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Preliminary Observations on the State Election Results

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Election Results from the 5 States – Assam, W. Bengal, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu and Kerala – while reveal a mixed picture reflecting the specificites of the States, also underscore the ever-present and intensifying fascist threat across the country. For instance, while ‘anti- incumbancy’ played a major role in the poll outcome in Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Kerala, the continuation of the fascist ‘double engine’ governments in Assam (and Puducherry) brings to the fore the irrelevance of such an incumbancy factor once fascists capture power. That’s, the Election Commission and the entire administrative machinery being under the total control of the double engine, it reveals the increasing difficulty to remove a fascist regime through election. Thus, the government of Himanta Biswa Sarma, who is accused of incitement to violence and a “call to genocide” of Bengali Muslim migrants continue in power even after the election.

The most tragic outcome of the current State elections is the BJP’s ascendancy to power in W. Bengal, gaining almost two-thirds of the total Assembly seats. The transformation of Bengal as a ‘double engine’ is the result of a host of factors such as a planned process dragging the State under the fascist stranglehold by the Central regime through all avenues at its disposal including the systematic disenfranchisement of millions of Muslim and non-BJP voters through SIR, the simmering discontent of the people against the TMC regime, and, more specifically, the division of the anti-fascist votes against BJP, in which all the so-called non-fascist sections including even the Left has a role. Now, the fascist double engine taking over power in Bengal will add a qualitative dimension to the intensifying fascist onslaught at the all India level.

The stunning and unexpected rise of TVK led by actor Vijay, facilitated by youth support, has resulted in a disruption of the general bipolar political situation in Tamil Nadu. Of course, though less-discussed, it is the people’s opposition to the neoliberal policies of Stalin-led DMK government that led to its failure in a three-cornered fight. At the same time, it is upto the anti-fascist and non-fascist parties, who have representation in the newly-elected Assembly, to rise to the occasion and take an appropriate decision to keep the RSS-BJP away from power in Tamil Nadu. Any failure in this may give ample opportunities for the fascist forces, in view of Vijay’s ‘non-ideological politics’ so far displayed by him.

The poll result in Kerala inflicting the biggest electoral debacle on CPI(M) was not unexpected. This defeat of the depoliticised Pinarayi government, CPI (M)’ s last bastion in India, was long overdue on account of its pro-corporate, soft-Hindutva, Islamophobic and anti-Dalit orientation. While the retreat of the Pinarayi government is welcome, BJP winning three Assembly seats for the first time in Kerala should be seen as part of the intensifying penetration of RSS fascism in to the social fabric of Kerala.

Here, it is not intended to go for a detailed elaboration of the Election results. To be precise, the biggest threat that the country faces today is RSS’ maddening pace towards its ultimate goal of establishing a fascist, majoritarian, Brahmanical Hindu Rashtra. At this critical juncture, the task of the revolutionary left and democratic forces is to unite with all those who are targeted and oppressed by fascism, and to build up the broadest possible unity of all the anti-fascist and non-fascist forces across the country. In the electoral front, this calls for similar unity against BJP and its allies at all levels. This Assembly election has again become an eye-opener to all anti-fascist forces regarding the indispensable need of such an anti-fascist unity at the all India level.

P J James

General Secretary

CPI (ML) Red Star

New Delhi

05. 05. 2026

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13th Party Congress of CPI (ML) Red Star – Formation of Reception Committee in Raichur

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Press Release

13th Party Congress of CPI (ML) Red Star

Formation of Reception Committee in Raichur

As per the resolve of the Central Committee of CPI (ML) Red Star to hold the 13th Party Congress from 16 – 20 September 2026 at Raichur, Karnataka, the Meeting convened at Kannada Bhavan on 3rd May 2026 has formed the Reception Committee for holding the Party Congress.

The 13th Party Congress of the Party is being held at a critical juncture when US- led imperialism is having its biggest offensive against world people through far-right corporatism, fascism and war. Its horrific manifestations are the US-Zionist genocide of the people of Palestine and aggression on Iran. And in many countries of the world, far-right neoliberalism and fascism are on the offensive.

For instance, the RSS, world’s largest and longest-running fascist organization, through its political tool BJP, is having its stranglehold over India, the most populous country today. As a result, the entire administration including police and even military, judiciary, education, culture are under the firm grip of fascism. While Muslims are targeted as the biggest enemy, and are systematically disenfranchised using the Election Commision, and even denied citizenship. In the same vein, Casteism or Sanatan being the ideological basis of RSS, Dalits are intensively facing oppression and deprivation. To be precise, the minorities, especially Muslims and Dalits, including women, are being deprived of basic human rights, as RSS is in its maddening pace towards a Brahmanical Hindur Rashtra.

However, as we all know, the Indian Communist Movement is facing many ideological-political setbacks which make it incapable to appropriately intervene in this critical situation. This failure is often manifested in the approach of different Communist parties towards Imperialism, Fascism and Caste. It is in this context that, regarding these crucial questions, the CPI (ML) Red Star has taken its specific positions in a concrete and clear-cut way. As part of this, the Party Congress will have three important Seminars on Imperialism, Fascism, and Caste, in which leaders of various Communist Parties, Organisations and Scholars will be participating. As part of these, may fraternal international parties are also expected to participate in the Congress.

