The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement on February 08, 2026
As details of the Indo–US trade deal slowly emerge, it is becoming evident that the BJP-led Union government has made sweeping concessions to the United States in the so-called ‘interim deal’. These concessions pose a serious threat to India’s economy, agriculture, and national sovereignty.
GANDHI Memorial Day (January 30) was observed as Anti-Religious Chauvinism Day by the Tamil Nadu Platform for People’s Unity in more than 30 districts across the state.
At every programme, the day was marked by a collective pledge taken by all participants. The text of this pledge is as follows:
THE Overseas Mobility (Facilitation and Welfare) Bill, 2025, which the Union Government intends to table in the ongoing Budget Session of Parliament, arrives not as a shield for the vulnerable, but as a legislative auction block where the Indian working class is sold to the highest bidder. This Bill represents an institutionalized betrayal, a premeditated retreat by the State from its fundamental duty to protect its citizens.
EVEN as the brouhaha over the dramatic appearance of Mamata Banerjee to argue her petition against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal by the Election Commission of India (ECI) dies down, Mostari Banu is tidying her files and preparing for another round of hearings in the Supreme Court.
THE role of US, and specifically of President Donald Trump, is assuming the spectacle of ‘bulldozer’. In India, we are now familiar with the unilateral deployment of ‘bulldozers’ to trample legitimate rights of the weak and the defenceless. In a majoritarian ambience, such display of naked aggression finds loud approval from the bhakt brigade in the social media space.
THE Times of India on February 1, 2026 carried a report datelined Chandigarh drawing attention to the plight of a labourer from Faridabad who was forced to carry his deceased wife’s body home on a vegetable cart because the family had exhausted its funds on medical treatment and could not afford a private ambulance. Another story in the same newspaper three days later reported that in Noida, a family claimed they were denied a shroud and assistance for their deceased 24-year-old unless they paid an extra Rs 3,000 at a post-mortem centre.
The Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) congratulates the workers, farmers and agricultural workers who made the February 12, 2026, All India General Strike a historic and resounding success. Reports received up to 3:00 PM from across the country indicate that several crore people participated in strike action, demonstrations, picketing and solidarity mobilisations. The strike witnessed massive participation from organised and unorganised sectors, public and private enterprises, multinational companies, scheme workers and rural toilers.
The Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ) has expressed shock at a Gujarat court's judgement sentencing leading investigative journalist Ravi Nair to a year in jail. The Mansa court has held Nair guilty of criminal defamation of the Adani group through his various tweets and writings.
The Delhi State Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) organised an immediate protest demonstration today at Jantar Mantar against the objectionable video released from the official Twitter handle of the Bharatiya Janata Party, featuring Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. In the video, he is seen firing a gun while targeting the minority Muslim community.