Ben Chacko

LATEST ARTICLES BY Ben Chacko

• News

  

  Ukraine’s fascist-backed government erasing Red Army from history

  December 23, 2020 By Ben Chacko

  Authorities in Lviv are dismantling the city’s Monument of Glory, a memorial to Red Army soldiers who died fighting the Nazi invasion.

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• World

  

  Venezuela’s Adán Chávez: ‘The U.S. has failed to beat us’

  December 7, 2020 By Ben Chacko

  Morning Star editor Ben Chacko speaks to the vice-chair of Venezuela’s ruling PSUV (Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela), Adán Chávez Frias, about the potential to diminish the right-wing bloc in the National Assembly at last and...

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• World

  

  Neo-Nazi groups targeted by German police raids

  December 2, 2020 By Ben Chacko

  The raids are the latest step in a national campaign against the neo-Nazi far right that has exposed its influence within Germany’s army and police.

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• World

  

  Iranian scientist’s assassination threatens to scuttle Biden’s revival of nuclear deal

  November 30, 2020 By Ben Chacko

  The Tudeh Party of Iran said the scientist “was assassinated in Tehran by Israeli agents with the full knowledge and support of the Trump administration."

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• Environment

  

  Indonesia: Mass strikes against ‘catastrophic’ assault on workers’ rights and environment

  October 8, 2020 By Ben Chacko

  The omnibus bill replaces 79 separate laws, reducing workers’ holidays and severance, allowing companies to keep workers on temporary contracts, and removing the requirement for environmental assessments of business projects.

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• News

  

  Coup figurehead drops out as Morales’s Socialists set to win Bolivian presidency

  September 18, 2020 By Ben Chacko
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• World

  

  Trade unions leading fight to protect workers from coronavirus around the world

  March 19, 2020 By Ben Chacko

  Unions are fighting to ensure workers receive sick pay, avoid catastrophic loss of income, and that governments put measures in place to protect them.

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• News

  

  Indian Communists fighting against Modi government’s racist citizenship bill

  December 5, 2019 By Ben Chacko

  The Communist Party of India-Marxist warned that the bill is part of the Hindu chauvinist BJP’s bid to transform India from a secular republic to a theocratic state.

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