THE 22nd International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties (IMCWP) held from October 27-29 at the Havana Convention Palace was attended by delegates from 65 countries from all the continents. ‘United we are stronger’ is the slogan of the event in which representatives of 82 political forces and 31 delegations headed by their presidents or general secretaries participated. The theme of the IMCWP is ‘Solidarity with Cuba and all the struggling peoples.

THE TET (Teachers Eligibility Test) qualifiers for the year 2014 are still on the wait and on-road too! They qualified in the exam with all that is required, but the government of West Bengal is still in favor of those who ‘managed’ ‘somehow’ to get the appointment. The current education minister of West Bengal justifies chief minister’s primary concern which is that she doesn’t want anyone to ‘lose the job’.

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

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) 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