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Joint Intervention of Left Parties on Workers’ Unrest in Delhi-NCR

A joint demonstration was organised today at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi, by Left parties—Communist Party of India (Marxist), Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India (ML), Revolutionary Socialist Party, Forward Bloc, and CGPI. A large number of workers and trade union leaders from Noida, Ghaziabad, and Delhi participated in the protest.

MGNREGA Workers in Distress: Deepening Crisis in Rural Employment

THE Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), India’s most significant rights-based rural employment programme, has long served as a lifeline for the rural poor. This law guarantees every rural household 100 days of statutory employment annually. However, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government has effectively dismantled MGNREGA, pushing the lives of rural workers into a vortex of uncertainty.

From Destitution to Dual Power – the New Proletariat is on the Rise

 

WITH May Day approaching, and the veil of mistrust and despair being shattered, the Indian working class is rising with heroic valour at every moment; it has sent a shiver down the spine of spineless capital and instilled a deep sense of fear in the heart of the heartless state. The upsurges are coming in waves, one after another, sweeping across north and central India - the industrial workers are asserting their existence amid great agony and pain.

Left parties in Uttar Pradesh hold statewide demonstrations against repression of workers in the state.

Left parties in Uttar Pradesh including Communist Party of India (Marxist),  Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India (ML-Liberation), and Forward Bloc, jointly organised demonstrations at District Magistrate offices across all districts of the state on April 23, 2026, registering their protest against the tampering with service conditions of workers in Noida and surrounding areas, the violation of their rights, and the crushing of their movement.

Kill Lists vs Public Good: Two Futures of Artificial Intelligence

ALEX KARP, the chief executive of Palantir, published a 22-point manifesto on April 19 declaring that "hard power in this century will be built on software" and that certain cultures are "regressive and harmful." Five days later, the Chinese AI laboratory DeepSeek released its long-awaited V4 model: 1.6 trillion parameters, open source under the MIT licence, matching the most expensive proprietary American models at roughly one-thirtieth the price.

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Core Electoral Agenda: Left Resurgence in Bengal

Within twenty-four hours of the election schedule being announced, the Left Front released its first list of candidates. In light of the current political climate across both the nation and the state, the Left Front decided to form a united coalition for the upcoming Assembly Elections based on a comprehensive seat-sharing arrangement. The primary objective was to mobilize maximum strength against the BJP and the Trinamool Congress to bring about a change in the state's governance.

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