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CITU observes Jallianwala Bagh Day, calls for united anti-Imperialist movement

The inspiring milestone incident of Indian freedom struggle, the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by British imperialism, was commemorated by the CITU at Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar, on April 13, 2026.

The programme, organised by the Amritsar district committee of CITU, started with paying tribute at the martyrs' memorial at Jallianwala Bagh. The leaders and cadres of CITU and AIKS marched to the memorial and payed floral tributes amidst anti-imperialist slogans.

The Week in Parliament

 

The extended three-day special sitting of Parliament’s Budget Session, beginning April 16, resulted in a major setback for the government, as the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, 2026, which aimed to link 33% women’s reservation with a new delimitation exercise by 2029, was defeated in the Lok Sabha. The Bill failed to secure the required two-thirds majority in the Lok Sabha. Only 298 members voted in favor, while 230 opposed it.

Shelving of linked Bills

Gas Supply Disruptions Reveals Gaps in India’s Fertiliser Policy

The War in West Asia has brought in serious disruptions in natural gas supply resulting in fertiliser production cuts, import slide, price escalation, and widespread uncertainty, directly threatening agricultural stability. However, the roots of this crisis are not purely external; they also lie in the neo-liberal policy of import dependence over domestic resource utilisation and long-term self-reliance.

Advancing Wave of spontaneous working class upsurge reaches NCR

The wave of spontaneous working class upsurge has engulfed Noida (Uttar Pradesh) since April 9, 2026. This wave, which began from Barauni (Bihar) at the end of January, has since then advanced rapidly from one industrial centre to another, Panipat, Surat, Manesar to name a few (In the last 3 months there have been such class actions in more than 60 locations).

BJP’s electoral discourse: threatening, hateful and devoid of accountability

THE assembly elections in the five states of Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Puducherry are extremely important. But the context and the objective which the BJP is trying to pursue is unique in many ways. For the neo-fascist characteristics it has come to assume, for securing a stronger grip across the country, the impulse to draw them into the vortex of a Hindutva straitjacket is even more compelling. This is time and again reflected in the slogan for ushering in a double engine government.

Hungary’s Reshuffle Within Far Right of a Special Type

Hungary’s April 2026 parliamentary elections ended Viktor Orbán’s 16-year rule and brought Péter Magyar to power with a two-thirds parliamentary majority. Instantly, the Western media began to celebrate the victory as a democratic turning point, indicating that Magyar, unlike Orbán, was cosy with the European Union. Yet, beneath the celebratory rhetoric of democratic renewal lies a more sober reality. What has occurred is not a rupture with the political trajectory of the post-communist period in Hungary, but a reconfiguration within the right-wing bloc itself.

Discontent of Immiserated Workers Explodes

WHEN human beings are reduced to packets of labour power, squeezed to the last drop of sweat and silenced through intimidation, such packets can explode! Employers across the world have tried the same strategy to reduce the cost of labour and assert their control over the labour process and history has shown that they have failed every time. Noida is not a stray incident, and it is part of a series of flash protests organised by workers in the recent past in Panipat, Palwal, Gurgaon, Faridabad and Manesar.

DUJ Condemns Attack on Pratidin

The Delhi Union of Journalists has expressed its condemnation of the cowardly attack on the office of the newspaper Asomiya Pratidin in Lakhimpur in the early hours of April 10, 2026. Stones were pelted at the office, shattering glass windows and landing in the newsroom. The attack, in which luckily no one was hurt, comes in the wake of several intemperate statements against the media made by Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.  

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