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Dr. Ashok Mitra who passed away on the morning of May 1, 2018, was the doyen of Left intellectuals in the country.

1st of May 2018: आज लातेहार ज़िले (झारखंड) के मनिका प्रखंड में सैंकड़ों ग्रामीण मज़दूरों ने जोश से भरे अन्तराष्ट्रीय मज़दूर दिवस के जश्न में भाग लिया. हालांकि यह कार्यक्रम हर साल होता है, इस वर्ष मज़दूर उनके साथ हाल में हुए अन्यायों के कारण और अधिक आक्रोशित हैं.

Hundreds of rural workers took part in a spirited celebration of International Workers’ Day today[1st of May 2018] in Manika (Latehar District, Jharkhand). This is an annual event, but this year rural workers in Manika were particularly agitated because of the recent injustices they have suffered. One of them is the stagnation of NREGA wages.

four posters from France around the 1st of May the international day of workers

In the CPI Party Congress in Kollam (Quilon), Kerala last week a vendetta was publicly unleashed by a senior CPI leader against a leading intellectual activist of the CPI. The aim was to sideline the intellectual comrade through a vilification campaign in the presence of a large number of comrades.