The US has announced the imposition of a naval blockade on Venezuela after months of military build up in the Caribbean, including blowing up boats, killing people, and illegally seizing an oil tanker.

Delhi is officially recording AQI levels higher than 400, but many suspect that the real levels are much higher. According to the WHO, an AQI level above 50 is unhealthy to live in.

After the attack, in which 26 people were killed, India’s ultra right-wing government announced the suspension of a decades-old river water treaty with neighboring Pakistan, blaming it for being behind the attack without providing any evidence

Across India, members of farmers’ groups, trade unions and women’s and students’ organizations held aloft black protest flags and burnt copies of the three controversial farm laws which have been fiercely opposed

We also look at the preparations for a strike by motor workers in South Africa.

We also report on the issue of wage hike raised by South African security guard unions.

N N Banerjee of the Indian Railways Employees Federation (IREF) talks about the struggles ahead for the railway unions in India.

We report on Kashmir solidarity protests in India and across the globe.

Hundreds of party members and activists protested in New Delhi and other parts of the country against the BJP government’s decision to abrogate a constitutional provision that protected the autonomy of the State of Jammu and Kashmir

Protests were organized in New Delhi and other states by Left parties and organisations terming the Indian government’s decision to remove the autonomy to Kashmir as an attack against constitution of country and the people of Kashmir.

The families, hailing from Piro block in the Angara village of Bhojpur district, resorted to land occupation as the government was delaying the land allotment allegedly in collusion with the local feudal and upper caste forces. 

“Any capitulation to the United States, at the cost of sovereignty and self-respect of India, is unacceptable”