As said at the outset, a 75-member Reception Committee is formed with Comrade Raghavendra Kustagi as Chairman and Comrade R. Manasayya as General Convener. MD Iqbal (MIC), H N Badiger, Veera Bhadrappa and Ravindranath Patti are the vice Chairpersons, and B. Rudrayya, MD Amir Ali and M Gangadhar are the Conveners of the Reception Committee. Including them, an Executive Committee comprising B. Basavaraj, Noorjahan m, Khaja Aslam Pasha, J. B. Raju, Raju Patti, Babu Bhadarigal, Gururaj Goudur, Narayan Balagurki, M. Niranjan and Kabeer, is also formed as part of the organisational tasks leading to the 13th Party Congress.

We appeal to all revolutionary left, progressive and democratic forces for their wholehearted solidarity and cooperation for the successful conducting of the Party Congress.

Press-Conference is addressed by:

P J James, General Secretary

R Manasayya, Polit Bureau Member (General Convener of Reception Committee)

Kabeer, Polit Bureau Member

MD Ameer Ali, Central Committee Member

M Gangadhar, State Executive Committee Member

CPI – ML Red Star

Raichur 04.05.2026

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Observing 141st May Day in the Context of Aggravating Imperialist-Fascist Offensive!

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Observing 141st May Day in the Context of Aggravating Imperialist-Fascist Offensive!

As usual, Communist Parties the world over, together with Workers and Oppressed Peoples, are observing 1 May as International Workers’ Day. It was in solidarity with the historic 8-hr working-day demand raised by Chicago workers on 1 May 1886, and in commemoration of the martyrdom of workers in Haymarket, that the International Federation of Socialist Groups and Trade Unions designated 1 May as International Workers’ Day with the clarion call “Workers of the World, Unite”, a slogan originally coined by Marx and Engels. Following October Revolution and formation of Comintern (Communist International) led by Lenin, and as necessitated by the revolutionary tasks in the epoch of imperialism, at the Second Congress of the Communist International Lenin further developed the strategic slogan to “Workers and Oppressed Peoples of the World, Unite”, which became the motto of May Day since then.

Of course, after the October Revolution, there had been a world-wide surge in anti-colonial/anti-imperialist struggles led by both working class and oppressed peoples. This new situation prompted imperialism to resort to a shift from its colonial phase to neocolonialism, “more sinister and pernicious” phase of imperialism, along with the adoption of a “welfare” mask conceding 8-hour working day and some democratic rights and welfare measures till the 1970s. However, taking advantage of the ideological-political setbacks of the Communist movement, and to facilitate the accumulation process in the context of the bouncing back of inherent imperialist crisis since 1970s, US-led imperialism abandoned the “welfare state” and embraced neoliberal globalisation leading to unfettered freedom to corporate capital for plundering labour and nature.

As a result, over the last half-decade, all the hard-earned rights of workers including 8-hr work, minimum wage, social security, etc., are being increasingly snatched away from them, while all kinds of oppression in relation to caste, gender, race, nationality, and so on, have intensified several-fold. At a time when rapid technological advancements under neoliberalism, especially 21st century ‘frontier technologies’ including Digitization and Artificial Intelligence, have brought about several-fold increase in productivity of labour, rather than contributing to an increase in real wages and reduction in the working time, these are resulting in skyrocketing corporate accumulation, super-exploitation of workers including their “informalization”, inequality, poverty and plunder of nature leading to ecological catastrophes everywhere. And, one of the outcomes of technologies like AI is unprecedented levels of unemployment transforming the whole world, whether imperialist or neocolonial, into a “waste-land of unemployment”.

Now, as workers and oppressed peoples together with Left and Democratic forces across the world, are rising up in varying forms against this horrific situation, imperialist powers and their dependent regimes are becoming more oppressive by resorting to neo-fascism (i.e. fascism in the neoliberal period) across the world. In this neofascist offensive, while the usual “anti-Communism” and anti-Muslimness or Islamophobia are being globally used as the ideological bases of fascism, according to the concrete social and historical condition of countries, varying ideologies such as Evangelism in the Americas, Racism and Xenophobia in Europe, Zionism in Israel, Casteist Hindutva (political Hinduism) in India, etc., are providing ideological orientation to fascism. As such, the condition of the working class and oppressed peoples including minorities, immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers, women, transgenders, and above all, the most oppressed Dalits as in India, has become all the more vulnerable.

In this context, the second coming of neo-fascist Trump as the president of US, the leading imperialist power and world’s biggest military machine, and the further strengthening of the “US-Zionist axis of evil” have led to disastrous consequences. In continuation of the horrors and holocausts upon Palestine people, the US-Zionist axis of evil, world people’s number one enemy today, is committing unprecedented aggression and crimes on Iran in violation of all international laws and precedents. Of late, though this US-Zionist crimes in Middle East have led to unprecedented inter-imperialist contradictions, except rhetorical statements, the other self-seeking imperialist powers are not taking any serious intervention in restraining the US-Zionist axis, the root cause of all the geopolitical tensions in the Gulf today. Even now, there are self-professed communist parties, who still pursue an approach of balancing US-Zionist axis of evil with Iranian regime. Meanwhile, as the heroic and historic resistance of the Iranian people against US-Zionist axis is getting whole-hearted solidarity from world people, both US imperialism and the Zionist regime, the Middle East military outpost of US, remain as the most hated regimes by international community. At the same time, the emerging inter-imperialist contradictions also depict a tilt in imperialist power balance and consequent geopolitical shift away from the declining US-led Anglo-Saxon West towards a multi-polar configuration in which China-led coalition has a major role.

