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The Scapegoating of Peasants for Pollution Crisis
Image via India Today on X, November 28, 2025 By Srujana Bodapati It is that time of year again when India’s national capital Delhi’s air quality turned acutely hazardous. Official Indian air quality indicators hit their maximum adverse readings of 500, while indices based on international norms shoot past 1,000 or even 2,000 —a level that effectively turned the city into a gas chamber. The thick smog, loaded with toxic gases, seeps into every corner of the city, including in

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2 days ago7 min read


CPI(M) demands immediate withdrawal of new Indian Labour Codes
Protest against the new labour codes -- image via the CPI(M) on Facebook The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement: Revoke Labour Code The CPI(M) Polit Bureau strongly opposes the unilateral notification of the four Labour Codes by the BJP-led Central Government. The Labour Codes dismantle 29 hard-won labour laws that have, till now, protected the workers to some extent. Despite many limitations, to an extent the wages, wor

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6 days ago2 min read


Communist Party of Sri Lanka condemns Military MOU with the United States
Image via the US ambassador to Sri Lanka on X On the NPP Government’s Military MOU with the United States The Communist Party of Sri Lanka strongly condemns the NPP government for entering into a new military Memorandum of Understanding with the United States National Guard under the so-called State Partnership Program (SPP). This agreement between the Sri Lankan Armed Forces and the Montana National Guard represents another step in the militarisation of the ‘Indo-Pacific’ an

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Nov 202 min read


Imperialism Today: The Struggle Forward
Trump at Fort Bragg, 2025 -- public domain image By D. Raja, General Secretary, Communist Party of India Imperialism today no longer requires colonies in the traditional sense. It governs through networks of finance, data, and technology — invisible chains binding nations to the logic of capital accumulation. The world that emerged from the ashes of the Cold War falsely promised unending prosperity under the banner of globalisation and neo-liberalism. What we have instead is

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Nov 145 min read


Left-ruled Kerala becomes the first Indian state to eradicate extreme poverty
The Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Democratic Alliance (LDF) government achieves a unique feat in India which, according to the World Bank, has the world’s largest number of extremely poor. Housing built as part of the poverty eradication program -- video screenshot image via the CPI(M) on Facebook By Abdul Rahman, People's Dispatch On Saturday, November 1, India’s southern state of Kerala officially declared itself free of extreme poverty. This makes the left-ru

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Nov 33 min read


India’s American Dream in Tatters
Modi and Trump at the White House, February 15, 2025 -- public domain image By Srujana Bodapati The last couple of months have exposed the humiliating realities of the subordinate alliance that India has been gradually sliding into with the U.S. over the last three decades. The imposition of 50 percent tariffs on Indian exports to the U.S., calls on the European Union to impose 100 percent tariffs on India, the revocation of the U.S. sanctions waiver for the operation of Iran

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Oct 134 min read


Indian Companies Complicit in Israel’s Genocide of the Palestinians
Far-Right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich at a signing ceremony in India, September, 2025 -- image via X By Sudhanva Deshpande...

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Oct 16 min read


Five theses on the situation in Nepal
Scene from the protests in Kathmandu, Nepal in September 2025. Photo via People's Dispatch By Vijay Prashad and Atul Chandra If your...

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Sep 157 min read


VS Achuthanandan: The Epic Life of a Communist Turning the Tiller Proletariat
Funeral procession of V. S. Achuthanandan, 22 July 2025 -- Rohit B, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By Nidheesh J. Villatt I vividly remember...

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Sep 125 min read


CPI(M) condemns visit of far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich to India
Smotrich at a signing ceremony -- image via X Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M))- Condemn the Visit of Smotrich, Israeli Finance...

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Sep 91 min read


Elephant & Dragon Choose Dialogue: Why the SCO Reset Matters for India, China, and the Global South
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping on August 31, 2025 -- Prime Minister's Office (GODL-India),...

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Sep 86 min read


India's Communists mourn Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy
Image via the CPI Communists in India are mourning the death of Comrade Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy, former General Secretary of the...

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Aug 232 min read


Popular movements in India and Vietnam launch Cuba solidarity campaigns on Fidel’s birthday
The people in the region extended their solidarity with the Cuban people who have been fighting against the US economic blockade for...

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Aug 153 min read


Pressure from progressives forces Indian authorities to allow protest against Israel’s genocide in Gaza
The Bombay High court had previously agreed with police version of terming the pro-Palestinian protests illegal and even questioned...

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Aug 144 min read


India's Communists condemn Trump's bullying
Trump in June, 2025 -- public domain image Both the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Communist Party of India have issued...

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Aug 72 min read


India's Communists condemn Trump tariff threats
Trump on July 30 -- public domain image Both the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Communist Party of India have issued...

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Aug 12 min read


India's Communists remember Comrade V. S. Achuthanandan
Achuthanandan campaigning for the LDF in Kerala, 2016 -- Praveenp, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via...

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Jul 213 min read


CPI Condemns NATO Chief’s Threats to India, China, and Brazil
Mark Rutte in June, 2025 -- Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Press Release CPI Condemns NATO...

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Jul 171 min read


Congratulations to Working Class on Successful General Strike!: CPI(M)
The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement: Congratulations to Working Class on...

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Jul 101 min read


250 million Indian workers and farmers on the streets in a national strike
The strike was called by the trade unions and farmers groups against anti-workers labor codes and failures of the government to enact a...

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Jul 94 min read
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