CPIM Tollygunge-1 Area Committee

৭০ দশকের আধা-ফ্যাসিস্ত সন্ত্রাসের বলি শহীদ কমরেডদের স্মৃতির প্রতি শ্রদ্ধা জানিয়ে আজ আজাদগড়ে শহীদ স্মরণ সমাবেশ।
প্রথমে শহীদ বেদীতে মাল্যদান, তারপর বক্তব্য রাখলেন #সিপিআইএম কলকাতা জেলা সম্পাদকমণ্ডলীর অন্যতম সদস্য কমরেড সুব্রত দত্ত, পূর্ব মেদিনীপুর জেলার পার্টি নেতা কমরেড পরিতোষ পট্টনায়েক এবং প্রাক্তন সর্বভারতীয় নেত্রী কমরেড দীপ্সিতা ধর॥
সভাপতিত্ব করেন টালিগঞ্জ ১ এরিয়া কমিটির সম্পাদক কমরেড মমতা সাহা॥

CPI(M) Protest at ED Headquarters Against the Raid on Former Kerala Chief Minister Comrade Pinarayi Vijayan’s Residence; Protesters, Including Senior Leaders, Detained by Police

The denounces the ED raid on Comrade Pinarayi Vijayan’s residence. This is a targeted attack on a top opposition leader by the BJP government. Such actions will not intimidate Pinarayi Vijayan or the . Is the UDF government complicit in this raid ?
- CPI(M) General Secretary M A Baby
Communist Party of India (Marxist)

শহীদ স্মরণে আপন মরণে রক্ত ঋণ শোধ করো !

প্রতি বছরের ন্যায় এবছরও আমরা স্মরণ করতে চলেছি সত্তর দশকের আধা-ফ্যাসিস্ত সন্ত্রাসের বলি শহীদ কমরেড সুধাংশু দত্ত, কমরেড ভবতোষ দত্ত, কমরেড প্রদীপ মুখার্জী, কমরেড তপন মজুমদার ও কমরেড পরিমল দত্ত কে, আগামী ২৯ মে (শুক্রবার) আজাদগড়ে শহীদ বেদী সংলগ্ন স্থানে। ঐ দিন অমর শহীদদের স্মরণে শহীদ বেদী তে মাল্যদানের পাশাপাশি এক মহতি জনসভার আয়োজন করা হয়েছে।
উক্ত জনসভায় প্রধান বক্তা হিসেবে উপস্থিত থাকবেন ভারতের কমিউনিস্ট পার্টি (মার্কসবাদী), কেন্দ্রীয় কমিটির সদস্য কমরেড মীনাক্ষী মুখার্জী। এছাড়াও বক্তব্য রাখবেন পার্টির নেতা কমরেড পরিতোষ পট্টনায়েক এবং কমরেড সুব্রত দত্ত॥

We denounce the shocking and illegal US indictment of the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Raúl Castro Ruz.

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), which is
meeting from 22-24 May in HKS Surjeet Bhawan, New Delhi, has unanimously
adopted the following resolution against US threats to Cuba:

Today marks the 136th birth anniversary of the great Vietnamese revolutionary Ho Chi Minh, who led the struggle against the Japanese and French colonialists and the victorious war of resistance against US occupation. Ho Chi Minh built the Communist Party in Vietnam and led the people to victory against both native and foreign oppressors, inspiring whole generations of youth across the world and rearing them in anti-imperialism.

Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh !
We Shall Fight, We Shall Win !

The latest editorial of Peoples Democracy.

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.

Cashing in on what his party has achieved, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been prompt. Celebrating the outcome, he quickly reacted, claiming that “this is not just an electoral shift, but a change in the people’s mindset”. An inseparable aspect of his assertion is based on the defeat of the LDF in Kerala and the first-time assumption of office by BJP in West Bengal, where the Left had an earlier uninterrupted run for 34 long years. Perhaps no less important is the enlargement of the scale of victory for the BJP in Assam where its strength has crossed the century mark.

