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CPI(M) Demands Scrapping of Unconstitutional MoUs

CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury, has written a letter to the chief election commissioner, Election Commission of India, on October 19, 2022, demanding scrapping of MoUs signed by Gujarat Election Commissioner with industrial units to monitor electoral participation of the workforce. Below we publish the text of the letter.THIS is to draw you attention to the extremely shocking news report (Indian Express, October 19, 2022) that "for the first time, over 1,000 corporate houses in Gujarat have signed agreements with the Election Commission (EC), und

CPI(M) and CPV Bilateral Meeting

THE Communist Party of India (Marxist) had an online bilateral meeting with the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) on June 29, 2022. The CPI(M) delegation was led by Sitaram Yechury, general secretary and consisted of Nilotpal Basu, Polit Bureau member and R Arun Kumar, Central Committee member. The CPV delegation was led by Vo Van Thuong, Polit Bureau member, and standing member of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee’s (CPVCC) secretariat.

LEFT PARTIES CALL: All India Protest against Price Rise and Unemployment from May 25-31

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.

Repealing farm laws: Protesting farmers forced 'obdurate' PM to bend: Yechury

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

Hold Protests against hike in Petroleum Prices: Yechury

SPEAKING over the precarious economic situation of the people in the country, Sitaram Yechury, general secretary of CPI(M) said that the BJP has no concern for peoples’ welfare. Almost every day the prices of petroleum products are raised. This has led to a cascading effect on the economy. Prices of essential items have increased due to these policies. The Party has given a call to hold protests in the country against price rise and all units across the country will hold demonstrations.  

Communist Party of Ireland Expresses Solidarity with CPI (M)

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

Complacency, Insufficient Preparation led to the present Holocaust: Lancet

“INDIA’S Covid -19 emergency”,  with this heading, The Lancet, one of the most prestigious international medical journals published its editorial dated May 8, 2021, indicting the Modi government of complacency, insufficient preparation to meet the challenges of the second wave of the pandemic.Below we produce the text of the editorial:The scenes of suffering in India are hard to comprehend.

Budget 2021-22: Neither for the People nor the Economy: Yechury

“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

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