Ben Chacko

LATEST ARTICLES BY Ben Chacko

• 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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• World

  

  Brazil: Former president Lula to prison; police fire on protesters

  April 9, 2018 By Ben Chacko

  Communist 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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• World

  

  Russia’s youth are turning to the Communists, not Putin

  March 27, 2018 By Ben Chacko

  People 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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