On Bangladesh

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on December 20, 2025.

THE Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) expresses its deep concern over the recent developments in Bangladesh. It urges the interim government of Bangladesh to act immediately against attacks on media outlets and minorities, and to protect the rights of the people. The two most revered cultural institutions Chhayanot and Udichi have come under dastardly attack.

Karnataka : Thousands demand Alternative Politics, Policies

"MODI Government, while talking of Vikasit Bharat, is blocking all opportunities for the growth of people. As part of its assault on people’s rights, REGA act has been changed with many amendments. MNREGA name has been changed to VB G RAM G. But this is not just a change in name, but in content also. The changes made have not been to better it. But MNREGA, which was helping rural workers to an extent, has been effectively buried" declared U Vasuki, CPI(M) Politburo member while speaking at a well-attended rally at Bangalore.

Magnificent victory of People Over Corporates in Hanumangarh

The magnificent victory of the 16-month long mass movement against forcibly setting up of an ethanol factory has found a proud place among some of the few successful agitations that took on the ‘double engine’ corporate-communal government head on.

Scrapping MGNREGA is an Assault on Constitution

THE Central Government has used its majority in Parliament to scrap the Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). The new law that replaces it is a law for outright “adhikar chori” (rights theft). It has changed the very nature of MGNREGA. While it is a direct assault on the rights of the rural working poor, it should be seen in the framework of an attack on the Constitution of India.

Experts send Open Letter to the Government in Support of MGNREGA

The Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee (MGNREGA or NREGA) is the largest rights-based public employment programme in the world, signed into law in 2005. It faces imminent repeal by the Indian government, which intends to replace it with the Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) VB – G RAM G Bill (2025).

2025 - The Year That Was, 2026 - The Year That Will Be

THIS being the year end issue, People’s Democracy greets all our readers for the coming year. For us, reviewing the year gone by is important, as the past gives us the wherewithal to understand the present and step into the future with all our energy and purpose.

Caste and the Court: Judicial Discourse & Unfulfilled Constitutional Promise

The Supreme Court’s Centre for Research and Planning has released an important document — the Report on Judicial Conceptions of Caste (2025) — examining how India’s highest court has historically understood caste. While the report is institutionally framed as a self-reflective exercise, a close reading reveals something far more significant: a decades-long ideological struggle within the judiciary, between the transformative, egalitarian mandate of the Constitution and the deeply embedded worldview of the upper-caste social order.

Bangladesh Burns, But Not the Resolve

BANGLADESH is in a state of unrest. It burns with hatred. One horrifying incident after another is being manufactured by violent, ultra-fundamentalist, fanatic extremism. Anti-India rhetoric is escalating at an alarming pace and anti-India slogans are being raised across Bangladesh.

Bangla Bachao Yatra: Practising Alternatives across Bengal

The Save Bengal Journey, which began on November 29 from the Char of Raidak (the Dol Mela ground in Tufanganj), witnessed 19 sunrises and traversed 11 districts before concluding at BT Road in Belgharia. Even before independence, Belgharia witnessed the labour movement of 1938 and saw the red flag at the gates of the jute mills. The struggle to save Bengal today is the inheritor of that flowing stream of the communist movement. Now the industrial belt has been fragmented into pieces.

An Outrageous Assault On The Indian Constitution

SEVERAL employment schemes, each limited in scope and constrained by the availability of fiscal resources, had existed in different states of the country earlier; what the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme enacted in 2005 did was to introduce a uniform, nation-wide, essentially centrally-funded, demand-driven scheme: one person per rural household could get up to a hundred days of employment on demand, failing which the person demanding work would have t

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