The US-Zionist axis, the root of all evil in the world today, without any provocation, has again unilaterally attacked Iran in violation of all international laws and conventions. As per information, the Israeli Defence Force, which called the aggression on Iran as operation “Lion’s Roar”, has justified it for “dramatically weaken the regime and its military capabilities.”

It’s a shame for India that Indian Prime Minister was having strategic ideological-political and military engagements in Tel Aviv when the US-Zionist evil axis was coordinating the arrangements for this heinous crime. And the attack took place hours after Modi left Israel after addressing its parliament. Revealingly, on the eve of Modi’s Israel visit, India had also issued an urgent travel advisory for over 10000 Indian citizens in Iran to leave it with immediate effect. Thus, this unprovoked and illegal US-Zionist attack on Iran has exposed India’s unholy links with US-Zionist. As such, the GOI should come forward condemning this flagrant violation of international law by US-Zionist terrorists.

The international Community should rise up and take appropriate steps to stop this aggression before its escalation to a catastrophic situation.

International Department
CPI (ML) Red Star

New Delhi
28. 02. 2026

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As part of the intensifying Hindutva-Zionist nexus, whose shared ideological basis is anti-Muslimness or Islamophobia, India has abstained from the 17 February Joint Statement by 85 Countries at the UN criticising Israel’s tightening illegal control over the West Bank. Among other things, the Statement says: “We strongly condemn unilateral Israeli decisions and measures aimed at expanding Israel’s unlawful presence in the West Bank.” This disgraceful position taken by India is linked with Modi’s scheduled visit to Israel on 25 February and also in view of the Hindutva regime’s renewed servility to the US, as the Trump-led Board of Peace is to meet in Washington.

No doubt, this is not an overnight development. Under the Modi regime, India has been abstaining from a series of UN Resolutions against Israeli criminalities on Palestinians. This has been more specific during the last two years. Instances are October 2023 UNGA that called for an immediate truce in the Israeli-Hamas conflict, December 2023 UN vote seeking legal opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Israel’s “prolonged occupation”, June 2025 UNGA calling for an “immediate, unconditional and permanent” ceasefire in Gaza, etc. Though there had been a post Cold war neoliberal dilution in India’s firm solidarity with Palestine, since the 1990s, the strategic shift in India’s alliance towards the Zionist regime took place with the ascendence of Modi regime in 2014 and Modi’s visit to Israel in 2017 – the first Indian prime minister to do so.

Of course, India had a glorious stance regarding the Palestine question that was inseparably linked up with India’s erstwhile anti-colonial position and solidarity with the oppressed peoples of the world. It was based on this perspective that Mahatma Gandhi, ‘Father of the Nation’, resolutely opposed the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine in 1938 itself , calling it “wrong and inhumane”. He argued that Palestine belonged to the indigenous Arabs and that forcing a state there with imperialist aid was a crime against humanity. Gandhi had unequivocally stated: “Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French”. Gandhi was against Zionism and viewed the Zionist project in Palestine as an imperialist, settler-colonial imposition. To be precise, during the anti-colonial struggle and in the Nehruvian period and as part of the Non-Aligned Movement, India consistently stood in solidarity with the Palestinians and oppressed Arab peoples. For instance, India was the first non-Arab country to recognise the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) in 1974 and among the first to recognise the State of Palestine in 1988.

True, when the broad anti-colonial stream in India remained opposed to Zionism, the RSS, whose ‘cultural nationalism’ is a cover for colonial-imperialist servitude, has been upholding a Hindutva narrative regarding this from its very inception. Both Savarkar and Golwalkar were sympathetic to the Zionist cause and viewed Zionism or political Judaism as a model for the Hindu Rashtra based on the ideology of Hindutva or political Hinduism. Today under the Modi regime led by the BJP, the political tool of RSS, India’s strategic partnership, encompassing economic and military deals, with the Zionist regime are perfectly in tune with this Hindutva perception. And, the clamour for “Hindutva India” and ”Zionist Israel” and strengthening Saffron-Zionist nexus with deeper anti-Muslim ideological underpinnings have become the dominant political discourse in Indian neofascist situation.