Regarding India, that comprises one of the largest contingents of international proletariat, the fascism led by world’s biggest political party BJP, the political tool of RSS, world’s largest and longest-running fascist organisation, has become more horrific. Today, while these lines are written, as part of the Hindu Rashtra agenda od RSS, using the Election Commission and the entire administration and even judiciary at its disposal, the Modi regime is engaged in a “political genocide”, mainly targeting the Muslims by disenfranchising and eventually denying citizenship to them. Modi regime, the lackey of US imperialism, and serving the most corrupt elements of corporate capital, is the biggest enemy of Indian working class, vast majority of whom are informal or unorganised, divided into caste-imposed heterogeneous categories, and condemned to sell their labour power at the cheapest wages. The neofascist legislation by Modi government converting the prevailing 44 Labour Laws into four Labour Codes, in conformity with the “ease of doing business” diktat promulgated by Fund-Bank-WTO trio and imperialist think-tanks at the behest of global corporate capital and its junior Indian partners, are intended to transform the Indian workers into 21st century bonded/slave labourers who are bound to work on casual and contract basis devoid of basic democratic/human rights. Long-cherished goals of the working class such as 8-hour working day, permanent employment, pension system, equal pay for equal work, gender-friendly working conditions and so on have become a myth under fascist Modi regime. As part of neoliberal-corporatism, the Modi government, after transforming itself as a ‘corporate-facilitator’ has already withdrawn from all infrastructure, industrial and service sectors and everything is entrusted with the most corrupt corporate billionaires for plundering labour and nature as they like.

Another crucial issue, that requires the attention of the Indian working class and oppressed peoples while observing May Day, is the flourishing corruption in India under the fascist regime. While Parliament is kept as a mere edifice, policy decisions are made in corporate board rooms. While corporate funds are flowing into the coffers of the ruling party though notorious Electoral Bonds, under the cover of Corporate Social Responsibility and through non-transparent contributions on the one hand, through horrific corporate tax-cuts, disinvestment of PSUs, direct channelling of several lakh crores of bank money to crony corporates through ‘Non-Performing Assets’ and so on, wealth concentration among the billionaire class under Modi regime has reached unparalleled proportions. The gap between the common people and the super-rich has reached hitherto unknown levels. For instance, the top one percent of super-rich Indians holds 40 percent of the national wealth, more than that under British colonialism, while that of bottom 50 percent of the people having only 3 percent, which is much less than what it was at the time of Power Transfer in 1947. Corporate crony capitalists in whom India’s wealth is concentrated and who are totally depending on imperialist centres for technology and expertise are least interested in employment-generating real production and are engaged in money-spinning speculative businesses. As a result, unemployment has become unprecedented, while working class and oppressed people with steeply going down real income and declining purchasing power are unable even to subsist amidst sky-rocketing prices of food, fuel, medicine and other items. Today, with more than half of world’s “absolute poor” or extreme poor, India is called a “citadel of global poverty”.

At this critical juncture, it is the solemn task of all workers and oppressed people to stand in solidarity with the world-wide struggles rising up against neofascism and imperialism in all their manifestations including wars, super-exploitation of workers and toiling and oppressed peoples, against environmental destruction, etc. While extending warmest May Day greetings to international proletariat and all oppressed peoples of the world, and while building up revolutionary, fraternal comradeship with them and all like-minded forces in the struggle for people’s democracy and socialism, the revolutionary Communists and all democratic forces in India today have a two-pronged but interrelated tasks in front of them. First is the strategic and long-term task of resisting and defeating the ruling system and establish a people’s democratic state. However, under fascism that denies even the basic democratic rights, this long-term task can be taken up only by creating minimum conditions necessary for waging struggles and campaigns. Therefore, the immediate and urgent task before us is to defeat and remove the most reactionary RSS fascism at the earliest.

To be precise, when we commemorate the 141st May Day at this critical juncture when RSS fascism, with Islamophobia and most inhuman Brahmanical caste-system as ideological base is super-imposing its fascist stranglehold over the Indian people, it is the indispensable task to rise up against this horrific situation utilising all options at the disposal. That’s, while always upholding international solidarity, it is the solemn task of India’s workers and oppressed to commemorate this May Day calling for a no-holds-barred offensive against RSS fascism. This is essential for creating the conditions for taking up the strategic march towards the establishment of people’s democracy and socialism in solidarity with all workers and oppressed peoples of the world today.

Long Live May Day!

Workers and Oppressed Peoples of the World, Unite!

Down with Imperialism and Fascism!

Wipe out US-Zionist Axis of Evil!

Solidarity with the People of Palestine and Iran!

(Editorial: Red Star Monthly, May 2026 Issue)

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TUCI Stands in Solidarity with Delhi-Noida Contract Workers Against Corporate Exploitation

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TRADE UNION CENTRE OF INDIA (TUCI) Central Committee

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PRESS RELEASE

The Central Committee of the Trade Union Centre of India (TUCI) extends its full and unwavering support to the ongoing struggles of industrial Contract workers in the Delhi–Noida region.

The workers have risen in protest against exploitative practices of capitalist and corporate contract companies, which continue to extract labour power under conditions of unjustly low wages, long working hours, and denial of basic labour rights. These conditions amount to a clear violation of existing labour laws and officially notified wage rates.

This struggle represents a fundamental class conflict between low wages and high profits, where workers are asserting their right to dignity, fair compensation, and humane working conditions.

TUCI’s Key Demands:

Immediate withdrawal of police forces deployed against protesting workers.

Unconditional release of all arrested workers and activists.

