West Bengal: AIKS, AIAWU & CITU Begin Statewide Padayatra

THE time has come to turn around and resist. Padayatras (foot marches) are being organised in every district of West Bengal as part of statewide demonstrations called by state units of AIKS, AIAWU and CITU. The marches are being held across rural areas in each district from November 1. They will reach every booth highlighting the demands of the people of the village. The corruption of the ruling party and government will be the focus of the campaign.

The Importance of Lula’s victory

THE victory of Luiz Inacio ‘Lula’ da Silva in the Brazilian presidential elections was welcomed by the entire world with a sigh of relief. His election as the president of Brazil defeating the extreme-right incumbent president Jair Bolsonaro will have an impact on the future of Brazil and the entire Latin American region.Lula, a candidate of the Workers’ Party (PT) won 50.9 per cent of the votes, as against Bolsonaro’s 49.1 per cent in the run-off held on October 30, 2022.

CPC 20th Congress – Laying the Ground For Second Centenary Goal

THE report adopted in the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) is a political declaration and a programme of action for the Party to lead the country in securing new successes for socialism with Chinese characteristics. A resolution adopted in the Congress termed the report as ‘a guiding Marxist document’.Huge democratic exercise went into the preparation of the report, prior to the Congress.

Lula’s Victory in Brazil Is Also a Victory for the World

ON October 30, 2022, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (known as Lula) won the second-round of the presidential election in Brazil. The vote, in the end, was tight, with Lula prevailing with 50.9 per cent (60 million votes) over the incumbent president Jair Bolsonaro’s 49 per cent (58 million votes). Lula won decisively in the north and north-east of Brazil, areas that have large populations of Afro-Brazilian and indigenous voters, while Bolsonaro prevailed in the south.

Emissions Gap Report 2022: Little Hope

THE UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has, as per usual practice, released its Emissions Gap Report (EGR) 2022 on the eve of the forthcoming COP27 meeting in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt. All countries had been required to submit updated and more ambitious Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) by September 2021, before COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland. The previous EGR 2021 released prior to COP26 had taken into account progress on implementation of NDCs as committed under the Paris Agreement (PA) in 2015, as well as projections based on the updated NDCs tabled before Glasgow.

Delhi: Skill Development Centre Set-up in North-East Delhi

AMIDST a festive atmosphere, A Vijayaraghavan, Polit Bureau member of the CPI(M) inaugurated the Skill Development Centre built by the Major Jaipal Singh Memorial Trust at Brijpuri in North-East Delhi on October 31, 2022. This is the area which lost 54 innocent lives and which saw widespread damage to property in one of the worst communal violence engineered by the RSS-BJP in February 2020.

Cooperatives Against Corporates: Coffee Farmers Hold First Conference

THE founding all India conference of the Coffee Farmers Federation of India (CFFI), held on October 26-27, 2022 at Vellamunda, Wayanad authored a new chapter in the crop wise mobilisation of Indian peasantry. CFFI, affiliated to All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) is a federation of coffee farmers associations in major coffee producing states of Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.

Central Committee Communique

CPI(M) Central Committee met in New Delhi from October 29-31, 2022. It has issued the following statement on November 1.SHOCKING ACCIDENT IN MORBI, GUJARATThe Central Committee expressed its deep condolences to the families of over 140 people who lost their lives in the tragic collapse of the bridge in Morbi town in Gujarat. Many more are injured. The injured must be immediately provided with all required medical care and assistance. Reportedly, this bridge was opened after renovation without a safety audit being conducted.

Is the Rupee Fall Over?

THE mounting pressure on rupee-dollar exchange rate is not going to ease out in the near future. In April 2021 one dollar was exchanged against 74.47 rupees which has touched 80.23 in September 2022 and exchange rate further fell to 83.2 per dollar on October 20, 2022.

Significance of October Revolution in Our Times

THE world today seems very far away from those heady revolutionary days when the October Revolution in Russia happened. It is 105 years since this historic revolution took place which resulted in the world’s first socialist State. It is 31 years since the end of the Soviet Union, the period since which was marked by the ascendancy of imperialism.The three decades since 1991 saw a renewed round of aggressive wars of intervention by US imperialism and NATO. The targets were developing countries which did not possess nuclear weapons and had comparatively weaker armed forces.

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