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.

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.

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.

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!

THE All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS), in a statement issued on May 27, has noted with grave concern that the central board of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has recently decided to transfer a record Rs 2.69 lakh crore surplus to the union government for the financial year 2024-25. The RBI took this decision after revising their Economic Capital Framework (ECF) which gave the apex regulator the flexibility for making smooth surplus transfers to the union government.