Now the Joint Statement by 85 countries has, in essence, exposed Trump’s Board of Peace and opposes Israeli moves under its cover to alter the demographic composition and status of the entire Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem. However Modi regime’s refusal to join this initiative has become ignominious. Revealingly, India is the only founder-member of BRICS that stays out of the initiative which was endorsed even by European Union and Quad partners, including Japan and Australia.

Meanwhile, consequent on widespread criticism and isolation among the comity of nations, as a belated face-saving exercise, and as a second thought, even while remaining out of the Joint Statement by 85 countries, India is reported to have added its name to the list of countries criticising Israel’s unilateral moves on the West Bank. By this ‘face-saving’move’, India avoided a situation of antagonizing both the Zionist regime and the US imperialist master. And, Modi’s upcoming visit to Israel points to a further neofascist reinforcement of the Hindutva-Zionist nexus.

We appeal to all progressive-democratic forces who stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people to come forward against this condemnable pro-Zionist move by the Modi regime.

P J James
General Secretary
CPI (ML) Red Star

New Delhi
19. 02. 2026

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CPI (ML) Red Star salutes the working class, peasants and all exploited and oppressed sections for the country-wide mobilisation and participation in the General Strike on 12 February 2026. According to reports, around 30 crore people from more than 600 districts across India participated in the All India strike.

Together with protests against the four Labour Codes and the Free Trade Deals with US, EU and other imperialist countries, the Charter of Demands included repeal of VB-G RAM G Act, SHANTI Act, Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan Bill, the Draft Seeds Bill, Electricity (Amendment) Bill, etc. that facilitate corporate Hindutva fascism. The strike has its impact on both formal and informal sectors in varying proportions across India.

Meanwhile, while the strike was going on, it’s highly condemnable that the fascist regime pushed through the Industrial Relations Code ( Amendment) Bill 2026 in the Lok Saha, as part of further enhancing “ease of doing business” for the most regressive corporate-crony capitalists. In the guise of avoiding “future unwarranted complication”, the Industrial Relations Code aims at replacing the Trade Unions Act (1926), Industrial Employment Act (1946) and the Industrial Disputes Act (1947). These and other corporate-fascist offensives taking away whatever left of erstwhile pro-worker provisions, call for prolonged and uncompromising protests in the days ahead, from the workers, peasants and all toiling and oppressed masses in the country!

CPI ( ML) Red Star once again congratulates all the workers, peasants and toiling people who made the All India Strike a succes!

P J James
General Secretary
CPI (ML) Red Star

New Delhi
13. 02. 2026

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13th Party Congress of CPI (ML) Red Star

16th – 20th September 2026 at Raichur, Karnataka

The Central Committee of CPI (ML) Red Star that held in Bhubaneswar from 1 – 5 February 2026 resolved to hold Party’s 13th Congress from 16 – 20 September 2026 at Raichur, Karnataka. The Party Congress is being held at a critical juncture when India is under the Fascist stranglehold of RSS, the largest and longest running fascist organization in the world. As such, while the entire country and its resources have gone under the control of the most corrupt crony capitalists who are in unholy nexus with the BJP regime. The working masses of India comprising more than 60 crores, majority of whom are in the unorganized or informal sector, are the most super-exploited in the fascist context today. The Muslims, the largest minority in India, are treated as country’s number one enemy by RSS and hence are being disenfranchised and denied citizenship, and being subjected to all forms of oppression and persecution. The Dalits, who are treated as subhuman under the Brahminical, Sanatan, caste system, are also facing all forms of oppression. Along with the women and all oppressed sections of society are also facing unprecedented deprivation and discrimination. Wherever the fascist ‘double engines’, as in the case of Odisha, are in power, the fascist horrors on the people are all the more gruesome.

