The public impeachment resolution against the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) of India, Gyanesh Kumar, was unanimously passed on October 31, 2026, by the INDIA bloc opposition parties during a symbolic "public parliament" program. The main text of the resolution reads as follows:
TO understand the imperialism of our time and the ongoing anti-imperialist struggles, it is necessary to trace their origins back to the Russian Revolution of 1917. The October Revolution was the first anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist revolution in the world. Lenin had set out his theory of imperialism in 1916, arguing that imperialism is driven by the need of capitalist powers to find new markets, secure access to resources and identify new avenues for exporting capital. This process generates rivalry, conflict and global exploitation.
THE 36th National Conference of the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) will be held at Nalgonda, Telangana, on November 15-18, 2026. This year marks 90 years since the founding of the AIKS at Lucknow on April 11, 1936. It also marks 80 years since the beginning of the iconic Telangana peasant struggle on July 4, 1946. The decision to hold the 36th Conference at Nalgonda, one of the epicentres of that historic struggle, gives it a special significance.
THE INDIA Bloc’s campaign to defend voting rights and democratic institutions reached a significant moment in New Delhi on October 31 and November 1, 2026, with a symbolic public impeachment of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar followed by a massive rally at Ramlila Maidan. The two programmes formed part of a coordinated political campaign, with the first placing the charges against the CEC before a public forum and the second taking the demand for accountability to the streets.
THE capitalist system cannot experience sustained growth in the absence of an exogenous stimulus, that is a stimulus arising from outside the process of growth itself. This is because the capitalist system witnesses booms and slumps, and while there is an automatic end to booms when capacity is fully utilized, there is no automatic end to a slump. Marx had thought that the scrapping of some equipment would bring the slump automatically to an end.
AFTER the US war on Venezuela, in which the US seized Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores de Maduro, and put a pliant Delcy Rodríguez in power, the US struck an oil deal with the new puppet government. The US secured a 35 per cent stake in a new oil company it created—North American Blue Energy Partners (NABEP)—without making any investments.
COMPLAINTS of large-scale irregularities have emerged in the electoral roll of the Pilibhit Sadar Assembly constituency in Uttar Pradesh. It is alleged that names were changed while the EPIC number and serial number were retained. Irregularities involving 13,150 names have come to light in this case. The matter surfaced after the completion of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR).
Eminent historian Prof. Romila Thapar delivered the Second Sitaram Yechury Memorial Lecture on “Historiography and Early Indian History” on 25 October at Harkishan Singh Surjeet Bhawan, New Delhi. The hall was packed with an audience attending the lecture.
LAST week, some rather bizarre events took place that point to a dire and dangerous direction India is heading to. Marco Rubio, US Secretary of State (their foreign minister), landed in Mumbai, held a flurry of meetings and headed off to Jamnagar, “to meet the folks at Reliance”, as Sergio Gor, US Ambassador to India put it. Rubio skipped New Delhi altogether, explaining the trip as being ‘business-oriented’.
Eight-party alliance calls for removal of Chief Election Commissioner, scrapping of SIR and restoration of deleted voter names; joint fight against BJP in municipal polls also on agenda