Communist Revolutionaries in India are observing 28 July as Martyrs Day, the day when Comrade Charu Majumdar, the first General Secretary of CPI (ML), was martyred under police custody in 1972. It was in accordance with the perspectives of developing peasant struggles put forward by Comrade Charu Majumdar that the historic Naxalbari Struggle took place in May 1967, leading to the formation of CPI (ML) in 1969.

Red Salute to Martyrs !
Resist and Defeat RSS Fascism !
Down with Imperialism !
Strive for People’s Democracy and Socialism !

CPI (ML) Red Star

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The Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Star unequivocally condemns the barbaric state attack on peaceful protesters during the Parliament March held as part of the Jantar Mantar struggle organised by CJP. This state-sponsored terror directly exposes the anti-student and anti-people nature of the fascist RSS-BJP regime.

On January 20, 2026, following the forcible removal of Sonam Wangchuk to the hospital, the CJP and allied student organizations along with thousands of students and youth marched from Jantar Mantar toward Parliament. Outraged by 152 “paper leaks” impacting over 7.5 crore students, this massive mobilization marks a further development of the student movement against BJP Regime under whom the country’s education system is increasingly becoming a profit-making field for the corporate-educational mafia. Facing heavy police barricades, tear gas, and brutal lathi charges near the Parliament Street Police Station, the youth demonstrated immense bravery. Reports confirm severe injuries and targeted attacks on student activists, including AIRSO comrades.

Despite state terror, the collective resolve of the youth remains unbroken. CPI(ML) Red Star, stands in solidarity with the movement that strongly demands the resignation of the Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, exemplary punishment for all officials and police personnel responsible for the unprovoked violence, and the immediate, unconditional release of activist Sonam Wangchuk along with all detained students and youth. The Party also demands a total overhauling of the NEP and all the interconnected policies whose ultimate aim is saffronisation and corporatisation/commercialization of the Indian education system under the fascist regime.

We salute the solidarity extended across India for the struggle, and call upon all progressive-democratic forces to come forward to strengthen this movement of the youth and students ahead with a proper perspective and sustainable orientation, resisting and overcoming all heinous manoeuvres by the regime.

Central Committee
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Star

New Delhi
21 July 2026

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hame on the UN System and the Comity of Nations that Remain as Spectators!

Far-right, neo-fascist, Islamophobic Trump’s relaunching of the illegal war of aggression against Iran, now reaching its most terrorist phase, targeting civilians and strategic infrastructures including that of Iran’s oil production, blockade of Iranian ports and Strait of Hormuz, is now inflicting horrific levels of destruction on Iran. As part of Iran’s adorable resistance against the world’s biggest military machine, it is continuing with its retaliatory strikes on US military bases, inflicting immense damage over them across the Middle East. In spite of Trump’s claim on control over the Strait of Hormuz, it’s obvious that Iran will never cede its control over it. And Trump has cancelled all previous waivers that became part of the Pakistan-mediated truce that formally came into being on 17 June.

Even in this critical situation, the already defunct UN System remains as a mere edifice. Gulf monarchies are exposed as lackeys of US imperialism (and apologists of Zionism). And except for the usual anti-war statements, the ruling regimes of many countries are exposed as incapable to do anything. Trump’s unilateral aggression on Iran is continuing without any let up, even as the inter-imperialist contradictions between the US on the one hand, China and Russia on the other, are sharpening. While Russia’s direct involvement through military support to Iran is reported, China, under the cover of its usual anti-US rhetoric, is solely guided by its self-interest, and is taking advantage of the situation to strengthen China’s economic position and trade access in the region.

In this extremely reactionary global situation, where the International Communist Movement and progressive forces are weak and confronting many setbacks, this US imperialist offensive can be challenged only through the emergence of a powerful anti-imperialist and anti-fascist movement with a political program backed by the fighting unity of the working class and oppressed peoples of the world. Even to make use of the inter-imperialist contradictions in a critical situation such as this, the presence of an anti-war and imperialist movement at a global level is indispensable. To be precise, there is no short-cut other than a political leadership which is capable to effectively coordinate and lead the struggles of working and oppressed peoples of the world against imperialism and their lackeys, is the solution.

Down with US imperialism and Its Lackeys!
Down with Imperialism of all Hues!
Solidarity with the People of Iran!
Workers and Oppressed Peoples of the World Unite!

