India-China Friendship Highlighted at CPC 105th Anniversary Seminar

The Chinese Embassy in New Delhi hosted a seminar to mark the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC). The seminar was attended by leaders of Left parties, diplomats, academics and other distinguished guests. CPI(M) General Secretary M A Baby, Polit Bureau member and Head of the International Department R Arun Kumar and Central Secretariat member V Muralidharan represented the Party at the event.

Thousands of Adivasis Rally Demanding Restoration of Tribal Reservations and Protection of Rights

Thousands of Adivasis from across the Integrated Tribal Development Agency region converged on Paderu, the headquarters of Alluri Sitarama Raju district, on July 17 to demand the restoration of tribal reservations, protection of constitutional safeguards, and fulfillment of election promises made to tribal communities.

Open Biology and AI: Need for the Global South

ON 9 July 2026, researchers from US universities published a paper in the top-rated journal Science describing a powerful new AI tool for biomedical research. A year earlier, they had made the initial manuscript available as open access to all by publishing it on bioRxiv, an online repository, and making the software available on GitHub, an online platform for researchers to share code.

Disenfranchising Citizens: Mode of Capital’s Control

DISENFRANCHISING citizens is a mode of control by which the state categorises and hierarchises individuals in the scale of distribution of rights and justice. It has two specific dimensions; one is control by the economy of security and fear and the other is not only excluding the surplus from the realm of production but also invisiblising them from the sphere of entitlements and rights. Defining and redefining citizens is one of the instruments of power by which the economy of security operates.

The Ceasefire Is Not Dead: Trump’s War, Iran’s Resistance, and the Return to Negotiations

WHEN US president Donald Trump announced that the ceasefire with Iran was over and ordered a new round of attacks, he attempted to present the resumption of violence as the inevitable consequence of Iranian misconduct. The reality was more complicated. The ceasefire had not been a peace agreement between two reconciled powers, but an armed truce between a United States determined to constrain Iran and an Iranian state determined to preserve its sovereignty, its nuclear energy rights, its missile capability, and its regional influence.

Three Bills That Could Change Who Governs

THREE bills moved together through Parliament in August 2025, and taken separately, each look almost technical. The Constitution (One Hundred and Thirtieth Amendment) Bill, 2025 deals with what happens to a chief minister or prime minister who is arrested. The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2025 and the Government of Union Territories (Amendment) Bill, 2025 extend a similar logic to other Union Territories.

"SAMRAT" rule in Bihar

A non-RSS face of BJP ruling Bihar is proving himself more loyal to the RSS mandated politics to run Bihar than the true blue Shakha trained RSS pracharak can be. Just after being declared as the Chief Minister of Bihar, Mr Samrat Chowdhary started copying the bulldozer style of governance of Yogi ji next door.

Massive Madurai Rally Vows to Defeat Draconian FCRA Amendments

A MASSIVE wave of public resistance surged through Madurai as thousands of people gathered at the Palanganatham roundabout on July 3 for a historic state-level special conference organised by the Tamilnadu Minority People’s Welfare Forum.

Maha: Camp for Social Justice and against Communalism Held

The CPI(M) in Maharashtra held a three-day state camp for social justice and against communalism on July 3-5, 2026 at Kavthemahankal in Sangli district of western Maharashtra. It was attended by 252 comrades from 24 districts, 31 of them women. A 90-page booklet of the notes of this camp was given to all participants. After the flag hoisting by veteran leader Narasayya Adam and floral tributes to martyrs, CPI(M) state committee member Umesh Deshmukh welcomed all the participants.

Government Starving the Poor To Appease Finance

INDIA has had for some time one of the largest public distribution systems in the world for foodgrains. Its core is the Antyodyay Anna Yojana (AAY) which covers around 75 percent of the rural population and 50 percent of the urban population, and provides 35 kilogrammes of foodgrains per month to each beneficiary household at subsidised prices.

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