It is in this context that CPI (ML) Red Star has been engaged in an uncompromising resistance against RSS fascism since 2014 uniting with all the oppressed including religious minorities, Dalits, Tribals, Women and other sections of the society. Now the Party has decided to hold the 13th Congress along with the All-India anti-fascist task that it has already taken up. Accordingly, the Central Committee of the Party has taken appropriate steps including finalization of its Documents and Political Resolution which are essential pre-requisites for the successful completion of Party Congress.

In its meeting, the Central Committee passed Resolutions against, among other things, the ongoing SIR that is particularly targeted against Muslims, on Modi regime’s abject surrender to US imperialism through the latest trade deal, against the Union Budget that further intensifies far-right neoliberal corporatism, on the Supreme Court’s stay on UGC’s Equity Regulations, abandoning of MGNREGA, opening up of Nuclear Energy sector to the private companies and MNCs and absolving them from all liabilities etc.

The meeting was presided over by Comrade Pramila, Polit Bureau Member and Odisha State Secretary of CPI (ML) Red Star. We appeal to all revolutionaries, Left-Democratic forces and all like-minded sections for their wholehearted cooperation and support at this critical juncture of our country.

P J James
General Secretary
CPI (ML) Red Star
9447153507

Com. Pramila, Phone: 9437206230
Bhubaneswar, Odisha
05.02.2026

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Make the February 12 nationwide strike a success!

The Trade Union Centre of India (TUCI) Central Committee has appealed to the working class of the country and all trade unions to make the February 12 nationwide strike a complete success.
The TUCI Central Committee has called for full participation of all state committees, district committees and affiliated trade unions in this strike.
The economic pact signed by the RSS-Modi government with the US has broken the record of all the treasons that have taken place so far. The Modi government has exchanged the elephant of India’s economic self-reliance with the US imperialist betel nu t. The US has been given the power to increase taxes on Indian products, and duty-free access to American products has been provided to India. As a result, the prices of Indian products have fallen both in the domestic and international markets.
On the contrary, a wide market and high profits have been ensured for American imperialist products in India. This is a dangerous development that will shake the entire economy of the country.
The burden of this betrayal is borne by the working class and the peasantry. The hard work of the workers is worthless, and both the price and market for the farmers’ products are being destroyed. This has caused great economic instability and the working class is in serious distress.
Already, in most areas of the country, workers are fighting a life-and-death struggle for minimum wages, job security and a dignified life. In such a situation, the central government is launching a major attack on the working class through four new labor laws. Similarly, it is taking steps towards abolishing the Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.
It is an urgent need today to transform the February 12 strike across the country into a massive people’s movement against these anti-farmer-labor policies of the government and continue the struggle until victory.
Therefore, the TUCI Central Committee has appealed to all the workers, farmers, progressive organizations and democratic forces of the country to actively participate in this strike and express strong resistance to the anti-people policies of the government.

Sabi Joseph
President

R. Manasayya
General Secretary

Trade Union Centre of India (TUCI)
Central Committee
Bhubaneswar
4-2-2026

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Press Statement: 05-01-2026

Government officials’ Assurance: Temporary end to the dharna of the Land cultivators!

