The result has been a massive outpouring of popular anger against the Trump Administration within the US itself. The European allies of the US have also begun to distance themselves from the Trump Administration, many refusing to offer any cooperation to the US war campaign. Arab countries offering military bases to the US and global technology giants operating from the Gulf region are increasingly feeling the heat of the war.
India too is having to pay a heavy price for the war waged by the US and Israel, with whom the Modi government has closely and disastrously aligned India. Nearly ten million expatriate Indian workers and professionals working in West Asia are now living in the shadow of tremendous uncertainty and insecurity. The war has created a major crisis of fuel and fertilizer in India. For millions of migrant workers, it is like a return to the Covid period lockdown when sheer survival had become such a big challenge. The combination of deep economic crisis and stark foreign policy failure marks a new juncture for our struggles in India, and we must respond with a bold anti-imperialist anti-fascist line of resistance.
As we observe our 57th foundation anniversary, we can see new signs of unrest among the people of India. Millions of people across India are now having to fight for their right to vote, the most fundamental democratic right enjoyed by generations of Indians since the adoption of the Constitution. Protests are erupting among workers against the new labour codes, especially against the imposition of longer working hours. The trade deal with the US has disastrous implications for India's agriculture and farmers are getting ready for another round of decisive struggle to save agriculture from imperialist takeover. The question of rural employment guarantee is attracting renewed attention in the wake of the dismantling of the MGNREGA legislation. The stalling of the UGC regulations has rekindled the quest for meaningful social justice. 2026-27 marks the run-up to the centenary of two landmark events in India's history of anti-caste movement - Mahad Satyagraha (20 March, 1927) and the public burning of Manusmriti (25 December, 1927) and bi-centenary of Jyotiba Phule, one of the greatest pioneers of the quest for social equality and emancipation.
CPI(ML) is a party born in the fire of the great Naxalbari peasant upsurge. A party which proudly inherited the revolutionary legacy of the entire communist movement and has continued to renew itself by drawing on the strength, courage and initiative of the people in the face of all odds. The ruling classes across the world have written obituaries of the communist movement from time to time, but the movement has defied such triumphalist declarations and bounced back.
Today when the fascist rulers seek to malign the communists while suppressing and betraying the nation and its people with the blessings of imperialism, the CPI(ML) will have to uphold the communist banner and lead the struggle for a genuinely sovereign secular socialist democratic republic. Let us expand and strengthen the CPI(ML) in every possible way to fulfill the dreams of our great martyrs and serve the interests of our great people.
- Central Committee, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation)
