CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on September 9, 2025THE Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) condemns the visit of Israeli Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich to India. He led an Israeli delegation to sign a bilateral investment agreement with the Indian government.Smotrich belongs to a far right racist party who is the leading advocate in the Netanyahu government for occupying the Gaza strip by forcibly displacing the Palestinian people.

SINCE June 2025, Himachal Pradesh has been facing one of the worst natural disasters in its history. Continuous heavy rainfall has triggered devastating flash floods and massive landslides across the state, causing widespread destruction and suffering.The scale of damage is enormous. Lives have been lost, and thousands have been displaced. Livestock, homes, cowsheds, shops, milk chilling plants, dispensaries, schools, roads, bridges, flyovers, hydroelectric projects, and even traditional water mills (gharats) have been washed away or buried under landslides.

MILLIONS of people in Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir, Delhi, and other regions are suffering unthinkable agony due to unprecedented floods – despite weather forecasts of very heavy monsoon rains issued months in advance. Nothing worthwhile was done by those responsible for the crucial duty of protecting people’s lives and livelihoods.Shockingly, Himachal Pradesh is facing worst devastation even before it could recover from the cloudbursts and landslides that struck just last year.

ON September 2, 2025, the Delhi High Court denied bail to former JNU student and activist Umar Khalid and eight others in a case related to the communal riots that took place in Delhi on February 23-26, 2020. This case is generally known as the ‘larger conspiracy case’ because it is concerned with an alleged conspiracy hatched by several activists to create a communal conflagration in the capital. These activists were involved in the widespread protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) brought in by the Modi government in 2019.

ECONOMICS textbooks tell us that a country imposes tariffs when it wants to protect domestic producers of the imported goods. Donald Trump’s tariffs however serve a broader objective: they are like a military intervention, or a coup d’etat or a terrorist attack, to make nations bend to his will. Indian garment exporters for instance are being hit by 50 per cent tariffs not for the protection of any American garment producers but to make India bend to Trump’s will.This explains the anomalies in Trump’s tariff policy.