After the anti-capitalist Left's unprecedented achievement in the first round, attention will now focus on Mélenchon’s engagement with the movementWITH the results now in from the first round of voting in France’s presidential elections, the two frontrunners, Emmanuel Macron of En marche! and Marine Le Pen of the fascist Front National, are drawing breath after making it through to the run-off.On the basis of a high voter turnout of 78-80 percent, both victors in fact performed short of projections made earlier in the campaign.

IT has been widely reported in the press that the Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath plans to carry out a survey of Muslim women to ascertain their keenness to get rid of triple talaq. Muslim women and Muslim women's groups across the country have been campaigning for several years against the practice of triple talaq and have filed several cases in the courts including the Supreme Court against this practice.

MAY Day, the traditional day for working class solidarity, is being celebrated around the world by workers, trade unions and political parties linked to the working class.It is an appropriate occasion to assess the worldwide political currents and how they relate to and affect the working class movement and Left politics.  The past year has seen a further shift to the right in most of the advanced capitalist countries.  The election of Trump as President in the United States came in the wake of the growing popularity of  extreme right and xenophobic parties in Europe.  The increase in the s

ASTONISHING the democracy-loving people of Tripura, BJP state president Biplab Deb boastfully declared: “As election was held in Uttar Pradesh and Manipur, it will recur in Tripura. Even if (Chief Minister) Manik Sarkar himself casts his vote for his party, that will be recorded in favour of lotus (BJP’s poll symbol).

THE Left parties, including the CPI(M), and various mass organisations commenced relay hunger strike demanding the TRS government to continue the dharna chowk at Indira Park in Hyderabad. Started by the Left parties on April 15, the relay hunger strikes by different mass organisations and different sections of the people would continue till the 14th May and culminate into occupation of Dharna Chowk on the 15th May.