Ben Chacko
LATEST ARTICLES BY Ben Chacko
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Russian Communists say Putin’s pledge to raise living standards not enough
February 21, 2019One Communist MP said the measures “only partially reflect" what his party has been proposing for years.
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Brazil: Former president Lula to prison; police fire on protesters
April 9, 2018Communist Party leader Luciana Santos said, “Lula is trapped because in one of the most unequal countries in the world, he ruled mainly for the poor.”
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Russia’s youth are turning to the Communists, not Putin
March 27, 2018People say it’s only the older generation who support the communists—the nostalgic Soviet generation who are dying out. Actually it’s the opposite.
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Russia marks 75 years since Nazi surrender at Stalingrad
February 5, 2018With over a million deaths, it was history's bloodiest battle and started the Nazis on their long retreat back to Berlin.
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China and Russia hit back at ‘imperial’ U.S. security strategy
December 19, 2017Beijing says Trump exhibits a "Cold War mentality," while Moscow denounces the security strategy as "imperial."
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India’s Congress party asks Communists for support
December 18, 2017Both Congress and the Communist Party of India-Marxist have denounced Prime Minister Narndra Modi’s Hindu chauvinist BJP government as fascist.
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Russian Revolution at 100: Time to challenge capitalism again
October 13, 2017The events of that October night in Russia a hundred years ago are not going to be replicated, but the experiences of the world’s first socialist country are still relevant.
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Statues fall too in Ukraine, as fascists erase Soviet past
September 11, 2017Ukraine's Communist Party leader Petro Symonenko speaks to Ben Chacko about the wave of historical destruction engulfing his country.
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