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How did Left parties achieve major victories in India’s Indigenous regions?

The Indian Left won significant electoral victories in recent elections despite ruling BJP’s attempts at sectarian polarization

Sitaram Yechury: a true communist leader and champion of internationalism

The veteran Marxist and general secretary of India’s largest left party, CPI (M), died due to prolonged illness on September 12 in Delhi at the age of 72.

Left-led anti-femicide demonstrations enter third week in India’s West Bengal

Protests against the rape and killing of a woman doctor have faced massive repression and attempts by the right-rwing to infiltrate it in orde to push regressive agenda

Kerala, India’s Communist-led state, provides a model for digital literacy

“Little Kites” program introduced in public schools in 2018 has prepared over 1.2 million students for the future with a sense of community and sharing

‘Farmers’ victory will be a boost to all democratic struggles’

On 19 November 2021, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi announced that the government will be repealing the three controversial farm laws. Farmers have been protesting for close to a year against these laws

Farmers movement India After a year of struggle by farmers, Indian government forced to withdraw farm laws

Movements across India celebrated the struggle by the farmers during which they faced great repression and vilification. Around 750 people are believed to have died during the agitation which saw thousands camp on the borders of Delhi

A year after the anti-Muslim pogrom in Delhi, justice remains elusive for victims

Victims and survivors of the five-days long violence by mobs led allegedly by the far-right leaders of the BJP recollected their horrors at a press conference organized by the Communist Party of India (Marxist)

India’s discriminatory and divisive citizenship bill sparks mass protests

Across India, people have taken to the streets against the discriminatory and unconstitutional bill passed in both houses of parliament that implicitly turns Muslims into second class citizens in the country

Indian communist parties call for countrywide protest from October 10 Indian communist parties call for countrywide protest against far-right govt. from October 10

The call for the weeklong protest against the economic crisis caused by the Indian government’s policies was given at a national convention organized by CPI(M), CPI, CPIML, AIFB and RSP.

The battle against the far-right: Indian Elections 2019

Peoples Dispatch takes a look the 2019 Indian election process, who are the major actors, the position of the left parties and what is at stake.