2025

Communist Party of India
New Delhi,
July 31, 2025
Press Release
CPI Condemns Illegal Attack and Harassment of Nuns and Tribal Youth in Durg, Chhattisgarh
The following statement was issued after the press conference at CPI headquarters at Ajoy Bhawan by CPI National Secretariat member Annie Raja and CPI Kerala Assistant Secretary P.P. Suneer, M.P.:
A press conference was held today at Ajoy Bhawan, the National Headquarters of the Communist Party of India (CPI), addressed by CPI (…)

[August 1, 2025]
Citizens for the Constitution (CFTC) strongly condemns the arrest and continued judicial custody of two Catholic nuns from Kerala, Sister Preety Mary and Sister Vandana Francis, along with Sukaman Mandavi, by the Chhattisgarh Police in Durg on 25th July. The trio has been falsely accused of

[Excerpt from a Press Release]
31 July 2025
Launch of a People

[fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
__0__
Snakes, Drugs and Rock

* Documenting the Predicaments of Bengali Migrant Workers | Arup Kumar Sen
* Governance as if people, democracy and conservation matter | C.R Bijoy
* Hindi vs Marathi and the contest over Indian identity | Mandar Oak
* The Editors Guild of India condoles the death of Sumit Chakravartty

The court

In recent times, tales of brutal treatment and eviction of Bengali migrant workers from different states in India have been reported in the media. Some Muslim workers from Murshidabad district in West Bengal, who went to Mumbai to earn their livelihood, were arrested by the police on June 9, 2025, and brutally tortured in the prison. One of them, Shamim Khan, complained that the police took away his mobile phone, voter identity card and about twenty thousand rupees that he had. Then the (…)

Governance as if people, democracy and conservation matter is embedded in social and environmental justice, expressed through ethics, morality, culture and spirituality. It is an outcome of intense political struggle for deepening democracy. The human species is the only species that organizes production. We organize society in ways that suit the way we organize production. Conservation ethics expresses itself through the ethic of natural resource allocation, their use and protection. The (…)

Was the outgoing Vice President of India Jagdeep Dhankar sacrificed at the altar of the communally surcharged hate spewing Allahabad High Court judge Shekhar Yadav? It seems that saving the skin of that abrasive unapologetic Hindutva judge, who defied the advice of the then Chief Justice of India, to apologise for his perceived misconduct, enjoyed such immunity from this Government that he chose to brazen it out.
A little error of judgement on the part of Dhankar to give voice to the (…)

A long wait for justice
For almost eighteen years, a few prisoners from Telugu-speaking regions have been locked up in different jails in Madhya Pradesh. They are far from their families, friends, relatives