International Department
CPI (ML) Red Star

New Delhi
15 July 2026

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Comrade Subrata Basu, a senior leader of COI (ML), has passed away after a prolonged battle with cancer.

Comrade Basu joined the communist revolutionary movement in West Bengal in the early 1970s and remained steadfast in his commitment to the cause of revolution throughout his life. During the period from January 2005 to January 2009, we worked together in a united organisation, sharing common struggles and aspirations for the revolutionary movement.

With his passing, the communist movement has lost a dedicated revolutionary fighter whose contributions and commitment will be remembered by comrades and activists alike.

CPI (ML) Red Star extends its heartfelt revolutionary tributes to Comrade Subrata Basu and conveys its deepest condolences to his family, comrades, and associates.

Red Salute to Comrade Subrata Basu!

Party Centre
CPI (ML) Red Star

New Delhi
21 June 2026

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Modi Government’s Subservience to US Imperialism has further exposed

The Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Red Star strongly condemns the brutal attack by the United States on three Indian vessel that have claimed the lives of three Indian seafarers. We extend our heartfelt condolences to the families of the martyrs and express our solidarity with all those affected by this outrageous act.

This attack is yet another manifestation of the aggressive and interventionist character of U.S. imperialism, which has repeatedly violated the sovereignty and rights of nations across the world in pursuit of its hegemonic interests. The killing of Indian personnel cannot be justified under any circumstances and demands unequivocal condemnation.

At the same time, we strongly denounce the shameful servile conduct of the Modi government in the face of this grave incident. While the government routinely invokes nationalism for domestic political gain, its namesake protest and ritualistic response toward acts committed by powerful imperialist allies reveal the hollowness of its claims. The BJP-led regime’s growing strategic alignment with the United States has increasingly subordinated the interests of the country and its people under the geopolitical designs of Washington.

Instead of firmly defending the lives of Indian citizens and military personnel, the Modi government appears more concerned with preserving its strategic partnership with the United States. Such a posture amounts to a betrayal of national sovereignty and the interests of the Indian people.

CPI (ML) Red Star demands an immediate and unequivocal condemnation of the attack by the Government of India and a transparent international investigation into the circumstances surrounding the incident. Full accountability for those responsible for the deaths of the Indian Navy personnel and adequate compensation and support for the families of the deceased.

This tragic incident underscores the dangers inherent in the Fascist Modi regime’s growing integration with imperialist military and strategic frameworks. The Indian people must reject both imperialist aggression and the subordinate policies that place foreign interests above national sovereignty.

CPI (ML) Red Star calls upon democratic, progressive, and anti-imperialist forces across the country to raise their voice against this attack and against the continued subordination of India’s foreign policy to U.S. strategic objectives.

Down with US Imperialist Aggression!
Defend India’s Sovereignty and Independent Foreign Policy!
Long Live International Solidarity of the Working People!

International Department
Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Red Star

New Delhi
12. 06. 2026

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Being started as a spontaneous satirical internet protest against CJI’s insulting remarks comparing the unemployed youth of India as “cockroaches” and “parasites”, the Cockroach Janata Party has stepped off the viral world into the real world of action holding its street protest in Jantar Mantar on 6 June 2026. The CJP’s demand for the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, exposition of Exam Scams, Paper Leaks and shortcomings of related digital infrastructure, protest against unemployment, corruption and total erosion of administrative accountability, and so on under the crony-capitalist fascist regime, which is rotten to the core, need support and solidarity from all well- meaning people.

Of course, this is not the time to go for an evaluation of the ideological underpinnings of the CJP. Rather than a digital outlet relaying youth’s frustration, the relevance of CJP in the days ahead depends on the extent to which it can overcome or fill the gap between digital popularity and real-world mobilisation of youth, in tune with its declared position.

In the meanwhile, firmly upholding the inalienable right of the students and youth to organize, protest, and make their voices heard, it is the task of all progressive-democratic forces, irrespective of their ideological-political persuasion, to declare solidarity and support the CJP from the perspective of building up the broadest anti-fascist unity of the people.