Strict enforcement of labour laws and minimum wage notifications.

Declaration of a ₹35,000 standard minimum wage for workers in Delhi.

End to exploitative contract labour practices in corporate sectors.

The TUCI strongly condemns the repressive measures adopted by the government led by Narendra Modi, which seeks to suppress legitimate democratic struggles through force and intimidation.

We call upon all political parties, trade unions, democratic organisations, and civil society groups to extend their solidarity and active support to this important workers’ movement. The outcome of this struggle will have far-reaching implications for the working class across North India and beyond.

The TUCI Central Committee reiterates that the rights and dignity of workers must not be sacrificed in the name of profit and corporate growth. The unity and determination of the working class will continue to drive this struggle forward.

Com.Sabi Joshef

Prasident

Com.Labha Shing

National Vice prasident

Com.R.Manasayya

General Secretary

16-4-2026

New Delhi

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Rise up Decisively Condemning the Delimitation Bill!

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Rise up Decisively Condemning the Delimitation Bill!

United Opposition is Still Capable to Defeat it!

Modi government’s heinous move towards a Delimitation exercise for an inter-state redistribution and reallocation of Lok Sabha seats under the cover of ‘women’s empowerment’ is condemnable. After all, there is a broad consensus regarding reservation of one-third of the total number of seats in the Lok Sabha and State Legislative Assemblies for women. However, clubbing it with the controversial Delimitation Bill and using women’s reservation as a cover for the Delimitation exercise and superimposition of a majoritarian unitary agenda is fascistic and malicious.

As such, the Constitution (One Hundred and Thirty First Amendment) Bill, 2026, which seeks to increase the strength of the Lok Sabha from the existing 543 members to 850 members will be taken up in the Special Session of the Parliament to be convened on April 16 and 17. Obviously, if the Bill becomes law, its immediate impact will be an abrupt increase in Lok Sabha seats in States like UP, Uttarakhand ,Bihar, MP, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Haryana and Delhi, and a sharp drop in share of seats among South Indian States like Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, AP, Telangana, and Puducherry. In effect, those States, mainly southern, who pursued population control measures will have only reduced representation in Lok Sabha, while the number of MPs from Hindi heartland States where BJP has its double engine regimes, will disproportionately go up.

In fact, this hurried Delimitation move on the part of RSS-BJP is in violation of accepted procedures. According to Indian Constitution and norms followed, and without going in to details, the inter-state distribution of Lok Sabha seats which was pegged to 1971 Census, can be altered only based on the first Census (2031 Census)after the year 2026. But now the Modi government is planning to use the forthcoming 2026-27 Census as the base for its Delimitation exercise, instead of 2031 Census. In this context, the hasty move for the Delimitation Bill for raising the strength of Lok Sabha to 850 seats with drastic percentage reduction in seats for Southern states, by reconvening the already concluded Budget Session of parliament, that too when crucial elections to West Bengal and Tamil Nadu are due, clearly lacks transparency.

Thus, the proposed Constitution Amendment Bill & Delimitation Bill, both clubbed together, that will shrink the share of Lok Sabha seats of Southern States, and increase that of Nother States where RSS-BJP has a dominant share of votes, if enacted, will lay down the solid foundation for a fascist, majoritarian Hindu Rashtra! Revealingly, the Modi government has resolutely denied the Oppostion request to postpone the move till the completion of the last phase of West Bengal Election. However, if the Opposition parties decide to forge a unity against this 131st Amendment Bill, it can be defeated in the floor of the House, since the BJP still lacks the required two-third majority needed for Constitutional amendments.

We appeal to all the working and oppressed people together with all progressive democratic forces to resolutely come forward opposing this majoritarian unitary move on the part of Modi regime towards the establishment of a fascist Hindu Rashtra.

P J James

General Secretary

CPI (ML) Red Star

New Delhi

15.04.2026

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Christian Unity Forum, Bastar Division strongly condemns the Chhattisgarh Freedom of Religion Bill and demands its withdrawal

admin — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:05:54 +0000

Press Release

*Christian Unity Forum, Bastar Division strongly condemns the Chhattisgarh Freedom of Religion Bill and demands its withdrawal*

*CPI (ML) Red Star calls the Chhattisgarh Freedom of Religion Bill a black law*

Raipur, April 14, 2026:
On April 13, a massive public meeting was organized at City Ground, Jagdalpur under the leadership of the Christian Unity Forum, Bastar Division, condemning the Chhattisgarh Freedom of Religion Bill and demanding its withdrawal. Thousands of women and men participated in the सभा.

Addressing the gathering were Bishop Akhilesh Edgar from Raipur, Pastor Ajay Paul, Comrade Katlam (CPI), Amarjeet Patel (State President, Mool Nivasi Sangh), Chowa Ram Sahu (Caste Annihilation Movement), Comrade Saura (State Secretary, CPI (ML) Red Star), V. N. Prasad Rao (Convenor, Jan Sangharsh Morcha Chhattisgarh), Advocate Son Singh Jhali, and other speakers.

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Comrade Saura, State Secretary of CPI (ML) Red Star, stated that on April 13, 1919, the day of Baisakhi, thousands had gathered when General Dyer ordered indiscriminate firing, killing hundreds. Today, the fascist RSS-BJP government has brought the Chhattisgarh Freedom of Religion Bill 2026, which is a preparation for brutal repression against minorities, especially the Christian community. This bill is a more cruel version of the one introduced during the Raman Singh government in 2006. It violates Article 25 of the Constitution of India, which guarantees every individual the freedom to practice religion of their choice.