The indefinite dharna led by the Karnataka Raitha Sangha (AIKKS), which had been going on for the past four days on the Gurugunta Highway demanding the granting of title to the Bhager Hukum cultivators of 34 villages in Lingasagur taluk, was temporarily withdrawn today on the specific assurance given by former MLA D. S. Hoolageri and the taluk administration on behalf of the government.
The indefinite dharna movement had started with intense anger against the state government and committee president BJP MLA Manappa Vajjal, who had unfairly cancelled 895 applications of SC, ST and backward classes who had been cultivating government land for decades. For the past two days, two rounds of serious talks were held at the dharna camp between the activists and the revenue and forest officials, mediated by former MLA DS Hoolgeri.
1) Proceeding with the review of rejected applications 2) Cultivation of Parampook, forest, Kharej Khata land should not be stopped 3) Forming Gram Sabhas in 7 Gram Panchayats under the Forest Rights Act-2006 and Calling applications from ST and forest dwellers.
4) Conducting a survey of all lands declared as Parampook – revenue and forest and smoothing the way for regularisation. 5) Not obstructing the roads of all farmers in the forest area.
6) Finding and giving 64 acres of surplus land to 16 beneficiaries of Mallapur village, which was allotted 44 years ago.
7) It was promised that work would be started by February 5th to resolve the demands such as registering cases against forest and government land encroachers and mining mafias. If this promise remained a promise, the government was warned that the highway blockade movement would be started again from February 5th.
The farmers’ struggle was led by R. Manasayya, M. Gangadhar, Gururaj Gowdur, Tipparaja Gejjalagatta, Veerabhadrappa Torlabenchi, Basavaraj Badiger, Aadesh Naganur, Hanumanthappa Pirigara, Chidananda, Tippanna Chikkahesaroor, Hanumanthappa Poojary, Rashid Jamadar, etc.
From the government side, Assistant Commissioner Shri Basavanneppa, DySP Dattatreya Karnad, Tehsildar Sathyaman, Zonal Forest Officer Subhash Chandra Nayak, Block Congress President Govinda Nayak, Police Inspector Chandrashekhar Ganiger etc. were present.
On an average, government land cultivators from 15-20 villages were involved in this struggle. The dharna camp witnessed a big debate in the last two days regarding the cultivation rights and clearance of forest revenue lands.

Basavaraj Badiger
Taluk Secretary
Karnataka Raitha Sangha (AIKKS) Lingasguru, Karnataka

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Government officials’ Assurance: Temporary end to the dharna of the Land cultivators!

The indefinite dharna led by the Karnataka Raitha Sangha (AIKKS), which had been going on for the past four days on the Gurugunta Highway demanding the granting of title to the Bhager Hukum cultivators of 34 villages in Lingasagur taluk, was temporarily withdrawn today on the specific assurance given by former MLA D. S. Hoolageri and the taluk administration on behalf of the government.

The indefinite dharna movement had started with intense anger against the state government and committee president BJP MLA Manappa Vajjal, who had unfairly cancelled 895 applications of SC, ST and backward classes who had been cultivating government land for decades. For the past two days, two rounds of serious talks were held at the dharna camp between the activists and the revenue and forest officials, mediated by former MLA DS Hoolgeri.
1) Proceeding with the review of rejected applications 2) Cultivation of Parampook, forest, Kharej Khata land should not be stopped 3) Forming Gram Sabhas in 7 Gram Panchayats under the Forest Rights Act-2006 and Calling applications from ST and forest dwellers.
4) Conducting a survey of all lands declared as Parampook – revenue and forest and smoothing the way for regularisation. 5) Not obstructing the roads of all farmers in the forest area.
6) Finding and giving 64 acres of surplus land to 16 beneficiaries of Mallapur village, which was allotted 44 years ago.
7) It was promised that work would be started by February 5th to resolve the demands such as registering cases against forest and government land encroachers and mining mafias. If this promise remained a promise, the government was warned that the highway blockade movement would be started again from February 5th.
The farmers’ struggle was led by R. Manasayya, M. Gangadhar, Gururaj Gowdur, Tipparaja Gejjalagatta, Veerabhadrappa Torlabenchi, Basavaraj Badiger, Aadesh Naganur, Hanumanthappa Pirigara, Chidananda, Tippanna Chikkahesaroor, Hanumanthappa Poojary, Rashid Jamadar, etc.
From the government side, Assistant Commissioner Shri Basavanneppa, DySP Dattatreya Karnad, Tehsildar Sathyaman, Zonal Forest Officer Subhash Chandra Nayak, Block Congress President Govinda Nayak, Police Inspector Chandrashekhar Ganiger etc. were present.
On an average, government land cultivators from 15-20 villages were involved in this struggle. The dharna camp witnessed a big debate in the last two days regarding the cultivation rights and clearance of forest revenue lands.

