Dear Reader,
How does it feel to have witnessed another revolution round the sun, 12 flippings of the calendar pages, and 365 glances at the headlines showing the endless brutalities of the organised state squeezing the last drop of vital force from the scattered masses? Did you notice how the government in India is chipping away diligently at every social welfare measure that was ‘given’ to the people? How the rural poor is turning poorer with their last straw being snatched in the name of Ram in this RSS-BJP-led Ram Rajya? How the urban poor is being crushed under the bulldozer raj everywhere? How the new labour code is undoing the progress made historically by Communist struggles and labour movements throughout the world? Are you watching how the state is using its tentacles to strip the citizens of their voting rights while upholding the facade of an electoral democracy? Are you too struggling to access education, healthcare, transport, and employment? Are you overwhelmed by the Godi media’s constant peddling of anti-minority hate that is blinding the people to these everyday acts of daylight robbery perpetrated by the government?
Have you been following how hundreds of Adivasis are being killed with impunity under Operation Kagar for merely protecting their jal-jangal-jameen and the right to dignified living? Did you tremble at the complicity of the Hon’ble Supreme Court in enabling razing of the Aravallis by putting a height limit on a two-billion year old weathering landform? Have you been able to find any ‘conclusive data’ regarding the direct correlation between higher AQI levels and lung diseases unlike our Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change? Can you spot a single spot in India that has not been scoured for mineral wealth, that has not seen state-sponsored eviction, that has not seen a severing of centuries of livelihood practices, and has seen some real compensation and rehabilitation into even a comparable existence? Could you keep track of the number of floodings that took lives across India this year? Do you wonder who is to blame for these extremes, both political and climatic?
Alongside rising sea levels, do you feel the global wave of fascism crashing at your doorstep in the form of Hindutva? Do you see the extreme measures fascism is taking up to divide the people, trump up intense anti-minority hate, suppress working class movements, and crush dissent with an iron fist? Do you see the use of the state apparatus- be it the armed forces, the judiciary, the bureaucracy, or the executive, to ensure that the wealthiest can continue extracting more wealth? Did you come across the recently released World Inequality Report 2026 that states that less than 0.001% of the population (<56,000) hoards three times more wealth than half of humanity combined? Does this vulgar polarisation of wealth and society make you angry?
Do the continued killings of the Palestinian children and people by the Israeli Occupation Forces make you wish for the abolition of the US-backed settler-colonial state of Israel? Does the US trumping up a war frenzy against Venezuela make you wish for the death of this imperialist system that values oil more than human lives? Do you see the price that the Sudanese people are paying for defending their resources against a UAE-backed militia, a price so hefty that it is visible from the heavens? Are you longing for an end to this overwhelming misery, bloodshed, starvation, and displacement?
Amid all this din, do you also notice the people spontaneously rising in resistance against every wrong and injustice done to them? Do you see how the workers and farmers are unitedly fighting against agrarian distress and the new labour codes? Did you see the deluge of protests against the Aravalli judgment that made the highest court retract its decision? Do you see how struggles against displacement are becoming an integral part of people’s lives, blurring the rural-urban, farmer-fisher, and religious divides? Are you watching how the precarity of jobs is pushing even white-collar workers to rise in protest against their employers and making the unemployed spill into the streets?
Have you seen the global support for Palestine, particularly in the form of the vehicles of solidarity like the Freedom Flotillas? Are you watching the massive workers’ protests in the advanced capitalist countries that expose how these states are unable to pacify their working classes anymore? Did you see the unemployed, underpaid youth leading rebellions against the corrupt governments of Nepal, Indonesia, Timor-Leste, Madagascar, Mexico, Morocco, and Bulgaria? In this age of advanced multi-polar imperialism do you see the possibility of revolutions coming closer and closer?
If you do, dear reader, then let us become travellers together on the path less traversed, the path of the communist alternative. With the deepening crisis of world imperialism, the relevance of the communist movement becomes even stronger today as we observe the 100th year of its inception in India. For this very reason, we do not stop at just telling you that it is raining outside, rather we tell you that the rain has been caused by the excesses of this imperialist epoch.
Guided by your unwavering support we hope to carry this dream on and imbue you to dream of a world free of inequality and exploitation, where no class thrives on others’ labour, and where the doom of the world does not hang over us like the Sword of Damocles.
