Why Right-wing Governments are against Right to Work?

The dismantling of the world’s largest demand-based employment guarantee scheme, MNREGA, marks a shift from rights-based welfare programmes that value dignity of labour and responsibility of the state in providing employment to right-wing welfare schemes that invoke arbitrary discrimination and rest on feudal benevolence.

Polit Bureau Statements

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statements

Condemn BJP Government’s Disgraceful Position on Venezuela

The Modi led BJP government’s response to the blatant aggression against Venezuela and the abduction of its President and wife by the United States armed forces, is craven and unworthy of India’s long held position of defence of independence and sovereignty of nations.

Left Parties Call for Protests Against US Aggression

Communist Party of India (Marxist), Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation, Revolutionary Socialist Party, and All India Forward Bloc issued the following joint statement condemning US aggression on Venezuela on January 04, 2026.

WE strongly denounce and condemn the US aggression against Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. This is an attack carried out against a sovereign nation in blatant violation of the UN Charter.

Remembering Safdar Hashmi: When Theatre Becomes Resistance

In the biting cold of January 1 this year, hundreds of local residents — women, men, and children alike — came together at Ambedkar Park in Jhandapur to honour the memory of Safdar Hashmi on the 37th anniversary of his martyrdom. Braving the harsh weather, they gathered not just to remember a man, but to reaffirm the values he lived and died for.

Gig Economy - A Challenge to Trade Union Movement

A SURVEY by the CITU’s Telangana state unit has revealed the problems and precariousness of gig workers who have been growing rapidly in numbers. Gig workers, including those who work for platforms such as Uber, Ola, Zomato, Blinkit and Porter, do not have minimum security and are subjected to severe exploitation. In addition to those who depend completely on ‘gig’ work, the number of those who work part time on these platforms is also increasing. Young women are also entering this field. There are 8-10 lakh gig workers in Telangana.

Reflections of Global Media on India: Close Encounters-NYT Wakes Up to RSS

JOURNALISTS of the New York Times (NYT) spent a year investigating the RSS, speaking to its leaders as well as common members to bring out an expose of the “far-right Hindu nationalist group” which has moved from the fringes to centre stage in India ever since its pracharak Narendra Modi became the country’s prime minister nearly 12 years ago.

CITU 18th Conference calls for: “Converting the Crisis to Heightened Consciousness for Social Change”

THE 18th Conference of CITU was held at Visakhapatnam, the Port City of Andhra Pradesh from December 31, 2025 to January 4, 2026. This triennial session, the apex body of CITU, was preceded by the state conferences that elected the 1307 delegates to the all-India Conference from 25 States/UTs and the Centre. Fraternal delegates from AIKS, AIAWU and middle-class organisations attended the Conference. Women delegates were 24 per cent, slightly better than last time, though the target was 28 per cent.

Labour Codes: Squeezing Wages to Raise Profits

On 21 November, 2025, the central government notified the four Labour Codes with the objective of bringing ‘flexibility’ into the world of labour. In response, workers and peasants across the country came out onto the streets, burned copies of the four Labour Codes; they have already started preparing for a General Strike.

Repeal of MGNREGA not a reform but a war on the poor

The BJP-led government has repealed the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005, and in its place, has pushed through Parliament a new Bill titled Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Grameen). The government claims that this new law -- VB–G RAM (G) -- is part of its vision of Viksit Bharat.

Purna Swaraj, Communists and Hindutva Brigade

The adoption of the Purna Swaraj (complete independence) resolution by the Indian National Congress (INC) was a significant move in the saga of India's independence movement. At its forty-fourth session (December 26, 1929 – January 1, 1930), held in Lahore under the president ship of Jawaharlal Nehru, INC officially approved this resolution for the first time. On December 27, Gandhiji moved the resolution for complete independence at the Subject Committee meeting.

Search form

Peoples Democracy newsletter