Basavaraj Badiger
Taluk Secretary
Karnataka Raitha Sangha (AIKKS) Lingasguru, Karnataka

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rump Hands off Venezuela!

It is High Time World People Rose up against US Imperialism!

In continuation of dozens of boat strikes, murder of more than a hundred people over the past two months and largest navy build-up, neo-fascist Trump has now unleashed one of the worst aggressions led by US Elite 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment against Venezuela. And, as reported, the US ⁠has ‘captured’ Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro along with his wife Cilia Flores and flown them out of ⁠the country. Details of the casualties and other destruction from the large-scale precision strikes against civilian and military installations are yet to come.

Since his ascent to power, ‘isolationalist’ Trump has been invoking the Monroe Doctrine to bring the entire Americas as “protectorates” under US imperialist diktat. In the process, he had no qualms even to claim Canada as the 51st state of US. Of course, US imperialism considers the entire Latin America as its backyard. And from the very beginning, Trump was eying on the largest oil reserve and $1.36 trillion worth of mineral wealth of Venezuela, as part of bringing the entire natural weath of Latin America and the Caribbean as strategic assets of US, as part of MAGA. With this perspective, Trump administration has been planning a well-thought out ‘regime change’ strategy, labelling Maduro government as “narco-terrorist” and “terrorist drug cartel”, even as many studies have already highlighted the involvement of CIA in world narco business.

As world people know, even while not practicing ‘direct colonialism’, the whole trajectory of US ascendancy as the supreme imperialist power has been filled with naked loot, plunder, genocide and holocausts upon holocausts on innocent people of the world. The terror unleashed by Yankees while exterminating the indigenous people of America had surpassed everything that preceded it. And, after becoming the supreme arbiter of postwar neocolonialism, the horrors committed by US are known to world people. All these make US imperialism the number one terrorist regime and the principal enemy of world people today.

The latest US attack on Venezuela is a blatant and flagrant violation, not only of its sovereignty, but of international law itself. It’s a breach of Article 2(4) of UN Charter of which US imperialism is also a signatory. The entire Latin America and comity of nations should come forward demanding an emergency meeting of UN to discuss this terror attack by US, which is a rogue criminal regime before world people. The world people have to come forward for appropriate measures for the immediate withdrawal of US from Venezuela, ensuring its sovereignty and full right to self-determination.

Down with US imperialism, the Principal Enemy of World People!

International Department

CPI (ML) Red Star

New Delhi
03.01.2026

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Observe the Birth Anniversary of Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule as Teachers’ Day

Comrades and friends,

January 3 marks the birth anniversary of Savitribai Phule, the first pioneer of women’s education in India. Through the dedicated efforts of Savitribai Phule and her husband and fellow educator Mahatma Jyotiba Phule, the first school for girls was opened in Pune on January 1, 1848. In this historic initiative, Savitribai Phule was supported by her camrade in arms Fatima Sheikh.

Despite facing severe persecution and intense opposition from the Brahmanical, Manuvadi social order, Savitribai Phule remained steadfast in her struggle. She devoted her entire life to women’s education, to creating shelter homes for women who were victims of the atrocities of a Brahmanical, patriarchal society, and to resisting the cruel Manusmriti-based violent caste system.

We, comrades associated with the movement for the annihilation of caste, appeal to the people to observe Teachers’ Day not on September 5, the birth anniversary of the Sanatanist S. Radhakrishnan, but on January 3, the birth anniversary of Savitribai Phule— the harbinger of renaissance and the vanguard of women’s liberation and women’s education.

At the present juncture, when World ‘s largest and oldest fascist organization RSS- corporate nexus are launching a severe Manuvadi onslaught across the country against women, Dalits, the oppressed, Adivasis, minorities, and the toiling masses, it is all the more necessary to make this assertion.