According to CPI (ML) Red Star, this bill has been deliberately introduced to target minorities, particularly Christians and Muslims. This became evident when a tweet from the Chief Minister’s/CMO’s account spoke about freeing the state from “non-believers,” although the tweet was later deleted. The Chief Minister or his advisors must clarify what is meant by the term “non-believers.” Does the state government have any data on how many people have been converted through inducement since 2006? Or how many cases of forced conversion have been registered since the present government came to power in 2003?

Available information suggests that no such forced conversions are taking place in the state. Chhattisgarh is facing severe poverty and unemployment, while natural resources—jal, jungle, zameen—are being handed over to corporate houses under state patronage. As a result, attacks on poor working people are intensifying in the interests of corporate forces.

The hardships of Dalits, oppressed sections, women, Adivasis, minorities, and the working masses are increasing. To divert attention from these issues, the Sangh-backed, Manuvadi fascist forces find it necessary—like in Maharashtra—to launch a new hate campaign against minorities, especially Christians and Muslims. Under this campaign, incidents such as harassment of Christian nuns in Durg, attacks on Christian communities and their prayer sites by Bajrang Dal groups, obstruction of burial rites in Kanker and across Bastar, and even exhumation and reburial of bodies at unknown locations by the administration are being carried out.

All speakers unanimously stated that today, corporate houses are ruling the country in alliance with Sangh-backed fascist forces. The Modi government is serving corrupt corporate giants like Adani and Ambani. The poor, working masses, oppressed sections, SCs, STs, OBCs, and minorities are suffering. There is an urgent need for all to unite and fight against these fascist forces.

The Bastar Division convention of the Christian Unity Forum in Jagdalpur has called upon all democratic and progressive forces of the state to unite and strongly oppose this conspiratorial and divisive bill.

Comrade Saura
State Secretary
CPI (ML) Red Sta uh

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Preventing Takeover of States by “Fascist Double Engine” is the Prime Task in the Assembly Elections

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Preventing Takeover of States by “Fascist Double Engine” is the Prime Task in the Assembly Elections!

Assembly Elections to Assam, Kerala, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal are scheduled in Aptil 2026. The single-phase election to the first three States takes pace on 9 April and that in Tamil Nadu on 23 April. A two-phase Election is superimposed on West Bengal, which will take place on 23 and 29 April 2026. While in Puduchery, BJP is in power as part of a coalition with its fascist ally, Assam is already under the fascist diktats of the “double engine”. Obviously, in the elections for the other three opposition-ruled States, both BJP and its ideological mentor RSS are now engaged in a maddening offensive to capture power by all means to bring them also under the corporate-fascist stranglehold.

In this regard, the role of the Election Commission, which is transformed as a pliable tool of the Central regime, and the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll intended to consolidate pro-BJP votes have become decisve. If the 2002 SIR had given six months time for submitting the filled-in forms, now only 30 days are there for submitting the filled-in forms for enrolling the voters. In the guise of eliminating ineligible voters, the oppressed in general, and Muslims in particular, whom the Indian fascists target as their number one enemy, are systematically excluded from the voter list. Millions of disenfranchised citizens who are condemned to live as ragpickers, masons, domestic helpers, and other unorganised workers who live in slums, will be denied citizenship also in course of time, as SIR is widely acknowledged as the precursor to NRC. While RSS-BJP leaders attempt to allay fears of disenfranchised Hindus that they had nothing to fear about it, since they could be safely accomodated under provisions of CAA, the Muslims are not entitled to such consolations, as CAA is essentially anti-Muslim. This is the case particularly in West Bengal, a State where the BJP and the entire central fascist machinery are specifically concentrating their attention, and where many hundreds of thousands of erstwhile Muslim migrants and refugees from Bangladesh having Aadhaar, Voter Cards and Ration Cards are excluded from voter list, in spite of the belated judicial intervention in this regard.

Now, with Election Commission including the administration and police under its control, immense corporate money power with more than 82% of Electoral Trust Fund at BJP’s disposal and backed by a propaganda blitzkrieg together with Godi media, the fascist forces are spearheading their election campaign in the opposition-ruled states. In conformity with erstwhile RSS dictum (as explained by Golwalkar) that federalism is a “poisonous seed”, the ultimate aim of the corporate-fascist intervention is the establishment of a majoritarian unitary regime by undermining the federal structure of the Constitution. As such, even to safeguard the very structure and character of the existing Constitution, it is the solemn task of all anti-fascist democratic forces to totally isolate and defeat the BJP in the forthcoming Assembly elections.

To accomplish this crucial task, and to be very precise, the central focus on the part of all anti-fascist forces and even non-fascist forces, irrespective of their ideological orientation, should be to avoid a division of the anti-fascist or anti-BJP votes in the Elections, since fascism is an extremely dangerous and terrorist dictatorship led by the most reactionary section of the ruling class, now represented by the corporate-Hindutva forces in India. In other words, to prevent a situation of BJP’s ascendance to power in these States, the clear-cut central slogan in the Election should be “Defeat BJP/Defeat Fascism”. Of course, while taking up this immediate and indispensable task of preventing fascist takeover of power in States, care should also be taken by progressive-democratic forces to avoid opportunistic adjustments with both allies and apologists of fascism. Further, while taking up this immediate task of defeating fascists in the Assembly elections, it is also the duty of the genuine Left to be cautious of its independent position of upholding the long-term strategic interests of the working class and oppressed people. In brief, while upholding its independent ideological-political position against neoliberalism, fascism and war, and avoiding any political alliance with non-fascist ruling class parties or with depoliticised and neoliberal apologists of fascism, the revolutionary Left must use the votes and has to go for an uncompromising campaign appealing the people to appropriately cast their votes so as to ensure the defeat of BJP and allies of RSS fascism.

