LATIN AMERICA: LEFT RESURGENCE, FAR RIGHT THREATS Recent developments in Latin America epitomise the global struggle between a resurgent left, and a powerful, internationally linked far-right, between visions of social justice and environmental protection, and. . .

Lula da Silva, the former President and Workers’ Party (PT) candidate, won the Brazilian presidency with a narrow margin in the runoff election held on October 30th, 2022. The current President Jair Bolsonaro, known as. . .

Gustavo Petro and Francia Marquez of the Historic Pact Coalition made history by winning the elections in Colombia on June 19, 2022 and were elected the President and Vice-President. Rodolfo Hernandez, the opposition candidate, lost. . .

After years of consistent protests by people's movements in Chile, a new draft Constitution, with several progressive provisions, was prepared to replace the Pinochet dictatorship era Constitution. During the first referendum held in October 2022. . .

“They have the force and will be able to dominate us, but social forces can be arrested by neither crime nor force. History is ours, and the people make history” - The Last Radio Broadcast. . .

Addressing a press conference in Patna on 13 August, CPIML General Secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya said that the ouster of the BJP from power in Bihar is a positive event for the entire country. The formation. . .

On August 15th – the occasion of the 76th Independence Day – in his speech, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that ‘we must respect women to develop as a country’ and stressed on the need. . .

AIPWA Statement On the 75th anniversary of India’s independence, 11 men sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering 7 Muslims and gang-raping a pregnant Bilkis Bano, walked free because the Gujarat Government chose to remit their. . .

For years, under BJP-JD(U) rule, the people’s voices and their demands were in the back foot and ignored. The terror and repression of BJP’s bulldozer raj against Muslims, Dalits, Adivasis and other oppressed sections of. . .

On August 12th, the Kozhikode Sessions Court granted bail to a 74-year-old social activist – Civic Chandran – observing that "The photographs produced along with the bail application by the accused would reveal that the. . .