CPI(M) PB Condemns Denial of Jantar Mantar as Designated Protest Site

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement on October 12, 2026.

Tripura: Protests across State Demanding Gyanesh Kumar’s Resignation

PROTESTS, rallies and public meetings were held across Tripura on October 10, demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and expressing solidarity with the ongoing movement in Delhi. Besides the state capital Agartala, demonstrations took place in Belonia, Amarpur, Sonamura, Longtharai Valley, Kailashahar and Panisagar. Workers, farmers, agricultural workers, jhum cultivators, students and youths participated in the protest programmes. At several locations, effigies of Gyanesh Kumar were burnt, with protesters demanding his resignation.

NAJ Blasts Targeted Attacks on Media, Women Journos and Opposition

The National Alliance of Journalists (NAJ) in a statement from Delhi today has cautioned against continued attacks on journalists, teachers, students, writers, trade unionists and leaders of various opposition parties targetting the capital and its neighborhood as anti-democratic and against the right of journalists to inform. Clear examples were available in Delhi today and its neighborhood while the Jantar Mantar area resembles a police state fortress. The journalists were covering the ongoing agitation by CJP and various opposition parties in Delhi.

SKM Gives Nationwide Protest Calls on Oct 23, Nov 26

The national council/general body meeting of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) held at Jat Bhawan, Karnal, Haryana, on October 12, decided to intensify the farmers' struggle and organise massive demonstrations on November 26 in New Delhi and across India. The state bodies of SKM will decide the spots. Lakhs of farmers will participate in this protest action. November 26 marks the 6th anniversary of the historic farmers struggle at the Delhi borders.

CPI(M) CC Demands Rollback of SIR, Slams Modi Govt. for Repression

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) met in New Delhi on October 9 & 11, 2026. Originally slated to meet from October 9 to 11, on the second day of the meeting, members of the Central Committee participated in the ongoing struggle against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and demanding the resignation of the Chief Election Commissioner, and were detained.

How RSS Fronts Are Getting Foreign Funds

A NEW report by a group of investigative researchers has revealed how two big front organisations of the RSS funnel funds from US to India, hiding the source of donations through a legal provision in US laws governing non-profit entities. The investigation studied tax filings of Houston, Texas-based Ekal Vidyalaya Foundation of USA Inc (Ekal USA) and Sewa International Inc (Sewa USA) from 2020 to 2024.

A Nobel view: India needs change

In the present atmosphere of Hindutva, traditionalism that looks backwards and ongoing protests led by GenZ about the crumbling of democratic and educational structures, writing about the Nobel Prizes may seem incongruous. But there is a common cause: the need for change.

NOBELS 2026

The Blinkers of Bigotry

QUITE predictably, the President of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Nitin Nabin, has characterized the agitation launched on October 10, by Left student and youth groups and the Cockroach Janata Party, against the Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, as being driven by “foreign forces”.

The Bogey of Communist-Islamist Machinations

COMMUNISTS have always been a thorn in the flesh for the rightwing. It therefore comes as no surprise that the October 11, 2026 issue of the Organiser, the RSS mouthpiece, has once again resorted to the familiar tactic of attempting to falsify history and attack communists in furtherance of its communal agenda. The editorial of the weekly, while eulogising Ashok Singhal on his birth centenary, declares that “The Communist-Islamist machinations on the intellectual front was the biggest hurdle to Ram Mandir reconstruction.”

Cannot Stop Spring from Coming

PABLO NERUDA’s immortal lines read thus: “You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep spring from coming”. These words were the ultimate declaration of the inevitability of collective triumph of the people for a cause worthy of humanity and civilisation. What started as a struggle to salvage electoral democracy, an essential element of our republican constitution from an obnoxious assault on the right to vote has developed into one of the biggest battles for democracy in contemporary India.

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