(Editorial, Red Star Monthly, April 2026 Issue)

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CPI (ML) Red Star Strongly Condemns the Chhattisgarh Freedom of Religion Bill

admin — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 08:37:53 +0000

CPI (ML) Red Star Strongly Condemns the Chhattisgarh Freedom of Religion Bill

Says It Is a Preparation for Brutal Repression of Minorities, Especially the Christian Community

Raipur, March 22, 2026: Comrade Saura, State Secretary of CPI (ML) Red Star, in a statement issued today, said that the Chhattisgarh Freedom of Religion Bill 2026 is a preparation by the fascist Sangh–BJP government for brutal repression of minorities, especially the Christian community. This bill is a more draconian version of the law introduced during the Raman Singh government in 2006. It violates Article 25 of the Constitution of India, which guarantees every person the freedom to practice religion according to their own will.

According to CPI (ML) Red Star, the bill has been deliberately introduced to target minorities, especially Christians and Muslims. This became evident when a tweet from the Chief Minister Sai/CMO’s official account spoke about making the state “free from ‘vidharmis’ (heretics).” Although the tweet was later deleted, the Chief Minister or his advisors must clarify what they mean by the term “vidharmi.” Does the state government have any data on how many people have been induced to convert since 2006? Or how many cases of forced conversion have been registered since the BJP government came to power in 2003?

Available information suggests that no such religious conversions are taking place anywhere in the state. Chhattisgarh is facing severe poverty and unemployment, while land, forests, and natural resources are being handed over to corporate houses with state patronage. As a result, attacks on poor working people are intensifying in the interest of corporate capital. Under the protection of senior BJP leaders, the state is increasingly turning into a hub of narcotics or an “opium state.” The hardships of Dalits, oppressed communities, women, Adivasis, minorities, and the working masses are continuously increasing.

To divert attention from these pressing issues, it has become necessary for the Sangh’s Manuvadi fascist forces to launch a new campaign of hatred against minorities—especially Christians and Muslims—similar to what is happening under the fascist double-engine government in Maharashtra. As part of this campaign, incidents such as the harassment of Christian nuns in Durg, attacks by saffron outfits like Bajrang Dal on Christian communities and their places of worship across the state, obstruction of burial rights of Christians in Kanker and the Bastar region, and even the forced exhumation of bodies and their reburial at unknown locations by the administration are taking place.

CPI (ML) Red Star has appealed to all democratic and progressive forces in the state to unite and strongly oppose this conspiratorial and divisive bill.

Comrade Saura
State Secretary
CPI (ML) Red Star

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mmediately Withdraw the Fascist Amendment Bill against Transgender Persons!

admin — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:44:08 +0000

The Modi government’s move to amend the 2019 Transgender Persons Act is perfectly in tune with the diktats of Manusmriti, the ideological guideline of RSS, that treats women and all oppressed as “subhuman”. In fact, the historic judgement of the Supreme Court, upholding the fundamental rights of transgenders with the stipulation that the “third gender” should be recognised on the basis of “self-identification” without requiring medical procedures, came on March 15, 2014, just two months before the ascent of the Modi regime on May 26, 2014. Later, it was under strong democratic pressure that the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act came into being in 2019, in consonance with the 2014 ruling of the Supreme Court.

However, the fascist stranglehold over all aspects of Indian society has been steadily intensifying ever since the ascendance of the Modi regime. Not only Hindutva fascists, but fascists the world over, are opposed to transgender people because they view gender non-conformity as a threat to their rigid social order, which is based on traditional gender roles, and patriarchal social structures. Transgender identities defy the “biological essentialism” that fascist ideology uses to enforce strict societal control. Since fascism relies on a strict, traditional binary of male/female roles, transgender identities are considered as a threat to its “nationalism” (cultural nationalism in the case of RSS), as it disrupts the idea of a nation, by undermining traditional family structures which are essential for a strong nation. To be precise, all fascists, are opposed to a “gender theory” that encompasses feminism and transgender movements , and always brand them as “liberal”and “left” threats to the traditional social order. In other words, neoliberal fascists (neo-fascists) the world over, who are patriarchal to the core , target all transgender movements and frame LGBTQ+ rights as a threat to the fascist regime. Trumpism, the US version of fascism today, is a typical instance. Trump is notorious for using language that dehumanises transgender people depicting them as a social threat. He has already directed federal law enforcement agencies to investigate “radical gender ideology” stigmatizing it as a threat to US. Now, through the Transgender Amendment Act, the Modi regime, which is clinging on to the apron strings of Trump regarding policy decisions, is now copying the same for India also.

Now coming to the issue,the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026 that was introduced in Lok Sabha on March 13, 2026 redefines the transgender Identity so as to deny or exclude such persons from the Constitutional protection by shifting them away from “self-perceived identity” toward a stricter, “medical-board-based” recognition process. This undermines both the spirit of the 2019 Act and the 2014 Supreme Court judgement that fully upheld the self-identification process and rejected the need of a medical board. Without going into the details, as all organisations and movements of the transgender people and oppressed peoples organisations including all well-meaning people have already stated, this fascist move to forcefully interfere in the Identity of transgender people is aimed at excluding and further marginalising them by denying them employment and welfare provisions. While the material objective of this far-right heinous move is denying welfare, dignity and employment, its ideological foundation is “gender essentialism” and patriarchy inherent in “cultural nationalism” and its approach towards denying the right of self-determination to transgender persons.

