Western Military Intervention Attempts to Stop Haiti’s Cycle of Protests

ON October 15, 2022, aircraft of the United States and Canada air forces delivered military equipment to the Haitian National Police (HNP), which the government of Haiti had previously purchased.

CPV Delegation Visits CPI(M) Headquarters

A delegation of Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) headed by Lam Van Man, Central Committee member and secretary of Soc Trang Provincial Party Committee and comprising Le Thanh Tung, deputy director general, department for research and general affairs, Commission for External Affairs, CPV Central Committee; Cao Xuan Mai, expert, department for people-to-people relations, Commission for External Affairs, CPV Central Committee and Nguyen Tran Xuan Son, expert, department for Southeast Asia, South Asia and South Pacific, Commission for External Affairs, CPV Central Committee met CPI(M) general s

Comrade Kumar Shiralkar: A Multi-Faceted Revolutionary

WITH the passing of Comrade Kumar Shiralkar on October 2, 2022 at the age of 80 due to cancer, the CPI(M) and the Left democratic movement of Maharashtra has lost a dedicated, multi-faceted revolutionary leader. I have lost a true comrade and friend of the last 40 years.Kumar was born in a middle-class family at Miraj in Sangli district of Maharashtra on January 10, 1942. He completed his B.E. (Mechanical) from the Walchand College of Engineering, Sangli.

CPI(M) Demands Scrapping of Unconstitutional MoUs

CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury, has written a letter to the chief election commissioner, Election Commission of India, on October 19, 2022, demanding scrapping of MoUs signed by Gujarat Election Commissioner with industrial units to monitor electoral participation of the workforce. Below we publish the text of the letter.THIS is to draw you attention to the extremely shocking news report (Indian Express, October 19, 2022) that "for the first time, over 1,000 corporate houses in Gujarat have signed agreements with the Election Commission (EC), und

CPI(M) Demands EC to Withdraw Proposal To amend Model Code of Conduct

The general secretary of CPI(M), Sitaram Yechury, has written a letter to the chief election commissioner, Election Commission of India on October 14, 2022 demanding withdrawal of the proposed amendment to the model code of conduct on promises made in election manifestos. Below we publish the text of the letter.

Kerala Governor’s Anti-Constitutional Remarks

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on October 17THE Governor of Kerala, Arif Mohammad Khan, has been acting in a manner which does not behove the constitutional post that he holds.The latest is a tweet from the official handle of the Kerala governor wherein the public relations officer of the Kerala Raj Bhavan has quoted the governor as saying that if statements of individual ministers lower the dignity of the office of the governor, then it can invite action including “withdrawal of pleasure”.This amounts to saying that the governor can dismiss

Kerala: PKS Jatha Receives Good Response

Thousands of members of Pattikajathi Kshema Samithi (Scheduled Caste Welfare Organisation) affiliated to the Dalit Shoshan Mukti Manch marched to the government secretariat in Thiruvananthapuram on October 11, marking the culmination of the month long state-wide jatha which started from Kasaragod on September 15. Slogans of the march were to ensure land and housing for all the Scheduled Castes and to introduce reservation in the private sector.

Hunger and Poverty

THE Global Hunger Index (GHI) for 2022 has just come out, which shows India occupying the 107th position among the 121 countries for which the index is prepared (countries where hunger is not a noteworthy problem are left out of the index). India’s score on the hunger index is 29.1 which is worse than the score of 28.2 it had in 2014. (The lower the figure the less is hunger).

Twentieth National Congress of CPC Opens in Beijing

THE highly anticipated 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) opened on the morning of October 16 at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.Xi Jinping delivered to the Congress a report titled "Hold High the Great Banner of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics and Strive in Unity to Build a Modern Socialist Country in All Respects." He pointed out, the 20th CPC National Congress is a meeting of great importance.

National Conference of Electricity Employees Calls upon Power Workers to Join ‘Bijili Kranti Yatra’

THE ninth conference of the Electricity Employees’ Federation of India (EEFI) was successfully concluded on October 15, 2022, in Chandigarh.

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