Party Centre
CPI (ML) Red Star

New Delhi
08.06.2026

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It was on 28 May 2021 that Comrade Sivaram, Polit Bureau member and Odisha State Secretary of CPI (ML) Red Star departed us. The departure of Sivaram, a committed revolutionary, who led the Party in Odisha from its very inception, dedicated his entire life for the building up the Basti Surkshya Manch (Slum Movement) together with the Party. Comrade Sivaram’s untimely demise at a young age due to COVID pandemic that ravaged the whole world during 2020-21, was an irreparable loss to CPI ( ML) Red Star.

Red Salute to Comrade Sivaram!

P J James
General Secretary
CPI (ML) Red Star

New Delhi
28/05/2026

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The Supreme Court’s May 27 judgement upholding ECI’s claim of SIR as an essential, legal mechanism to maintain clean and accurate voter rolls by eliminating duplicate or ineligible entries, has once again ignored the core question of justice to the people who are excluded from the voterlist. The manner in which the ECI’s departure from earlier electoral revisions (such as the 2003 Revision that spread over six months and relied on existing electoral rolls and Voter ID cards) has led to targeted exclusion of the marginalised and disadvantaged sections, especially Muslims, Dalits and women, is not at all given proper consideration in the judgement. For instance, the so called “logical discrepancy”, voter objection process, etc., that were used even minor spelling variances for disproportionately targeting and excluding/deleting marginalized communities, religious minorities, migrant workers and women, especially across States like Bengal and Bihar, was not at all got proper consideration by the Court.

Of course, the judgement that justified the SIR process as a routine administrative exercise for ensuring free and fair elections, has further legitimised the entire claims of the Central regime regarding it. No wonder, the BJP that used ECI as an extension of the fascist regime for weaponising SIR to systematically carrying out mass disenfranchisement of minorities and oppressed sections, has wholeheartedly welcomed the judgement along with the claim that their electoral victory in Bengal and elsewhere was due to cadre network and grassroots organisational structure.

And, the SC giving a clean chit to SIR will have its ensuing repercussions, mainly in the case of citizenship itself. The process of denying welfare and democratic rights to the disenfranchised is already reported from States under the fascist “double engine”. No doubt, it is high time on the part of all the secular, democratic, and anti-fascist forces to take up SIR not as an isolated one, but as integrally linked up with the itensifying the majoritarian fascist agenda today.

P J James
General Secretary
CPI (ML) Red Star

New Delhi
28/05/2026

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Implementation of SIR in Karnataka: Withdraw the Fascist Attack on the Right to Vote Immediately!

CPI(ML) Red Star State Committee Demands

​The CPI(ML) Red Star Karnataka State Committee strongly condemns the “SIR” process being implemented in various parts of the country. We explicitly state that this is not merely an administrative measure; it is a political attack by the Sangh Parivar on the fundamental right to ordinary voting, which is the cornerstone of India’s constitutional democracy.

Instead of functioning as a constitutionally autonomous body, the Election Commission of India practically acting as a political tool of the BJP is an extremely dangerous development. The real intent behind the process being carried out in the name of “SIR” is not to purify the voter list; it is to purge the poor, Muslims, Dalits, women, migrant workers, minorities, and progressive people who vote against the BJP from the voters’ list. This is a Hindutva conspiracy to push people out of the voter list today, and out of the country tomorrow.

Such measures have been used experimentally in various states, including West Bengal. By removing the names of millions of people from the voters’ list, work has been done to distort the electoral process itself. This is not about preserving the democratic general election system; it is a political conspiracy to weaken the very existence of opposition parties and permanently establish a one-party, Hindutva-Corporate fascist rule.

The reason behind this is that when the ruling classes find their political dominance in jeopardy, they resort to the wicked path of curtailing people’s democratic rights. Today, the right to vote is under attack; tomorrow, authoritarian attacks on people’s right to organize, right to free speech, and right to protest will intensify further. Therefore, the struggle against SIR is not just an electoral question; it is a people’s struggle to save democracy in India.

The Congress government in Karnataka, led by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, must not remain silent on this issue and must explicitly oppose the implementation of SIR in the state. The CPI(ML) Red Star demands that the state government pass a resolution in the Legislative Assembly and exert pressure on the Supreme Court, the Election Commission, and the Central Government.

​Concurrently, we demand that the Supreme Court of India intervene immediately and halt this process which undermines the citizens’ right to vote.

