Silicon Curtain: How US Sanctions Are Forging China's Tech Sovereignty

IN a bold challenge to US tech supremacy, Huawei has unveiled its most ambitious AI computing platform yet: the CloudMatrix 384, a high-performance AI training cluster based on its homegrown Ascend 910C chips. The platform is built to train large-scale AI models like those behind ChatGPT or Deepseek, which require enormous computing capacity.

All India Convention of Women Plantation Workers

THE first-ever All India Convention of Plantation Women Workers, organised by the All India Plantation Workers Federation (AIPWF), was held in Sulthan Bathery, Wayanad, Kerala, on May 13, 2025. The convention commenced with the flag hoisting by C K Unnikrishnan, President of AIPWF. V V Baby, Secretary of the Reception Committee and CITU Wayanad District Secretary, welcomed the delegates.

Maharastra: Comrade Lahanu Kom

VETERAN leader of the CPI(M) and the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) in Maharashtra, Comrade Lahanu Shidva Kom, ex-MP and ex-MLA, passed away early this morning on May 28, 2025 after a brief illness. He was 86 years old. He leaves behind his wife Hemlata (also a Party and AIDWA leader), a son, a daughter, and three grandchildren.Lahanu Kom was born on November 10, 1938 in an adivasi poor peasant family of Aagwan village in Dahanu tehsil in Palghar district.

The Guns Are Again Ablaze in Libya

ON May 12, 2025, Abdul Ghani al-Kikli, known to everyone in Libya as Ghnewa al-Kikli, was killed during a meeting inside a militia facility run by the 444th Combat Brigade in Tripoli. Ghnewa, as he was called, led the Stability Support Appartus (SSA), which had ruled parts of Tripoli, and indeed sections of northern Libya, with an iron fist. The leader of the 444 Brigade, Major General Mahmoud Hamza, celebrated his troops for ‘overthrowing the Ghnewa Empire’.

Punjab: Left Parties Condemn Politicisation of Armed Forces, Demand Inquiry into False Claims on Air Defence Deployment at Darbar Sahib

THE Punjab state committees of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), Communist Party of India, and Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation, in a joint statement issued on May 23, have condemned the “irresponsible and politically motivated attempt” to use the Indian Army for electoral and communal gains. The three parties demanded a high-level inquiry into recent claims regarding the deployment of Air Defence Guns at the Darbar Sahib complex in Amritsar, calling the statement false, misleading, and dangerous.The controversy erupted after Lt.

Kerala: Thousands Rally in Thrissur Against Politically Motivated ED Actions on CPI(M)

IN a powerful display of mass resistance, thousands gathered in Thrissur for a public protest organised by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Kerala state committee on May 28, voicing sharp opposition to the politically motivated actions by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) against the Party and its leaders in connection with the Karuvannur case.The protest was inaugurated by CPI(M) Polit Bureau member A Vijayaraghavan, who strongly condemned the misuse of central investigative agencies to target opposition parties.

Gaza Today: Live-Streamed Genocide

YAQEEN Hammad, a 12-year-old Palestinian girl, was shredded into pieces by an Israeli missile attack on her residence. Yaqeen has been aptly called the Anne Frank of Gaza. Like Anne, who kept a diary in an attic in a Holocaust-ravaged, Nazi-occupied neighbourhood, Yaqeen documented the horrors around her.

Economics and the Concept of Progress

THE mercantilists had defined a nation’s prosperity in terms of the amount of precious metals it possessed and a nation’s progress in terms of the increase in its amount of precious metals.

CPI(M) Condoles Com Tran Duc Luong

THE Communist Party of India (Marxist) expresses its profound grief at the passing away of Tran Duc Luong, former Polit Bureau member of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) and former President of Vietnam. He was born on May 5, 1937 and died on May 20, 2025 at the age of 88 years.Tran Duc Luong joined revolutionary activities in 1955 and joined the CPV in 1959. He served the Party and country in various capacities till he retired in 2008.

CITU General Council : Make July 9 General Strike a Huge Success

THE General Council of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) met in Surajkund, Faridabad, Haryana from May 24 to 26, 2025, and called upon the Indian working class to prepare for an All India General Strike on July 9, 2025. The aim is to make it the largest ever general strike in the history of the Indian working-class movement.

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