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On the fourth anniversary of his taking office on November 27, AMLO and his Moreno Party staged a march and then a rally in the Zócalo plaza in Mexico City. The crowd was such that the walk, with AMLO walking too, lasted five hours. Extracts from AMLO’s speech.
Indorca is a factory without bosses in the industrial city of Puerto Ordaz in Venezuela. Indorca’s workers carried out a heroic three-year struggle to gain control of the factory after the former owner brought it to a halt. In this interview, Indorca workers talk about their struggle.
The historical agitation by the coastal people of Trivandrum has crossed 120 days. The people are demanding that construction of the harbour be stopped and the destruction it has already caused to the coast be enquired into by an expert committee acceptable to fish workers also.
‘Priceless possession of a free India’: This was how Vallabhbhai Patel described Jawaharlal Nehru.
Jawaharlal Nehru was a leader in the long anti-colonial struggle to free his own land and to inspire a fighting will in other lands under bondage. He lived to see victory and to move then to another epochal confrontation—the fight for peace after the Second World War.
Apart from the warmth with which Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra has been received in the south of the country, Mallikarjun Kharge’s election as Congress president also opens the way for more equitable alliances with other opposition parties.
After one of the closest presidential elections ever in Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the Workers’ Party emerged the winner. We publish Lula’s election night victory speech as president-elect.
The result of the referendum on the new Family Code in Cuba, held on September 25, is a landmark victory for socialism, a major advance and a signal of the virtue of a genuine people’s democracy.
Guinea has the world’s largest reserves of bauxite and is the second-largest producer (after Australia) of the essential mineral for aluminum. All the mining is controlled by MNCs.
November 16 marks the 106th martyrdom day of one of the youngest heroes of the freedom movement, which right-wing forces have been demeaning these days.
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