Venezuela Elections – Overcoming Odds, Maduro Triumphs

VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro was re-elected as the president on May 20, with 6.2 million votes, beating out his closest rival Henri Falcon, who secured 1.9 million votes. Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE) announced the result stating that Maduro had won with 67.79 per cent of all votes cast, ahead of Henri Falcon, who won 21.01 per cent.

Meanwhile in Tripura

BULDOZING OF DEMOCRACY CONTINUESNot content with suppressing all sorts of democratic rights of the opposition, the new BJP-IPFT government of Tripura is now busy in demolishing offices of opposition and trade unions all over the state. This new spate of eviction of opposition and trade unions from their offices started on May 8.

#Marx at 200: The Moscow Event

#MARX at 200 has triggered major efforts by several Communist Parties, progressives, social scientists, academia and those simply looking for alternatives to the contemporary neoliberal dead end.

Marx 200-Capital 150 Celebrations in Bengaluru

A SEMINAR on ‘Class struggle and eradication of caste oppression and untouchability – A Marxist view’ was organised in Bengaluru on May 20 as part of the “Marx 200-Capital 150” celebrations. Navakarnataka and Kriya – the two largest publishers of progressive Kannada literature – organised the event to mark the 200th birth anniversary of Karl Marx and 150th year of his magnum opus Capital. In his keynote address to the seminar, renowned economist Venkatesh Athreya said, “Caste system by controlling access to property and choice of occupation is an integral part of the relations of

On Fixed Term Employment – Another Attack on the Working Class

THE 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) strongly condemns the BJP-led government’s latest attack on the working class in the form of extending Fixed Term Employment to all sectors through a notification amending the Industrial Employment (Standing Order) Rules. This move is an integral part of the neoliberal agenda of labour law “reforms” that are meant to impose conditions of virtual slavery on the working class.

Assault on Environmental Regulations: Reaching a Peak?

THE BJP government has continued its inexorable march towards severely diluting the already weak environmental regulations in the country, as part of its drive to promote “ease of doing business,” in other words to serve the interests of the corporate class.

TRIPURA: Attacks on the Left Continue Unabated

NOT a day has passed without at least one incident of violence against the Communists in the state since March 3 afternoon when the Assembly election results were announced and the BJP-Indigenous People's Front of Tripura (IPFT) took to power.Nandalal Debbarma, 81, a CPI(M) leader had donated a piece of his land at Veluarchar in Sonamura sub-division to construct CPI(M) local committee office. Seeing the office vandalised, the senior leader, rueing the loss, said that he would have taken a blow to his head instead of seeing the Party office destroyed by the BJP goons.

ASSAM: Karl Marx Bicentenary Meet

AA A SEMINAR on ‘Relevance of Marxism in the present situation’ was organised by CPI(M) Kamrup Mahanagar district committee to mark the bicentenary of Karl Marx on May 14 at Lakhiram Barua Sada in Guwahati.About 250 members attended the seminar where chief speaker Ashok Dhawale, Central Committee member of CPI(M) and president, AIKS, spoke at length about the life of struggles of Karl Marx, the revolutionary and scientific aspects of his philosophy.Analysing the present situation in the country, Dhawale said that Karl Marx, in his writings on India, said that caste system was the biggest hi

Bankers Union Demands Wilful Defaulting be Made Criminal Offense

THE Bank Employees Federation of India (BEFI), in view of recent incidents of defaulters like Nirav Modi denting banks with huge sums of money, has urged the government to implement the four demands they have been making since many years, to safeguard public sector banks of the country.In an official press release given on May 18, the Federation demanded that wilful default in repayment of bank loans be made a criminal offense and deterrent punishment must be meted out to the culprits.The BEFI also demanded that all assets of the defaulting corporates, their promoters and the in-house direc

PROTEST AGAINST POLLUTION IN TUTIKORIN: CITU Condemns Brutal And Murderous Police Firing

THE Centre of Indian Trade Unions, in a statement issued on May 23, has vehemently condemned the brutal and murderous police firing on people protesting against pollution by a copper smelter plant of M/s Sterlite at Tutikorin, Tamil Nadu killing 12 persons and injuring hundreds.The people of that region have been agitating since long demanding concrete action by the government to prevent the atmospheric pollution being generated by the Sterlite’s Copper Smelter Plant, creating menacing impact on the lives and health of the people in that region.

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