Fix Accountability: Punish Those Responsible For Stan Swamy’s Death

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on July 5, 2021THE Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) expresses intense grief at the death of Father Stan Swamy.The 84 year-old Jesuit priest and activist who championed the rights and causes of the adivasis in far flung areas of Jharkhand was jailed last October on trumped up charges under the draconian UAPA and was sought to be linked with the Bhima Koregaon case.He was denied treatment for his various ailments including the debilitating Parkinson’s.

Comrade Mahendra Singh

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on July 4, 2021THE Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) expresses its deep shock and grief at the sudden death of a member of its Central Committee and veteran leader of the Party in Maharashtra, Mahendra Singh. He died this morning owing to a heart attack. He had recovered from Covid a few months back. Mahendra Singh was 77 years old.Trained as an engineer, while working, he began a union of workers in his own factory and left his job.

Bihar: Protest over price rise, Campaign against Demolition Drive

THERE is no procurement at MSP in Bihar, and it has been a constant demand of farmers and farmer organisations. Areas in districts like Western Champaran, Eastern Champaran, Gopalganj and several other districts of north Bihar are flooded. Before this, people had to suffer due to the Yaas cyclone. Even the situation of capital Patna is not good and it gets inundated even with little rain. CPI(M) leaders visited flood-affected areas and found that disaster management by the government is totally missing.

Covid-19 National Vaccination Policy: BJP and Its Governments Propaganda Overdrive

THE union government announced “free vaccine for all” on June 7, and a gap of 15 days was kept before its implementation on June 21, to prepare for a countrywide massive propaganda campaign of “Thank You Modiji” in Hindi and “Thank You, PM Modi” in English linked with the vaccination.

Institutional Murder Most Foul: Unite to Fight

A TRAGEDY struck triggering a wave of shock and outrage across the country. Around 2.30 pm on July 5, when before the Bombay High Court bench of Justices S S Shinde and N J Jamadar took up the bail application of the octogenarian Stan Swamy, senior advocate Mihir Desai, his counsel announced that Dr Dsouza of Holy Family Hospital Mumbai who was treating the jailed Jesuit priest wanted to make a statement. He informed the bench, “It is with a very heavy heart I have to inform you that father Stan Swamy has passed away”.

‘Marxism is Our Fundamental Guiding Ideology’

TODAY, the first of July, is a great and solemn day in the history of both the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Chinese nation.

CPC Has Converted a Continental Nation Into a Maritime Power

LAST month China was in news for two reasons. The first was for the spectacular celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the Communist Party of China (CPC). The second big news related to the Chinese navy.Even the die-hard critics of CPC acknowledge its accomplishments in taking the world’s most populous country out of absolute poverty.

Polit Bureau Communique

CPI(M) Polit Bureau met online on June 3, 2021. It has issued the following statement on June 4, 2021COVID VACCINATIONThe second wave of the pandemic has plateaued according to pandemic administrators but there is no substantial decline in the number of infections. This is very alarming and concerning.The only way to protect the lives of our people and contain the pandemic is through a massive free universal mass vaccination programme. The target of vaccinating all adults by the year-end requires close to 190 crore vaccination doses.

The Persecution of Stan Swamy

THE persecution and eventual death of 84 year old Father Stan Swamy while in judicial custody has brought out many aspects of the perversion of the criminal justice system under the Modi regime.The use of the draconian Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) against political and social activists; the use of the NIA and central agencies to carry out the political agenda of the ruling party; the role of sections of the judiciary, acting as an “executive judiciary”, conniving in the denial of fundamental rights of citizens and an inhumane jail system which violates basic human rights of pri

People-Centric Reforms: Not Profit Centric

We are perpetually asked: Are you pro-reform, or, anti-reform? No reform is in the abstract. Every reform has content; a purpose. These determine whether the Left supports any particular reform or opposes it. The Central issue here is whether the reforms are in the interests of our people, their livelihoods and strengthening the country’s economic sovereignty. This has been our approach all through these decades of economic reform in India. This continues to be our approach.THREE decades of economic reforms in India come in the backdrop of the continuing unprecedented struggl

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