THE electronics giant Samsung is South Korea’s largest "chaebol," a term that refers to family-owned conglomerates. In 2022, Samsung's revenue accounted for 22.4 per cent of the country’s GDP, underscoring its unparalleled influence on South Korea's economy and politics.

The Communist Party of India (Marxist), Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation, All India Forward Bloc and Revolutionary Socialist Party have issued the following statement on September 26, 2024October 7, marks the completion of one year of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza. In the name of retaliating against the Hamas for the latter’s attack within Israel on October 7, last year, the Israeli armed forces have conducted a brutal and indiscriminate attack on Palestinians in Gaza.

WEST Africa, which had been largely under French colonial rule, never saw decolonisation of the sort that India did. For a start, the erstwhile French colonies’ currency continued to be linked to the French franc at a fixed exchange rate, which meant that they could not pursue any fiscal and monetary policy of their choice (for that would have threatened the fixed exchange rate).

THE CPI(M) Tripura state committee organised a remembrance meeting for Comrade Sitaram Yechury on September 24, at Rabindra Satabarshiki Bhavan, Agartala,.

SINCE the Russian military entered Ukraine, there have been six United Nations General Assembly resolutions about the ensuing war (ES-11/1 to ES-11/6). The voting record of the Global South countries, particularly the 54 African states, on these resolutions is notable. In only one resolution, which was about the referendum held in Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, and Zaporizhzhia oblasts (ES-11/4), did most African states (thirty of them) vote against Russia, with 24 states abstaining (none voted for the legality of the Russian referendum).