THE first day of the winter session of parliament revealed a great deal of what the Modi government’s attitude to parliament is – outright contempt for parliament and its democratic functioning.Contrary to what prime minister Modi had declared, at the outset, that the government is willing to discuss any issue and reply to any question raised by the opposition, the ruling party refused to allow any discussion on the repeal of the three farm laws and attendant issues.Just as the government had ran through the three farm laws in September 2020 without any proper discussion and scrutiny by the

THERE are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen. In keeping with this adage, Indian kisans wrote a new chapter in history defying all prophecies of imminent defeat and canards claiming that the united kisan movement was petering out. The united kisan struggle with the unprecedented support of the working class and the masses has won a historic victory forcing the arrogant Narendra Modi led BJP government to bend down on its knees, tender an apology to farmers and announce the decision to repeal the three anti-farmer acts.

   IN Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu, amidst heavy rains, two important events took place on November 19. One is the unveiling of a bronze statue of Karl Marx and the other is the massive convention demanding a separate legislation to curb honour crimes.When the district committee took the decision of erecting a statue of Karl Marx, it came up with the novel idea of collecting brass vessels from the Party members and their families and create funds from their sale.

COMMUNIST Party of India (Marxist) general secretary, Sitaram Yechury on Friday, November 19, said the protesting farmers have succeeded in forcing an "obdurate" prime minister and his government to bend and accept their demand of repealing the "three black laws".Yechury said this at a press conference in Delhi, hours after the prime minister, Narendra Modi said the centre has decided to repeal the three agriculture laws, which the farmers have been protesting since November 26, 2020, under the leadership of Samyukta  Kisan Morcha (SKM), terming it "anti-farmer''."This is a huge victory for

THE grave terror situation in BJP-ruled Tripura has by this time attracted the attention of the entire country. Democratic rights of common people are denied and trampled down; any dissenting voice is muted by rude force. Media persons, intellectuals and even doctors, engineers and officers – all are under wrath of the ruling party miscreants. In a word, Indian constitution is just not in operation in this tiny state of Tripura. CPI(M), being the prime opposition force has to bear the brunt of the attack most. Hundreds of Party offices have been gutted, bulldozed or severely ransacked.