In Kerala, the LDF had achieved the unthinkable in the 2021 election by returning to office. This was a major break from the traditional voting preferences in the politically vibrant state. Therefore, despite the excellent record of pro-people governance with holistic development of the state, the inherent double anti-incumbency and the inclination for a change came to prevail. The valiant effort of the Left to stave off the challenge could not succeed in winning over additional sections of people from the influence of forces that pursue a narrower identity driven objective. No less was the political opportunism of the Indian National Congress which, for its narrow electoral benefit, stooped so low as to carry out a canard alleging a nonexistent CPI(M)-BJP bonhomie. Therefore, far from how Modi is trying to interpret the electoral outcome, heavily alluding to LDF’s defeat in Kerala, both the Sangh’s self-proclaimed Swayamsevak and the Congress party will find that the Left will muster the strength to rise from this electoral setback. It will prove no less equal to other democratic and secular forces to take on the Hindutva challenge.

In West Bengal, the story was far more sinister. Those who have read the political trajectory, history stands witness to the sinister game that the RSS and Hindutva forces played in the late 1990s to split the Congress and prop up the TMC as a broad platform of resistance to the Left. It is the greatest irony that the extremely strong anti-incumbency of the same TMC led government for the last 15 years had created a fertile ground for the Hindutva forces and BJP to move in to capture power. A powerful campaign was carried out to reinforce communal polarisation based on the question of infiltration from across the border and the developments within Bangladesh to step up a massive anti-minority phobia. This of course could succeed because of the TMC regime’s electoral opportunism of legitimising the role of religion in politics with distinct promotion of communal forces. But the story of West Bengal will remain incomplete unless proper lessons are drawn about the role of the Election Commission of India and its obnoxious Special Intensive Revision of the Electoral Roll.

Without any fear of contradiction, it is now patently clear that apart from securing electoral advantages for the BJP, the SIR exercise has also unleashed questions which will continue to haunt the larger societal and identity issues. It is now proved that 27 lakh people who were mapped with the 2002-03 rolls which was the benchmark for qualification under SIR, hang in a suspended animation. They continue in this weird category of ‘under adjudication’, based on simply the use of an untested software, denied of their constitutional right to vote. The Chief of the Judicial Tribunal, a former Chief Justice of the Kolkata High Court, resigned immediately after the elections with a strong indictment that despite almost 100 per cent validation of approximately 1,500 names, it would take not less than four years to complete the adjudication exercise. What more proof was needed that it was the Election Commission which is squarely responsible for the denial of the constitutional right of so many people – ineptitude at the least and malafide at the most!

Assam also saw an unprecedented level of communal provocation from the incumbent Chief Minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma, taking recourse to a deeply divisive ploy in the ethnic and communally fragile circumstances of the state. The attempt was so vile and brazen that many constitutional experts and eminent citizens without any partisan political persuasion, were forced to come out with the clearest condemnation.

Tamil Nadu saw a change of a different type where a new force questioning the conventional political alignment sustained by the two Dravidian parties, emerged. How far the new dispensation who despite the popular support was being sought to be denied a shot at the office by the RSS-BJP appointed governor will play out remains to be seen. It was due to the timely intervention of the secular democratic forces including the CPI(M) and the Left, that the mischief could be stopped. Equally, the formation of the new government could be insulated from BJP’s ally, AIADMK, from manipulating the entire process.

There should not be any doubt whatsoever that behind the veneer of claims of ideological hegemony, the Modi government will go no holds barred to pursue its neofascist goals, taking advantage of this post-poll situation. That the working class and other labouring sections will have to bear the brunt of this new offensive, is clear. Actualisation of the new Labour Codes and the closure of MGNREGA with the implementation of the VBGRAMG are clear pointers.

The other dark cloud is the Prime Minister’s admission of the precarious condition of the Indian economy, particularly the state of energy security. They call it by different names – ‘tightening the belt’ and ‘austerity’. Such is the opulent life style of the Prime Minister himself that this reference to austerity appears to be a sick joke! Nevertheless, the new situation after the election undoubtedly poses an extremely serious challenge. The battle will now be fought on the streets, on livelihood and forging the broadest possible unity to salvage our people’s well-being and the Constitution.

(May 13, 2026)