IWA Condemns Attack on Indian High Commission in Britain

Below we publish the statement issued by the Indian Workers’ Association (Great Britain)THE Indian Workers’ Association (Great Britain) condemns the disgraceful attack on the Indian High Commission and disrespect of the national flag of the Republic of India.IWA GB position on the defence of unity and integrity of India, upholding democracy and secularism is well established.We stand in solidarity with the people of India to uphold the constitution.IWA will always fulfill its patriotic duty to provide a voice for the toiling masses of India against authoritarianism

Electricity Workers of UP Hold Successful 65-hour Strike

THE Electricity Employees Federation of India (EEFI) has congratulated the united struggle of the electricity employees and engineers of Uttar Pradesh for resisting and defying the government’s onslaught and going on a strike against the vindictive termination of its members.

AP: Rich Tributes Paid to EMS and Swarajyam

RICH tributes were paid to late Comrade EMS Namboodiripad on his 25th death anniversary and to Comrade Mallu Swarajyam on her first death anniversary. A meeting was organised by the CPI(M) Andhra Pradesh committee on March 19, at Vijayawada. Party state secretariat member D Ramadevi presided over the meeting.

Latest IPCC Report: Grave Situation, Slim Opportunities

EARLIER this week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the leading international scientific body on climate change working under the aegis of the United Nations, released its latest report from Interlaken, Switzerland. This is not a fresh report based on new findings, but a synthesis report of the three volumes of the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report (IPCC/AR6) which were released at different times during the previous year.

The One Who Cannot Be Named

AFTER seven days of disruption of parliamentary proceedings, the government is now planning to cut short the second half of the budget session by guillotining the demands for grants and passing the finance bill without any discussion.The peculiarity of this decision stems from the fact that it is the ruling party which has been holding up the proceedings in both houses since March 13 with the demand that Rahul Gandhi apologise for certain remarks he made about the state of democracy in India while he was abroad. That this is just a pretext for disrupting the house and preventing any discuss

…And A World to Win!

THE Communist Manifesto begins with the profound observation that the history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles indicating history in the making through class contestations. Capitalism has undergone different regimes of accumulation coordinated through institutions and regulations conducive for particular regimes.

AIKS-led Third Kisan Long March Ends in Victory

THE AIKS in Maharashtra began the third kisan long march from Dindori in Nashik district to Mumbai on March 12, 2023, on a 15-point charter of demands. It was withdrawn at Vasind in Thane district six days later on March 18, after the state government conceded many of the major demands in writing and the chief minister placed the agreement with the AIKS before the state assembly on March 17. (See separate box for demands conceded by government.)THREE KISAN LONG MARCHESThis was the third kisan long march in Maharashtra led by the AIKS.

AIDWA Demands Stern Action Against Brutal Murder of a Young Woman in Budgam

THE All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA), in a statement issued on March 17, has strongly condemned the brutal murder of a young woman in Budgam (Kashmir). On March 7, Arifa Jan went for coaching class but failed to return home. Her brother lodged a missing report with the police on March 8. The police interviewed several suspects and after sustained interrogation, one Shabir Ahmad Wani of Mohandpora Budgam confessed to the murder of the missing girl.We have recently seen other cases of brutal murders of women shocking the nation.

TN: BJP-RSS Game Plan Will Not Succeed in Tripura

CONDEMNING the violence unleashed upon the CPI(M) and Congress in Tripura by the BJP-RSS combine, political parties in Tamil Nadu asserted that the game plan to wipe out Communists from the state or the country would not succeed.In a public demonstration organised by the CPI(M) Tamil Nadu state committee in Chennai on March 13th evening, political parties in the state – DMK, VCK, MDMK, Dravidar Kazhagam, MMK, Vaazhvurimai Katchi, CPI(ML), and representatives from May 17 movement – unitedly condemned the violence unleashed by the ruling BJP and its goondas in Tripura since the results were d

Why Cow Vigilantism is Targeting Mewat?

THE barbarous lynching and burning to death of two Muslim young men on February 15 at Loharu town of Bhiwani in Haryana should not be seen as just another criminal act. It is rather one of the most gruesome incidents in the series of many killings perpetrated in different parts of the country in the recent past, especially since the BJP assumed power at the centre and in several states. Junaid (35) and Nasir (25) belonged to Ghatmika village in the Mewat region of the Bharatpur district of Rajasthan.

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