We appeal to all democratic and progressive forces to rise up against this reactionary move on the part of the fascist regime and stand in solidarity with the transgender persons at this critical juncture. All those who oppose fascism should come Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill 2026 which seeks to remove trans persons’ right resolutely demanding the Modi government to summarily withdraw the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill 2026 that deny them the right to self-determination and the fundamental rights to live with dignity.

P J James
General Secretary
CPI ( ML) Red Star

New Delhi
16.03.2026

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In Solidarity with the Heroic Iranian Resistance against US-Zionist Aggression!

admin — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 03:10:36 +0000

The most condemnable US-Zionist aggression on Iran in violation of all International Laws, and all postwar Covenants, Conventions and Statutes, that began on February 28, 2026, is still continuing with intensifying horrors. This unprovoked, and treacherous offensive, that too when negotiations were going on with Iran, by US imperialism, the number one enemy of world people, and the Zionist regime which acts as the strategic postwar Middle East military outpost of US, beginning with the killing of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and bombing of an elementary school in Iran that brutally murdered 160 children among around 175 people, has already destabilised the entire Middle East. Civilian casualties of unparalleled proportions, environmental destruction and economic collapse including galloping oil prices are now spreading beyond the Middle East and engulfing the world. More serious is the concern that this aggression, consequent on the heroic resistance of Iran, quite contrary to the calculations of Trump and Netanyahu and their Islamophobic allies and lackeys the world over, is pushing the situation into a nuclear risk, a plausible danger associated with the lawless Zionist regime which has illegally acquired nuclear weapons with the support its imperialist allies. Irrespective of the final outcome and culmination of the war, one thing has become obvious: the geopolitical-economic relations of the Middle East with its repercussions on global power balance will never be the same as before!

This vicious imperialist aggression has once again exposed the far-right, neofascist and depoliticised world situation when Iran is single-handedly resisting the world’s largest military machine, now run by a reckless and psychopathic pedophile, which is symptomatic of the extreme decay and degeneration of imperialism and its institutions. One of its concrete manifestations is the latest GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) Resolution at the UNSC (UN Security Council) supported by 135 countries including the most populous India which even co-sponsored it, that demanded immediate cessation of all attacks by the Islamic Republic of Iran and condemning its actions aimed at “obstructing international navigation through the Strait of Hormuz.” Instead of resolutely condemning the unilateral US-Zionist aggression on Iran, this Resolution became a shameless neocolonial apology and subservience of all imperialist lackeys. It is heartwarming that many governments from the Afro-Asian-Latin American continents kept away from this one-sided and Islamophobic Resolution, along with China and Russia having their own imperialist self-interests in this regard. More despicable is the political inability of Gulf regimes, who are clinging on to the apron strings of the US, to demand a withdrawal of the military bases from their soil that serve US geopolitical-economic interests. These US military bases have become a threat to peace and security in the region and the biggest source of all instabilities in the Middle East in the postwar neocolonial period.

Meanwhile, Iran has launched missile and drone attacks against US military bases in many countries across the Middle East such as Iraq, Kuwait, Jordan and UAE as part of its self-defence strategy. This is an unprecedented blow to the superpower arrogance of the US and has inflicted severe damages to its costly military Infrastructures. Coupled with this, Iran has restricted passage along the Strait of Hormuz through which 20 percent (40 percent of the oil import by India, an ally of the US) of global oil trade takes place. As of latest information, except for select friendly countries such as Russia and China who kept away from the UNSC Resolution against Iran, oil tankers and vessels from NATO and their allies are disallowed to pass through Hormuz. This has sky-rocketed global oil and gas prices, sending shock waves across the world. At the same time, Iran’s blocking of the Strait of Hormuz for Western imperialist powers and their allies is a strategic blow to US, the postwar supreme arbiter, while its large number of high-tech military bases in the region remain as spectators. As such, to keep the allies and lackeys with it, the Trump regime has been forced to announce a 30-day waiver on sanctions for Russian oil, as a move to stabilize crude prices.

To come to the core issue, Iran is now single-handedly (amid unconfirmed reports of logistical support from Russia and China) withstanding the full power of the combined US-Zionist military machine in the Middle East, even inflicting heavy damages to US military bases. Over more than half-a-century, it is historic that only Iran, which is now totally devastated by the US-Zionist aggression, has come forward to attack the entire US military network in the Middle East. It is a direct challenge not only to the Islamophobic Trump regime and for the vicious financial-military industrial complex of the US, which is the ultimate beneficiary of war, but also to the entire Anglo-Saxon imperialism of the last two hundred years. Obviously, except a few countries like Spain, the leading powers of Europe and even India (as is evident from Trump-Netanyahu-Modi bonhomie) have never come forward condemning the outright and gross violation of international laws by the US-Zionist axis. India’s silence is all the more revealing since, being a founding member of BRICS, it should have stood in solidarity with Iran, another member of BRICS. China, while effectively competing with the US, upholding its so-called “diplomatic restraint” is busy with its preparations for the scheduled visit of Trump to Beijing for a high-stakes summit, which is expected to prepare the roadmap for a ‘multipolar’ arrangement for global plunder.

