The general secretary of CPI(M), Sitaram Yechury, has written a letter to the chief election commissioner, Election Commission of India on October 14, 2022 demanding withdrawal of the proposed amendment to the model code of conduct on promises made in election manifestos. Below we publish the text of the letter.

The Left parties – Communist Party of India (Marxist), Communist Party of India, All India Forward Bloc, Revolutionary Socialist Party, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)- Liberation – issued the following statement on May 14, 2022UNABATED galloping price rise is imposing unprecedented burdens on the people. Crores are suffering and are pushed into deeper poverty with growing hunger pangs.

COMMUNIST Party of India (Marxist) general secretary, Sitaram Yechury on Friday, November 19, said the protesting farmers have succeeded in forcing an "obdurate" prime minister and his government to bend and accept their demand of repealing the "three black laws".Yechury said this at a press conference in Delhi, hours after the prime minister, Narendra Modi said the centre has decided to repeal the three agriculture laws, which the farmers have been protesting since November 26, 2020, under the leadership of Samyukta  Kisan Morcha (SKM), terming it "anti-farmer''."This is a huge victory for

Below we publish the statement issued by the general secretary of the Communist Party of Ireland, Eugene McCartan, on September 17.WORKERS apart from fighting for economic reasons through trade unions organised into political parties to fight for political power.  As the crisis of the system grows across the globe we are witnessing growing attacks on workers organisations and in particular on communist parties.  The latest is the state organised attacks on members and property of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). The deliberate targeting of the CPI(M) by the ruling BJP because it has

“PEOPLE are suffering from a double whammy; the pandemic has worsened the lives of the people and the budget proposals will further accentuate their miseries,” said Sitaram Yechury, general secretary of CPI(M), while addressing an online press conference on February 2, 2021.He said the much-professed V-shaped recovery of the economy by the central government is absolutely false, and if at all there is going to be a recovery, it will be K shaped, meaning that the rich will become richer and poor poorer.He made five important points while deriding the budget as a ‘pro-corporate gift’, robbing