The Guns Are Again Ablaze in Libya

ON May 12, 2025, Abdul Ghani al-Kikli, known to everyone in Libya as Ghnewa al-Kikli, was killed during a meeting inside a militia facility run by the 444th Combat Brigade in Tripoli. Ghnewa, as he was called, led the Stability Support Appartus (SSA), which had ruled parts of Tripoli, and indeed sections of northern Libya, with an iron fist. The leader of the 444 Brigade, Major General Mahmoud Hamza, celebrated his troops for ‘overthrowing the Ghnewa Empire’.

Punjab: Left Parties Condemn Politicisation of Armed Forces, Demand Inquiry into False Claims on Air Defence Deployment at Darbar Sahib

THE Punjab state committees of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), Communist Party of India, and Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation, in a joint statement issued on May 23, have condemned the “irresponsible and politically motivated attempt” to use the Indian Army for electoral and communal gains. The three parties demanded a high-level inquiry into recent claims regarding the deployment of Air Defence Guns at the Darbar Sahib complex in Amritsar, calling the statement false, misleading, and dangerous.The controversy erupted after Lt.

Kerala: Thousands Rally in Thrissur Against Politically Motivated ED Actions on CPI(M)

IN a powerful display of mass resistance, thousands gathered in Thrissur for a public protest organised by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Kerala state committee on May 28, voicing sharp opposition to the politically motivated actions by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) against the Party and its leaders in connection with the Karuvannur case.The protest was inaugurated by CPI(M) Polit Bureau member A Vijayaraghavan, who strongly condemned the misuse of central investigative agencies to target opposition parties.

Gaza Today: Live-Streamed Genocide

YAQEEN Hammad, a 12-year-old Palestinian girl, was shredded into pieces by an Israeli missile attack on her residence. Yaqeen has been aptly called the Anne Frank of Gaza. Like Anne, who kept a diary in an attic in a Holocaust-ravaged, Nazi-occupied neighbourhood, Yaqeen documented the horrors around her.

Economics and the Concept of Progress

THE mercantilists had defined a nation’s prosperity in terms of the amount of precious metals it possessed and a nation’s progress in terms of the increase in its amount of precious metals.

CPI(M) Condoles Com Tran Duc Luong

THE Communist Party of India (Marxist) expresses its profound grief at the passing away of Tran Duc Luong, former Polit Bureau member of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) and former President of Vietnam. He was born on May 5, 1937 and died on May 20, 2025 at the age of 88 years.Tran Duc Luong joined revolutionary activities in 1955 and joined the CPV in 1959. He served the Party and country in various capacities till he retired in 2008.

CITU General Council : Make July 9 General Strike a Huge Success

THE General Council of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) met in Surajkund, Faridabad, Haryana from May 24 to 26, 2025, and called upon the Indian working class to prepare for an All India General Strike on July 9, 2025. The aim is to make it the largest ever general strike in the history of the Indian working-class movement.

Commemorating P Sundarayya's 40th Death Anniversary

THE P Sundarayya Memorial Trust (PSMT) commemorated the 40th death anniversary of the legendary freedom fighter and towering peasant leader P Sundarayya by organising a book discussion on the book “A Peoples’ History of the Farmers’ Movement, 2020-21”, edited by Shamsher Singh and Sabah Siddiqui, on May 19, 2025 at the Harkishan Singh Surjeet Bhawan in New Delhi.

Apple’s Relocation and Tim Cook’s Dilemma!

ACCORDING to Donald Trump it is time for a reverse relocation of manufacturing from the Global South to the US. He expressed his anguish to Apple CEO Tim Cook for the plan to extend operations in India. US now needs manufacturing because by relocating low value-added assembling, they would be able to provide jobs to average Americans who badly need them. Apple employs 3 lakh workers in China and 60,000 in India. If these facilities are relocated, US could straight away create about 3.5 lakhs new jobs!

Unseasonal Rains: Over 80 Dead, Huge Damage to Crops, Orchards - AIKS Demands Ex-Gratia

FOLLOWING unseasonal heavy rains and thunderstorms in several states killing at least 80 persons and livestock, and causing heavy damage to crops and orchards, the All-India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) has demanded ex-gratia to the families of the deceased and adequate compensation to farmers.In a press statement issued on May 23, AIKS said “large-scale deaths due to thunderstorms and heavy rainfall have been reported from Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Haryana and other states.

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