Immediately Stop this Genocide of Palestinians

Enable GingerThe Left parties – CPI(M), CPI, CPI(ML), AIFB and RSP – have issued the following statement on November 11THE Left Parties are strongly critical of the Modi government for its refusal to join the global call for an immediate ceasefire at the India-US 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue.Left Parties had earlier urged the Modi government to stop endorsing US-Israeli genocide. At the 2+2 dialogue, there was a call for “humanitarian pause”, with India reiterating a 2-State solution.

Comrade Basudeb Acharia

Enable GingerCPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on November 13, 2023THE Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) expresses its profound grief at the death of veteran communist, parliamentarian and trade union leader, Basudeb Acharia. He died today at Hyderabad where he was admitted to a hospital owing to age-related illness. He was 81.Born on July 11, 1942, in Purulia, Acharia was involved in politics from his student life. He left his job as a school teacher and became a full time worker of the Party.

Comrade N Sankariah

Enable GingerCPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on November 15, 2023THE Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) expresses deep grief at the passing away of Comrade N Sankariah, veteran leader of the CPI(M) and one of the oldest Communist leaders of the country. He was 102 years old.Sankariah, as a student of the American College in Madurai, joined the freedom struggle. He was arrested just before his final examinations and thus could not get his degree.

The Biggest Palestine Solidarity March in London

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×ON November 11, London witnessed the largest of the marches in solidarity with Palestine. Nearly 8,00,000 people marched together from Hyde Park in Central London to the US embassy, demanding immediate ceasefire in Gaza. This, in fact, is the third march organised in London in three weeks – each march bigger than the one held the earlier week.

Madhya Pradesh: Sick under BJP Rule

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×MADHYA Pradesh is a state ruled longest by the BJP after Gujarat. The BJP has ruled the state from 2002 till now with a one and a half year interruption of a Congress government (which was toppled through defections).

Massive Meeting in Kozhikode in Solidarity with Palestine

THE CPI(M) Kerala state committee held a massive rally and public meeting extending solidarity with Palestine, in Kozhikode on November 11, the death anniversary of Yasser Arafat, the former president of the Palestinian National Authority.

Com Sankaraiah Continues to Inspire And Guide Activists across Generations

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×Paying homage to Comrade N Sankaraiah, People’s Democracy reproduces an article on N Sankaraiah written by G Ramakrishnan, CPI(M) Polit Bureau member, on the occasion of his birth centenary. This article was published by People’s Democracy in the issue dated July 18, 2021.BORN on July 15, 1922, Comrade N Sankaraiah, widely known as NS, enters the hundredth year of his life on July 15, 2021.

Towards Socialism of the Twenty-First Century

THE collapse of the Soviet Union was a sigh of relief to the imperialist forces of the world who were desperately trying to suffocate the emerging alternative that in a lightning pace not only could achieve the growth and development of the advanced economies of the world but more importantly could offer an alternative system against the global hegemony of capital.In 1931, Stalin remarked that Russia was about fifty to hundred years behind the level of growth of productive forces achieved by advanced capitalist countries and that gap needs to be covered within ten years.

AP: People’s Movements are the Key

THE two-month-long campaign ‘Praja Rakshana Bheri,’ undertaken by the CPI(M) Andhra Pradesh state committee, concluded with a huge rally and public meeting in Vijayawada on November 15. The mass rally commenced from BRTS road, with thousands of volunteers in red attire, accompanied by cultural squads presenting folk arts and fancy dress displays illustrating the plight of the people and mocking government policies. The rally continued for about half an hour, culminating at MB Stadium, where the public meeting was convened, that was presided over by Party state secretary V Srinivasa Rao.

Annual Air Pollution Festival

SO here we are once again, regular like the seasons, with Delhi and the entire Indi-Gangetic plains right down to West Bengal shrouded in a grey haze of pollutants as visible in photographs from space. 13 of the world’s 20 worst polluted cities or towns in the world are in India, including Delhi, satellite towns and other urban centres in northern and eastern India. This has now become such a hardy and recurrent annual feature that it may as well be declared yet another festival of which we already have so many in this country.

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