Of course, the US-Zionist aggression on Iran is not an overnight development; on the contrary, it is the culmination of a long drawn out process since Trump’s unilateral withdrawal from Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) or ‘Iran Nuclear Deal’ in 2018 during his first term. It is in continuation of that, reminiscent of the 2003 Bush-Blair aggression on Iraq under the false claims of ‘weapons of mass destruction’ and execution of Saddam Hussein, Trump constantly accused Iran of rebuilding the nuclear weapons program, culminating in his criminal and illegal aggression on it beginning with February 28, 2026. Contrary to the argument of Trump’s American critics, though Epstein files may have been an immediate cause for the present attack, as in the case of his intervention in Venezuela, it has been the consistent US imperialist interests that prompted this gruesome aggression on Iran. And, as analysts point out, the US-Zionist axis has been effectively using
all available means of cyber expertise, intelligence network, communication and analytical technologies to track the movement of Khamenei that facilitated to eliminate him at the first instance.

However, the sustained resistance of Iran imparting heavy blows to the world’s mightiest military machine has exposed the strategic weakness of US imperialism and its military outpost Zionist Israel. It has challenged and exposed the structural weakness and vulnerabilities of the US military network in the Middle East. It reveals that the declining material base of US imperialism has become incapable of sustaining the hundreds of military bases across the world, and also exposing its failure to fulfill superpower responsibilities before its allies and lackeys. This has politically enabled Iran to forcefully put forward its reasonable and logical conditions for a permanent end to the war rather than succumbing to the aggressors’ cease-fire diktats, even as Trump and Netanyahu have already demanded unconditional surrender by Iran. Meanwhile, according to reports, as per Pentagon directive, US marines are heading towards Iran leading to a prolonged invasion on Iran using ground forces.

At this critical juncture, it is adorable that Iran is heroically resisting the US-Zionist aggressors. While US-Zionist axis is demanding unconditional surrender, Iran has come to the fore challenging the super-power authority on declaring cease-fire diktats. Accordingly, Iran has put forward three conditions for permanently ending the illegal war of aggression. In general, they are: 1) recognise all of Iran’s legitimate rights as a sovereign country; 2) war reparations from the aggressors for the damages, and 3) binding international guarantees against future aggression. Fully knowing the irrelevance of the toothless UN which has already been exposed as a neocolonial tool of US-led imperialism, Iran has also put forward these demands before the international community. Of course, linked with these demands, there are many issues regarding which, along with the international community, the workers and oppressed peoples of the world who bear the brunt of the imperialist-fascist oppression today, need to be raised for serious evaluation. The US-Zionist aggression on Iran is the appropriate context for raising these issues.

Most important of all is regarding the present international order, where monopoly over nuclear weapons is with a few imperialist-fascist regimes and their allies. Keeping this monopoly, the rogue regimes among them, the most typical being the US-Zionist axis, are now threatening the non-nuclear countries in various forms. Iran is a victim of this constant threat and blackmailing. US imperialism is the only power who used atomic weapons against an already defeated Japan in 1945. Ironically, the same criminal power, and using agencies like IAEA and NPT at its disposal, is now invading Iran, accusing it for weaponisation and nuclear enrichment. Everybody knows that Zionist Israel acquired nuclear power under the cover of Anglo-Saxon imperialism, for maintaining it as a threat to Arab nations and for ensuring US petrodollar interests. In this context, while upholding global nuclear disarmament as an ideal, the international community should come forward for abolishing the nuclear monopoly and custodian status of a few imperialist-fascist powers. And till the emergence of a world order with complete disarmament and nuclear safety for humankind, the right to possess nuclear weapons should be left to the prerogative of the people of every nation rather than to any superpower diktats. Viewed from this perspective, it should be the right of the Iranian people to decide on nuclear enrichment.

Related to this is the question of US military bases. Trumpism and the aggressiveness displayed by it in Latin America and the Middle East are only symptoms of the weakening of the crisis-ridden US imperialism. Historically, no ruling class on earth has ever surpassed the criminality, horror and terrorism unleashed by US imperialism. And the aggressiveness, lawlessness and criminality displayed by it in the neoliberal period in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Venezuela and now in Iran have surpassed everything that preceded them. Therefore, the comity of nations, together with the workers and oppressed peoples of all nations, should rise up against the hundreds of US military bases located across the world. It is up to the people of the Middle East to raise the firm demand for an immediate withdrawal of all military bases from the entire Gulf region. Now these military bases are used for materialising the so-called “Greater Israel” based on the Zionist “biblical rights” over the entire area between Euphrates in Iraq and Nile in Egypt, a position now endorsed by die-hard “Christian-Zionists” from the US also. As such, the demand for ending US military bases should be clubbed with the Zionist withdrawal from Gaza and all occupied territories including Lebanon leading to the establishment of a people’s democratic and secular Palestine where all the natives from there, irrespective of their religion, have the right to live as citizens. It should also be clubbed with the cancellation of Trump’s Board of Peace, which is envisaged as a tourist- financial-military hub.

Hence, at this critical juncture, we resolutely appeal to the workers and oppressed peoples of all countries to rise up in solidarity with the Iranian people in their historic resistance against US imperialism and Neofascist Zionism!

Red Salute to the People of Iran for their Historic Resistance against Imperialism and Zionism!

Down with the US-Zionist Axis of Evil!

Long Live Anti-Imperialist, Anti-Fascist Unity of Workers and Oppressed Peoples of the World!

International Department
CPI (ML) Red Star

New Delhi
March 14, 2026

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