Polit Bureau Communique

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) met in New Delhi on November 13 and 14, 2025. It has issued the following communique on November 16.Bihar Elections: A record 67 percent of voters participated in the Bihar Assembly elections – an increase of 9.6 per cent compared to the previous election. Notably, 71.6 per cent of women voted, marking a significant rise in female political participation.

Sixteenth Tripura State Conference of CITU Held

The 16th Tripura State Conference of CITU was held on November 10-11 in the Town Hall, Agartala. The inaugural session was held in the afternoon of 10 November, after a mammoth public rally was organised in the heart of the state capital.

RSS – Roots and Wings of Authoritarianism

ELEVEN years of rule of the Modi government has seen a drastic and dangerous erosion of democracy in India. This is not confined to just the electoral system but to all round dismantling of democratic rights, further marginalisation of under-privileged sections, institutional capture by the Sangh Parivar, hollowing out of Constitutional and statutory bodies, destabilising of State governments and their architecture, and the vitiation of society by violence and intimidation emanating from the toxic ideology of Hindutva.

On Bihar Election Results

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on November 14, 2025The victory of the NDA in the Bihar legislative assembly elections is a setback for the Mahagathbandhan. The ruling coalition utilised the entire state machinery, resorted to various manipulations, and deployed huge amounts of money. It benefited from the polarising communal and casteist rhetoric of its leaders, including the Prime Minister and the Home Minister.

Not Mere Symbol, Birsa Munda is a Living Philosophy

15th November was the birth anniversary of Birsa Munda. He was an iconic fighter of the tribals of Chotanagpur for the rights of the tribal people for water, forest and land. This fight in the early parts of the nineteenth century developed as an integral part of our peoples’ struggle against colonial British rule and earned Birsa that iconic status. However, Birsa’s contribution went far beyond. His intellectual and philosophical imagination introduced a larger world view from the tribal traditional life and livelihood standpoint. This analysis throws light on these aspects.

M Y Tarigami urges intervention against harassment of students and workers

CPI(M) leader M Y Tarigami has expressed deep concern over the environment of harassment allegedly being faced by students and labourers working in different parts of the country following the Delhi blast. While those involved in the heinous terrorist act must be brought to justice, effective intervention is required to ensure that students and labourers working in different parts of the country are not harassed.The situation has created fear among the younger generation studying in different parts of India.

Global Employment Trends During Tariff Wars and Technological Change

EMPLOYMENT across the world is undergoing changes. The changes are multi-dimensional, driven by shifting nature of labour contract by skill grades, impacted by uncertainty and shocks in supply chains. However, the tendencies are neither uniform across countries nor do they show uniformity in direction of change. In some advanced countries, as reported by the ILO in a recent report, unemployment rate has fallen although market sentiments are sluggish.

Fifth Anniversary of Farmers’ Protest: Significance of November 26 Agitation

NOVEMBER 26, 2025 marked the 5th anniversary of the beginning of the historic farmers’ struggle at the Delhi borders, actively supported by the united trade union movement. This was the largest mass struggle of peasants and workers in the contemporary history of Independent India. As many as 736 people sacrificed their lives during the protest and the Union government was forced to repeal the three farm laws.

Bihar: Results, Implications and Aftermath

THE Bihar assembly election is a watershed in the electoral history of our country. Conducted against the backdrop of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) announced on June 25, it laid out a new set of ground rules for adult franchise.The debates in the Constituent Assembly, which framed the Constitution, had envisaged a democracy which was to be ‘by the people, for the people and of the people’. Electoral democracy was its cornerstone. It was premised on the legacy of the freedom struggle which underpinned the role of the citizen as its bedrock.

Speculation, Tariff Threat and the Working People

THE fact that speculation can exacerbate a basic situation of shortage of a commodity by encouraging its hoarding, or even cause a completely artificial shortage of it when no basic shortage exists, and thereby play havoc with the lives of the working people, especially when the commodity happens to be a necessity, has been well-known.

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