Cockroach Janata Party: Gen Z’s Defiant Rejection of Status Quo

THE rapid, viral rise of the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) across India’s digital landscape warrants a closer look. The movement exploded as a fierce, satirical counter-mobilisation to oral observations made by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant during a Supreme Court hearing.

Resolve AIESL Workers’ Issues, Baby Writes to PM

M. A. Baby, General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has written a letter on May 23, to the Prime Minister, seeking the PM’s intervention to resolve the issue of AIESL workers and uphold passenger safety. The text of the letter is given below.

Shri Narendra Modi,

Honourable Prime Minister

Government of India

New Delhi

Modiji,

ED's Witch-Hunt Against Pinarayi Faces Intense Protest

Following Chief Minister V D Satheesan's visit to Delhi to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) barged into the residences of CPI(M) Polit Bureau member Pinarayi Vijayan on May 27. Giving no consideration even to his status as a former Chief Minister, officials arrived early in the morning at his rented house near Bakery Junction in Thiruvananthapuram and at his ancestral home in Pinarayi, Kannur district.

CPI(M) Protest at ED Headquarters in New Delhi

THE Communist Party of India (Marxist) strongly protested at the Enforcement Directorate (ED) headquarters in New Delhi, on May 27, against the raid conducted by the ED at the residence of former Kerala Chief Minister and CPI(M) Polit Bureau member Pinarayi Vijayan. The protest was led by CPI(M) General Secretary M.A. Baby.

AIKS Extends Solidarity to SKM’s Call to Burn Kharif MSP Order

The following statement has been issued by All India Kisan Sabha on May 25, 2026:

Central Committee Communique

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) met on May 22-24, 2026, in HKS Surjeet Bhavan, New Delhi and issued the following Communique

Assembly Election Results: The Central Committee (CC) had a preliminary discussion on the political, organisational and ideological reasons behind the recent election results.

Ben Gvir, the Flotilla Activists, and the Architecture of Cruelty

THE THEATRE OF PUNISHMENT

Don't Blame Jobless Journos: DUJ to CJI

The Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ) is appalled at the recent remarks of CJI Surya Kant regarding unemployed youth of the country. He reportedly said, to a lawyer arguing before him, that many unemployed people today are cockroaches. The CJI reportedly opined that, “There are already parasites of society who attack the system and you want to join hands with them? There are youngsters like cockroaches, who don’t get any employment and don’t have any place in the profession.

Tripura: Questions Raised Over Funds Collected for School Development

Questions are increasingly being raised by parents and education stakeholders over the utilisation of funds collected from students of Vidyajyoti schools in Tripura under the name of “school development fund”. The issue was also raised in the Tripura Assembly. In a written reply to a question from Leader of the Opposition Jitendra Chaudhury, the education minister informed that a total of Rs 26.56 crore had been collected from students of Vidyajyoti schools during the three financial years from 2023-24 to 2025-26.

In Solidarity with the Countrywide Mass Sit-in of AIESL workers

Workers in a former Air India subsidiary, AIESL and now a PSU under the Ministry of Civil Aviation are on a sit-in in front of their MRO facilities in Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai, Kolkata and Nagpur for the last five days against the brazen anti-worker policies of the management.

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