Bandu Meshram,
Tuhin ,
M. K. Dasan

On behalf of All India Coordination Committee,
Caste Annihilation Movement (CAM)
2 January 2026

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AIRWO strongly condemns the suspension of Kuldeep Singh Sengar’s sentence

Calls for a united struggle for justice for the Unnao victim and against the gross mistreatment of the victim by the fascist, anti-women Modi government

The All India Revolutionary Women’s Organisation (AIRWO) has strongly condemned the Delhi High Court’s suspension of the life sentence of BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar in the horrific rape and murder case. It has also strongly condemned the gross mistreatment of the Unnao victim and the activists of the people’s movement protesting with her in Delhi by the police of the fascist, Manuvadi, anti-women Modi government.
Sengar was not only convicted of raping a minor victim in Makhi village of Unnao district, UP on June 4, 2017, but also convicted in another case for causing the death of her father in police custody. The rape occurred when the girl went to Sengar’s house for a job that he was allegedly offering.
It is noteworthy that after the rape, the minor victim could not even report the case to the police because Kuldeep Sengar and his goons threatened her and her family. Her father was openly attacked and beaten, and then instead of the perpetrators, he was sent to jail on false charges of protection. The beating was so severe that the victim’s father died in police custody without treatment at the behest of Sengar, his brother, and their associates. When she reported the case, the police were unwilling to register an FIR because Kuldeep Singh Sengar was an MLA and had a lot of influence and power in the area. The victim had to threaten self-immolation at Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s residence before an FIR was registered. Even while Sengar was in jail, Sengar and his associates continued to threaten the victim and her family. They had to apply for protection, and the court granted them CRPF protection, which transferred the case to the CBI and shifted the trial from UP to Delhi. During all this, Sengar and his associates threatened the victim and her family with death if they did not withdraw the case. Sengar had access to all facilities in jail, including a cell phone. Subsequently, an attempt was made on the lives of the victim and her lawyer when she was going to visit an uncle in jail with her aunts. A truck collided with the car they were traveling in, killing one of her aunts, while the victim and her lawyer were seriously injured. The CRPF security detail that was supposed to be with the victim was not present. The Delhi trial court sentenced Kuldeep Singh Sengar to life imprisonment. The trial court also noted the CBI’s failure to conduct a proper investigation. Sengar was also convicted in the murder case of the victim’s father. The High Court directed Sengar not to come within a 5 km radius of the victim’s residence. The appellant was instructed to remain in Delhi while the appeal was pending. AIRWO states that this incident is a continuation of a series of events that have unfolded during the undeclared Hindu Rashtra rule of the RSS, the world’s largest and oldest fascist organization, for over the past 11 years. These events include the release and public honoring of the murderers and rapists in the Bilkis Bano case in Gujarat, the release and public honoring of members of the saffron gang who sexually harassed female students at Banaras Hindu University, and the release on bail of notorious rapists and criminals like Ram Rahim and Asaram Bapu. This is a very dangerous precedent, demonstrating the plight of women under the cruel Manusmriti-based Hindu Rashtra project that the fascist Sangh Parivar is violently pursuing across the country. According to the Manusmriti, the sacred constitution of the Sangh’s Hindu Rashtra, women are mere objects of pleasure and cannot be granted the status of human beings. The Unnao victim has not received justice to this day, and saffron gang members like Kuldeep Sengar, who are perpetrators of violence against women and murderers, are released from prison according to the Manusmriti, while the victims of rape and sexual assault suffer further torment. To date, not a single leader or spokesperson of the Sangh-BJP has uttered a word against the above incident.

AIRWO General Secretary M. Selvi has called upon all progressive women’s organizations to unite and protest against this wrongful suspension of Kuldeep Sengar’s sentence, to ensure proper justice for the victim, and to oppose the fascist, Manuvadi, Brahminical Modi government.

M. Selvi
General Secretary
All India Revolutionary Women’s Organization (AIRWO)
December 28, 2025

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