Aftermath of Assembly Elections and the Enormous Challenges

THE results of election for the five assemblies were announced on May 4. The implications are far reaching. Naturally, the challenges arising out of this new situation can be belittled only at our own peril, particularly the future of the secular democratic republic.

CITU Calls for Nationwide Defiance Following Final Notification of all Four Labour Codes

THE Central Government had notified the implementation of the four Labour Codes from November 21, 2025 onwards without heeding the collective opinion of the Central Trade Unions immediately after the BJP victory in the Bihar Assembly Elections. These Codes strike at the heart of workers’ interests and aim at enslaving the workers to squeeze them more brutally. Consequently, on December 30, 2025, the central Labour Ministry had published the draft Central Rules for all four Labour Codes.

AIAWU Rejects Central Government Notification for Implementation of VB-G RAM G

The Ministry of Rural Development has notified the implementation date for Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G). The notification is titled ‘Historic Commencement of VB-G RAM G.’ It is indeed historic in the way this act has been forcibly pushed through parliament and it is historic because it puts an end to the only nationwide demand drive scheme of guaranteed employment – the MGNREGA Act.

Tamil Nadu: Left Support for Secular Govt

IN Tamil Nadu, CPI(M) faced the election as part of the DMK front to defeat the ADMK-BJP alliance in the state. Though the allocation of seats to be contested by us was not satisfactory, five seats offered by DMK were accepted and work was started in the larger interest and the main goal of defeating ADMK-BJP alliance. CPI(M) contested in Padmanabhapuram, Palani, Thiruvotriyur and the two seats won by us in 2021, Keezhvelur and Gandharvakottai. It secured victory in two seats, namely Padmanabhapuram and Keezhvelur.

We Are Not Lovers of Darkness; We Seek to be Its Destroyer

History is not a straight line; it is a rugged path where the eternal conflict between rise and fall, light and shadow, persists. The womb of Fascism breeds a dense, solidified darkness. The world today is passing through such a gloom, which political scientists identify as 'Neo-Fascism.' This is not merely the 1930s story of jackboots and concentration camps; its web is more expansive, and its death-grip more subtle. Thus, today’s struggle is not just of physical might, but parallelly, of the intellect and ideology.

AIKS Extends Full Support to All-India Strike of MGNREGA Workers on 15 May

The All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) has extended its full solidarity and support to the all-India strike of MGNREGA workers on May 15, 2026, jointly called by the Platform of Agricultural and Rural Workers’ Unions and the NREGA Sangharsh Morcha.

Hantavirus: No Borders, Need Solidarity

The species of Andes hantavirus that has been in the news is not likely to affect us in India immediately. So far, that species has existed only in South America and on one cruise ship. Right now, large-scale outbreaks are probably not coming for us. The real threat is not hantavirus. The real threat is the deliberate, systematic dismantling of global and national pandemic preparedness by anti-science regimes in the US and India. The hantavirus outbreak on the cruise ship MV Hondius is not an incoming plague – it's a dress rehearsal, a trial.

What is Economic Development?

WHEN Adam Smith’s opus in 1776 took an increase in wealth as the desideratum of a nation’s policy, he was not suggesting that the question of income distribution between different classes did not matter. Likewise David Ricardo was by no means unconcerned with an improvement in the living conditions of the workers.

Kerala Assembly Elections

The Congress led United Democratic Front (UDF) has secured a comfortable victory in the State Assembly elections, gaining an absolute majority with 102 seats. The LDF managed to win 35 seats, while the NDA secured 3 seats. The UDF repeated the dominance it displayed in the 2025 local body elections in this assembly poll held three months later. Within the UDF, the Congress won 63 seats, the Muslim League 22, and the Kerala Congress 7.

CPI(M) West Bengal Statement on 2026 Assembly Election Results

The election results in West Bengal have been declared. Leveraging communal polarisation, immense financial power and administrative manoeuvring, the BJP is set to form the government by capitalising on the boundless public anger against the TMC regime. Following a preliminary analysis of the overall situation, Md Salim, the State Secretary of the CPI(M) West Bengal State Committee, has issued the following statement.

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