Stop Silencing Dissenting Voices

THE All India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) has, in a statement issued on June 17, condemned the Delhi Lieutenant Governor's decision to sanction the prosecution of author-activist Arundhati Roy and Professor Showkat Hussain. The action is based on a 14-year-old FIR, which AIDWA describes as a vindictive and repressive attempt to silence dissenting voices.

AI and Employment

THE fundamental issue raised by Hollywood writers when they had gone on a strike against being replaced by artificial intelligence, somehow receded to the background after the resolution of that particular conflict; but it remains a fundamental issue.

TN: Protest Rally against Genocide in Palestine

IN response to the call from the Central Committee of the CPI(M), the Tamil Nadu state committee organised protest rallies across the state on June 2. In Chennai, the protest rally was organised by three district committees, starting from Chindadripet. The rally saw the participation of hundreds of youth and Party cadres.

BJP and Allies Face Defeat in Tamil Nadu

AS part of its political strategy, the BJP has consistently tried to establish a presence in Tamil Nadu through various methods. However, unlike other states in southern India, the people of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry have once again made it abundantly clear that they do not welcome the saffron party on their soil, regardless of the tactics used or promises made.

SKM Hails Defeat of Union Minister Ajay Misra Teni, Demands Criminal Prosecution

The farmers’ collective congratulates voters for punishing BJP by denying it single party majority, flags drubbing in rural areas of Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan.THE Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), the farmers’ collective that led the year-long protest against the now repealed three farm laws, has congratulated the people of India, especially those in rural belts, for ensuring that the “anti-farmer and anti-worker” Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) did not get single-party majority.In a press statement issued on June 5, SKM said: “The people have severely punished the Modi led

FIR Against ‘The Caravan’ Journalists Condemned

The journalists were reporting in Bhajanpura area of Northeast Delhi on a complaint filed by a victim of the communal violence in February 2020.THE Press Club of India (PCI) and the Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ) have strongly condemned an FIR against journalists of the magazine, The Caravan, in the Bhajanpura Police Station in Northeast Delhi, under serious sections in a four-year-old case of alleged assault on the journalists themselves.

Polit Bureau Communique

CPI(M) Polit Bureau met in New Delhi on June 9. It has issued the following statement on June 10, 2024 ELECTIONS TO THE 18TH LOK SABHAThe results of the elections to the 18th Lok Sabha constitute a significant setback for the BJP. The people of India, asserting their defence of the constitution and the secular democratic character of the republic, have deprived the BJP of a majority it had secured in the last two Lok Sabha elections of 2014 and 2019.

COMRADE PANDIT MUNDE

COMRADE Pandit Munde, a former member of the CPI(M) Maharashtra state committee, former secretary of the Aurangabad district committee, and founder-president of the CITU in Aurangabad, passed away at the age of 79 on May 28, 2024.Born in a poor peasant family in Beed district on June 12, 1945, he completed his graduation in commerce and in 1973 joined as a teacher at the Vasantrao Naik College in Aurangabad.

Remembering Joseph Thomas, The Founding President of FSMI

COMRADE Joseph Thomas, who passed away last year, was the first president of the Free Software Movement of India (FSMI). Joseph Thomas and I go back a long way: we were almost the same age, and relatively old among the FSMI activists.Joseph Thomas was clear that in the free software movement, we cannot focus only on software; we also need to address issues of hardware on which free software can run. It was a welcome corrective. What he was telling us at that time is what many of us know today: free software cannot work unless we look at the hardware as well.

CPI(M) Condemns Reasi Terror Attack

THE CPI(M) Jammu and Kashmir state committee, in a statement issued on June 10, has condemned the terrorist attack on a bus carrying pilgrims in Reasi district in which nine persons were killed, and 33 others were injured.

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