Tripura: Janashiksha Movement Still Relevant

The Janashiksha Movement (literacy movement) was launched 80 years back among the hilly people of Tripura by some educated tribal youths to emancipate them from the darkness of illiteracy and social superstitions. It still remains relevant today when the ruling forces are committed to reducing education to a commodity that may be purchased only by those who can afford to.

The Battle for Survival – Facing the Vicious Triad

Despite the deafening silence of the mainstream media, the social media space exploded with images and videos of a continuous stream of more than 50,000 red flag bearing working people, mostly tribals, marching across the Palghar district in Maharashtra. This was the heartland of the legendary battle ground of the Worli Revolt.

Defending the Indefensible: A Response to Shivraj Singh Chouhan on VB–GRAM(G)

FOLLOWING the President’s assent to the VB-GRAM (G) Bill, 2025, Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Shivraj Singh Chouhan published an opinion piece in The Hindu on December 24, claiming that the new law addresses the “structural gaps” in MGNREGA and that the widespread genuine concerns raised by workers, activists, economists, and academics, both in India and globally, are merely the result of a “misreading” of the Act.

Maha: CPI(M) Launches Massive 50,000-Strong March, Begins Indefinite Dharna in Palghar

ON January 19, 2026, the CPI(M) began a truly massive march on foot of around 50,000 people hailing from all the tehsils of the Palghar district in Maharashtra. It comprised tens of thousands of peasant women. The overwhelming number of people in this march were Adivasis. The 55 Km-long March started from Charoti in Dahanu tehsil, stopped for the night at Manor, and then marched on January 20 to the Palghar District Collectorate.

Chandrasekhar Bose is No More: Insurance employees’ movement loses its guiding light

Chandrasekhar Bose, who passed away on 16^TH January at the age of 104, was a doyen of the insurance employees’ movement, founding member of the All India Insurance Employees’ Association (AIIEA), and a beloved leader of generations of insurance employees. At the time of his death, he was the oldest living member of the CPI(M).

Central Committee Communique

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) met from 16 to 18 January 2026, in EMS Academy, Trivandrum and issued the following communique on January 19, 2026.

Imperial Decline and the Closing Window for War

ON January 7, 2026, President Donald Trump posted on social media that the Pentagon budget would rise to $1.5 trillion, a 50 per cent increase over current spending and the largest peacetime military buildup since World War II. The announcement came barely four days after the United States abducted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in a military raid on Caracas, killing over one hundred people, including thirty-two Cuban security officers.

Call for United Action against VB-G RAM G, for a strengthened MGNREGA

A round table meeting of agricultural and rural workers, NREGA workers, leaders of organisations of the rural poor, academics, legal defenders, leaders of the National Platform for Rights of the Disabled and right to work activists, concluded successfully at HKS Surjeet Bhawan today. The meeting resolved to form a broader national level joint platform of various agricultural and rural workers unions and organisations affiliated with the NREGA Sangharsh Morcha.

The Great Infrastructure Heist: Decoding the PPP Pipeline

The recent announcement by the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA), Union Ministry of Finance, regarding the creation of a three-year Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Project Pipeline involving 852 projects with a staggering capital outlay of over Rs 17 trillion for the period 2025-26 to 2027-28 is not merely a strategy for ‘infrastructure development.’ It is a calculated manoeuvre to facilitate the expropriation of public wealth and the primitive accumulation of capital by domestic and foreign monopolies at the expense of the working class and the national exchequer.

The Drive for Colonialism

Post-war imperialism was founded upon a basic contradiction, which becomes clear when we compare it with the pre-World War I period. The leader of the imperialist world in any period typically fulfils its leadership role by running an overall balance of payments deficit vis-à-vis other major countries to which capitalism is getting diffused.

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