Image via the PCC Via the Communist Party of Cuba, translated from the Spanish "Solidarity with Cuba is in our DNA," stated Pinarayi Vijayan, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Chief Minister of Kerala, while welcoming the delegation from the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) participating in an event on democracy and development in that Indian state. During the friendly meeting, the Cuban representatives reaffirmed the PCC's commit

Image via the PCC Via the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), translated from the Spanish New Delhi, Feb 16 (Prensa Latina): A Cuban official in Kerala, southern India denounced the fact that Cuba is currently living under an oil blockade by the United States that seriously affects the normal functioning of the economy and violates the fundamental human rights of its people. At the opening of the Vision 2031: Development and Democracy International Conference in southern India,

Pinarayi Vijayan speaks at an LDF rally in Kerala in January, 2026 -- image via Facebook By Nabil Abdul Majeed and Nitheesh Narayanan In 1945, two years prior to India’s independence, the current Chief Minister of Kerala, Pinarayi Vijayan, was born into a working-class family in northern Kerala. He was his mother’s fourteenth child; of the thirteen siblings born before him, only two survived. His mother was an agricultural labourer and his father a toddy tapper. They belonged

CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons By Dr Waseem Ahmad Bhat As the Indian Left completes a century of political existence, it finds itself at a moment that is both reflective and unsettled. Few political traditions have shaped the moral and institutional vocabulary of the Indian republic as deeply as the Left. From early interventions in debates on equality, labour rights, land reforms and federalism, the Left helped define the social ambitions of postcolonial democracy. Its f

The Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Democratic Alliance (LDF) government achieves a unique feat in India which, according to the World Bank, has the world’s largest number of extremely poor. Housing built as part of the poverty eradication program -- video screenshot image via the CPI(M) on Facebook By Abdul Rahman, People's Dispatch On Saturday, November 1, India’s southern state of Kerala officially declared itself free of extreme poverty. This makes the left-ru

Achuthanandan campaigning for the LDF in Kerala, 2016 -- Praveenp, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via...

A Communist flag flies in Kerala -- Praveenp, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons By Atul Chandra In a region too often consumed by the...

A targeted program has been undertaken to develop sustainable livelihoods for thousands of families suffering under extreme poverty. Mass...

The March 3 & 4 sessions of the CPI(M) Congress in Madurai dealt with issues including Kerala, Gaza, delimitation, national elections,...

Flags fly at a rally in Kerala in April - image via the CPI(M) The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) Polit Bureau met on June 9...

Image via the Democratic Youth Federation of India By Global News Service On January 20, more than two million people joined the massive...

With reports from Greece, Cuba, India, Nigeria, the USA, Canada, the UK and elsewhere. Thousands of strikers rally in Athens, Greece...

With news from France, Nigeria, Swaziland, Kenya, Kosovo, Canada, Cuba, Mexico, Malaysia, Mauritius, Colombia, Portugal, Romania and...

With news from the UK, Brazil, Swaziland, South Africa, Cuba, China, Tunisia, the USA, Belgium, Sweden, India and elsewhere. There is...

With news from India, Bolivia, Canada, Cuba, Venezuela, the UK and elsewhere. There are also a number of links related to the ongoing...

With news from the USA, Canada, Luxembourg, China, India the DPRK and elsewhere. There is also a special section related to statements by...

With news from Haiti, Cuba, Bolivia, the USA, Canada, Australia, France, the DPRK and elsewhere. There is also a special section related...

2021 is done and what a year it was. Along the way we saw momentous victories for the left in Kerala, Chile, Peru, Honduras and...

The thirty-fourth edition of our weekly review of international left and labour news with stories from Honduras, Australia, Laos, the US,...

The sixth edition of our weekly review of international left and labour news with stories from Zambia, Kerala, the United States,...