Within twenty-four hours of the election schedule being announced, the Left Front released its first list of candidates. In light of the current political climate across both the nation and the state, the Left Front decided to form a united coalition for the upcoming Assembly Elections based on a comprehensive seat-sharing arrangement. The primary objective was to mobilize maximum strength against the BJP and the Trinamool Congress to bring about a change in the state's governance.
April 11, 2026, was the 200th birth anniversary of Mahatma Jotirao Phule and April 14, 2026, was the 135th birth anniversary of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar. Hence, April 11 to 17, was observed as Social Justice Week across the state by the CPI(M) in Maharashtra by organising various socio-cultural programmes to take the struggles and thoughts of these radical social reformers against caste and gender oppression to the people from a Marxist perspective.
All India Federation of University and College Teachers’ Organisations (AIFUCTO), the apex federation representing thousands of teachers has submitted a representation to the Joint Parliamentary Committee for Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishtan Bill (2025) on April 24, 2026. The text of this representation is reproduced below:
The Chairperson,
Joint Parliamentary Committee for VBSA Bill (2025),
A state-level public convention was organised on April 16 at Samhita Convention Hall in Rajamahendravaram, Andhra Pradesh, under the aegis of the KG Basin Gas and Oil Sadhana Samiti. The event focused on the demand that 50 per cent of the gas and oil extracted from the KG Basin be allocated to meet the needs of the state’s people.
M A Baby, General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has written a letter On April 18, 2026, to the Prime Minister, seeking the PM’s intervention to address the concerns of the striking workers in Delhi-NCR. We are herewith releasing the text of the letter for publication.
The 17th Andhra Pradesh State Conference of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) concluded on April 19 after three days of deliberations, rallies, and discussions opposing the Union government’s labour policies under the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The conference commenced on Friday, April 17, with a massive rally in Nandyal town. The rally began at the Market Yard and concluded at the Municipal Town Hall, drawing thousands of workers from across the state.
Certain features associated with neo-fascism have manifested themselves quite clearly during its ascendancy in India. These easily observable features are: the “othering” of a hapless minority and the generation of hatred against it among the majority; the unleashing of repression both by organs of the state as well as by neo-fascist thugs on members of this minority, on critics, on those belonging to the political opposition, on intellectuals, artists and others; and the open, unadulterated class rule by monopoly capital, especially by a newer segment of monopoly capital.
An open letter to the prime minister who has betrayed the nation's women many a time.
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi ji,
You had stated in your address to the nation on the women’s reservation issue that “the fight to give women power participation has been going on for decades…so many women have raised this subject before me. So many sisters have written letters to me explaining everything.”