Ben Chacko

LATEST ARTICLES BY Ben Chacko

• 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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• World

  

  Ukrainian young Communists lead campaign against Zelensky land sell-off

  November 19, 2019 By Ben Chacko

  The president's proposal opens Ukraine’s agriculture to exploitation by U.S. and EU agribusiness.

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• Politics

  

  U.S. ‘bid to destroy Venezuela’ threatens foundations of international law, ambassador warns

  May 20, 2019 By Ben Chacko

  Washington’s bid to “destroy Venezuela” is wrecking the international laws governing relations between all states.

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• World

  

  Ukraine Communist leader warns: “The Nazis are coming”

  March 6, 2019 By Ben Chacko

  The destruction of a Soviet war memorial in Lviv by the Ukrainian government is a "spat in the face" of all who fought Hitler, says Communist Party leader.

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• World

  

  Russian Communists say Putin’s pledge to raise living standards not enough

  February 21, 2019 By Ben Chacko

  One Communist MP said the measures “only partially reflect" what his party has been proposing for years.

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