INDIA’S Communist-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) defied ruling party violence to win legislative elections in Kerala state yesterday.
Voting took place in five states over six weeks, with the count held yesterday.
The LDF won 91 of the 140 seats in Kerala, up 24 on the 2011 election, with more than three quarters of the state’s 26 million voters turning out.
Following the resignation of Nepali Prime Minister KP Oli amid mass youth-driven protests, different narratives have circulated which simplify and misrepresent the complexities and reality on the ground in Nepal at the roots of this crisis, argue VIJAY PRASHAD and ATUL CHANDRA
Indian communist leader MA Baby considers the chilling escalation of violence against minorities and increasing impunity for their attackers under the Modi regime
In an address to the Communist Party’s executive at the weekend international secretary KEVAN NELSON explained why the communists’ watchwords must be Jobs not Bombs and Welfare not Warfare


