State machinery was widely employed to secure favourable outcomes in India’s recent regional elections against three progressive regional governments who dared to challenge Narendra Modi, asserts VIJAY PRASHAD
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Covid prevented last year's AGM, but your paper is working to hold one this autumn
People's Press Printing Society chair BOB ORAM explains our plans
It is too early to assume a US defeat in Iran — we must prepare for a long anti-war struggle, argues JOHN ROSS
ROGER McKENZIE says the ANC needs to respect South Africa’s Communists and their decision to stand independently at elections
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As Scotland heads to the polls, the main parties offer variations on the same script, says MATT KERR
IF, ON March 11 2020 when the World Health Organisation declared Covid-19 a pandemic you had told me we would have to not just cancel that year’s annual general meeting of the People’s Press Printing Society, but seriously delay the next year’s, I would not have believed you.
Trying to second guess the behaviour of a government that has played Covid like a game in a casino was not something the management committee was prepared to do and safety has always been foremost in our mind.
The pandemic is an experience none of us has ever had before and I believe your management committee’s decision to not go ahead with the usual cross-country AGM tour in 2020 was the right one.
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Our roving AGM from this Thursday through Sunday and our upcoming Morning Star Conference 2025 on June 14 in London are great opportunities to meet the team and help plan the way forward, says editor BEN CHACKO
