gallant along with three Hamas leaders, including Ismail Haniyeh. The prosecutor has stated that there is enough evidence that the Israeli prime minister and defence minister have committed crimes against humanity and war crimes during the seven month-old war on Gaza. The prosecutor has stated that there are deliberate efforts to starve the civilian population of Gaza, leading to the deaths of women

NAJ, DUJ, APWJF Welcome Bail to Journalists

THREE journalists’ unions – National Alliance of Journalists (NAJ), Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ) and the Andhra Pradesh Working Journalists’ Federation (APWJF) have, in a joint statement issued on May 15, welcomed the bail given to journalists Prabir Purkayastha, Gautam Navlakha and Aasif Sultan in three different UAPA cases.

Welcome Bail to Kejriwal

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on May 10, 2024THE Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) welcomes the Supreme Court order granting interim bail to Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal. By doing so, the court has foiled the very purpose of arresting Kejriwal in order to prevent him from participating in the campaign for the Lok Sabha polls.This verdict has exposed the nefarious designs of the Enforcement Directorate and the Modi government.

Narendra Dabholkar Murder Verdict: Incomplete and Unsatisfactory

Below we publish the statement issued by the Maharashtra state committee of CPI(M) on May 10TWO accused, Sachin Andure and Sharad Kalaskar, who shot anti-superstition crusader Dr Narendra Dabholkar dead, have been given a sentence of rigorous life imprisonment by a Special Court in Pune on May 10, 2024. While hailing this verdict, the Maharashtra state committee of the CPI(M) expresses its sense of anguish and dissatisfaction at the prosecution's failure to convince the court of the culpability of the three other accused, viz., Veerendra Tawade, Adv.

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