Maha: Student Convention for Harmony and Campus Democracy

THE Students’ Federation of India (SFI) launched an all India campaign against hate, Ekta Express - running from December 6, 2024 to January 30, 2025, to combat communalism and uphold democratic values in educational institutions. As part of this nationwide campaign, ‘Ekta Express @ Mumbai: a Student Convention on Harmony and Campus Democracy’ was organised on January 18, 2025, at Mumbai, Maharashtra. The convention brought together students, academics, artists, and journalists in a collective effort to promote harmony and campus democracy.

Stop Covering Up Tragedies, Say NAJ-DUJ

THE Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ) and National Alliance of Journalists (NAJ), in a statement issued on February 17, have expressed their dismay at the attempt by the Railway Police and authorities to intimidate journalist Saumya Raj and prevent her from reporting the stampede deaths at the New Delhi Railway Station on February 16, 2025. Raj, who reports for the popular YouTube channel Molitics India, was asked for her press identity card which she produced but the authorities nevertheless demanded that she stop videoing.

Crisis is Real and so the Transformation

NOWADAYS, crisis has become a very common connotation in the popular realm while talking about the economy. Though, the debate over the nature of crisis persists. At the same time, there exist doubts over the impact of the crisis as capitalism is successfully surviving till date, overcoming all periodic cycles of criticality.Crises in the capitalist mode of production appear due to the discontinuation-rupture in the production and circulation (exchange) processes of the commodities. It originates from lowering of investment in production and lowering of consumption in circulation.

Kerala: CITU Worker Brutally Killed by RSS-BJP Goons

IN yet another brutal incident in Kerala, RSS-BJP goons killed an active CITU worker in Pathanamthitta district on the night of February 16th. Thirty-four-year-old Jithin Shaji was stabbed to death while he was trying to mediate and sort out issues following a scuffle between two groups in Perunad Madathumoozhiyil. The next day, police arrested eight active RSS workers in connection with the murder.In a planned attack by an eight-member group of RSS workers, a sharp weapon was used to fatally stab Jithin.

CPI(M) Leader Writes to Supreme Court Justice On his Comments on ‘Freebies’

Brinda Karat, CPI(M) Polit Bureau member and former Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha had written an open letter BR Gavai, Supreme Court Justice on February 14 regarding the reported comments made by him about `freebies’. Below we publish the text of the letter.I WRITE this open letter to you as one who has been engaged in various capacities in social and political work among the labouring classes, particularly poor women.

Modi in Trump’s Darbar

PRIME Minister Modi’s visit to the White House on February 13 was meant to illustrate how close Modi was to his friend, Donald Trump, and to bask over the photo-op that it presented. Instead, what Modi’s short visit to Washington underlined was the subaltern status that India has been reduced to under Modi’s watch.There was no tearing hurry for the Indian prime minister to have an official meeting with President Trump.

AP: CPI(M) State Conference Calls for Combatting Communalism

THE 27th conference of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Andhra Pradesh called for uniting all Left and secular forces to combat the growing communalism in the state. The conference resolved to resist government policies that allocate public funds and assets to corporates while burdening the people. It also emphasized strengthening the Party’s independent base, which is crucial for building Left unity. The conference was held in Nellore from February 1 to 3, 2025. Nellore is the home district of Comrade P Sundarayya, the founder of the communist movement in South India.

West Bengal's Education Crisis: SFI Leads Protest March

“WHERE the mind is without fear and the head is held high…” Rabindranath Tagore's vision of free knowledge is contradicted by the current education system, which under capitalist rule, controls knowledge to benefit the ruling class. The National Education Policy (NEP), the RSS model, excludes the poor and indoctrinates others to serve corporates and Hindutva ideological interests.The state of education in Bengal paints a grim picture. The closure of schools is rampant, and the student-teacher ratios are incredibly poor.

Corporate Aggression Forces Working People To Unite for Counteroffensive

THE political situation at the all India level has been increasingly influenced by the main contradiction between capital and labour and the consistent corporate efforts to intensify the exploitation of the two major producing classes – workers and farmers.

The Week in Parliament

THE Budget Session of Parliament began on January 31 with President Droupadi Murmu's address to a joint sitting of both the Houses. Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union Budget for 2025-26 on February 1. Overall, the budget was disappointing as people had high expectations from it. There is nothing in the budget for the general public. The expectation that the budget would strengthen the public sector and help generate more employment in the country has not materialised. There are no measures aimed at curbing price rise.

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