​The CPI(ML) Red Star Karnataka State Committee calls upon all democratic forces in the state as follows: Muslims, Dalits, Adivasis, women, farmers, workers, student-youth organizations, social justice movements, and all opposition parties must unite to build a statewide struggle for the cancellation of SIR.

​Protecting the right to vote means protecting the survival of Indian democracy. Only a united struggle of the people against fascist forces can save the country.

​B. Rudrayya
State Secretary
CPI(ML) Red Star, Karnataka State Committee

17-5-2026
Bengaluru

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TUCI’s Objections to the Chhattisgarh Industrial Relations Code, 2026

— Comrade Saura
(State Convenor, TUCI Chhattisgarh & Organising Secretary, Progressive Anganwadi Workers and Helpers Union, Chhattisgarh)

We believe that the Chhattisgarh Industrial Relations Code, 2026, which seeks to replace the existing three labour laws/rules, is an attack on the rights of workers, especially unorganised workers. It has been framed entirely in line with the four labour codes introduced by the Modi government, which are pro-corporate and anti-worker. In the name of “labour reforms,” this code grants greater concessions to capitalists and corporate houses while weakening the collective strength of workers.

An analysis of its anti-worker aspects is as follows:

1. Harsh Restrictions on the Right to Strike

Earlier, prior notice before a strike was mandatory only in “public utility services.” Now, at least 14 days’ prior notice has been made compulsory in almost all industrial establishments.

We argue that:

Its objective is to make workers’ resistance against increasing corporate attacks on labour rights almost impossible.

During the notice period, management can resort to repression, retrenchment, or police intervention.

It becomes easier to declare strikes as “illegal” and take action against workers.

In practice, this amounts to restricting the constitutional and democratic right to strike.

2. Making Retrenchment and Closure of Factories Easier

Previously, industries employing more than 100 workers were required to obtain government permission before retrenchment, lockouts, or closure. Now this threshold has been increased to 300 workers.

This means:

Thousands of factories employing up to 299 workers can dismiss workers without government approval.

Permanent employment and job security are weakened.

It may become easier to target workers active in union activities.

Since most factories in the state employ fewer than 300 workers, this will have a widespread impact.

3. Replacing Permanent Employment with Casualisation

By promoting “Fixed Term Employment,” companies can:

Employ workers on contracts for a few months or years.

Remove them once the contract period ends, without permanent absorption.

Although the law claims that such workers will receive benefits equal to permanent employees, we believe that:

Job stability is destroyed.

Workers become less confident about forming unions.

Labourers are forced to live in constant insecurity.

This is effectively a move toward a “hire and fire” model.

4. Possibility of Weakening Trade Unions

The law requires 51% membership for a union to qualify as a “Negotiating Union.”

Practical problems include:

Many factories have multiple unions.

In the absence of 51% membership, management-backed unions may gain an advantage.

The role of smaller, militant, or independent unions may be restricted.

We see this as an attempt to control union plurality and democratic labour politics.

5. Special Impact on States Like Chhattisgarh

In mining and heavy-industry states like Chhattisgarh, the impact could be even deeper:

Contract labour may increase in coal, power, steel, and mining sectors.

Employment rights of displaced people may weaken.

Casualisation may increase in SECL, NTPC, private mines, and industrial projects.

Administrative repression against union-led struggles may become easier.

6. Exclusion of Irregular and Contract Workers

We believe that the definition of “government employees’ associations” in this code is intended only for regular permanent employees. Accordingly, irregular, contractual, casual, and contract workers are being deprived of their right to organise and collectively fight for their demands. This goes against the spirit of the Constitution.

7. Part of Neoliberal Economic Policies

We believe that Chhattisgarh’s new labour code is part of neoliberal economic policies aimed at making the labour market more “flexible” for corporate capital.

Instead, the state government should discourage contract labour, “hire and fire” practices, and temporary employment arrangements, while promoting permanent employment.

8. Undermining Democratic Trade Union Struggles

At the same time, excessive importance has been given to high-level committees and grievance redressal mechanisms for the settlement of labour disputes. Instead, democratic methods such as trade union struggles, strikes, and protests should be respected.

This is because it is not grievance committees, but the long struggles of workers to build trade unions and fight collectively, that remain the primary means of securing workers’ rights, especially for unorganised labourers.

— Comrade Saura
State Convenor
Trade Union Centre of India (TUCI)
Chhattisgarh State Committee

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