Today marks the 99th birthday of Comrade V.S. Achuthanandan. He was a freedom fighter, Kerala's Chief Minister, and one of the most powerful leaders in the CPI (M) and CPI(M) Kerala state unit secretary. He'd spent nearly six years in prison and five years underground. #CPIM

Comrade Sitaram Yechury has written the following letter to the Chief Election Commissioner, ECI demanding scrapping of MOUs signed by Gujarat Election Commissioner with industrial units to monitor electoral participation of the workforce.

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This struggle must be organised, according to “all the rules of the art”, by people who are professionally engaged in revolutionary activity. -Lenin

Comrade Brinda Karat, the great Indian communist revolutionary woman leader, celebrates her 75th birthday today. She was a PBM member of the CPI (M), fearless fighter for the rights of the oppressed and poor, and one of the tallest leaders of the Indian Communist movement.

Workers demand #festivalallowance thehindu.com/news/cities/pu…

On Oct 19, 1980, following 20 years of vehement anti-unionism, the J.P. Stevens and Company signs its first contract with the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union. The famous labor movie 'Norma Rae' was based on this struggle. (: Crystal Lee Sutton, the Real Norma Rae)

Capitalist forces assassinated comrade Samora Moisés Machel on October 19, 1986. He was a revolutionary socialist leader, Mozambique's first President, Chairman of the M-Liberation Front, Africa's most celebrated liberation hero and anti-colonial Marxist-Leninist revolutionary.

Gerrard Winstanley was born on October 19, 1609. He was ranked eighth from the top of the Obelisk of Revolutionary Thinkers. He was the founder and leader of the English group known as the True Levellers or Diggers for their advocacy of communal ownership and social equality.

Capital is an international force.
To vanquish it, an international workers' alliance, an international workers' brotherhood, is needed. We are opposed to national enmity and discord, to national exclusiveness. We are internationalists - Lenin

பட்டுக்கோட்டை கல்யாணசுந்தரம் குறிப்பிட்டதை போல
தாயால் பிறந்தேன் தமிழால் வளர்ந்தேன்
நாயே உன்னை நடுத்தெருவில் நேற்று சந்த்தித்தேன்
நீ யார் எங்களை இந்தி படிக்க சொல்ல!
தோழர் தா.முருகன்
சிபிஐ(எம்) #CPIMDemands #StopHindiImposition #BJPGovt #RSS #RSS Terror #BJPDestroyingIndia

On October 18, 1967, the Venera-4 space station received the first scientific data from the surface of Venus. The Venera-4 was launched on June 12, 1967. Venera 7 made the first successful soft landing on Venus in 1970. #Soviet #USSR #Workingclass

Revolutionary greetings to Comrade D. Raja was re-elected General Secretary of the Communist Party of India at the 24th CPI Party Congress in Vijaywada. #DRaja #CPI #CPI M

#Onwardsto35thAIKSConference A wealth of stories, data, and organisational minutes lies captured in old documents of #AIKS . In the coming days we will be sharing here some insightful observations made by AIKS leaders on agrarian developments of 1940s and 1950s. #agrarianhistory

The South Korean uprising against the USA dictatorship, which began two days earlier in Busan, spread to Masan on October 18, 1979. The protest influenced the Gwangju Uprising and the June Democracy Movement, and President Park Chung-hee was assassinated on October 26, 1979.

Hunger! #GlobalHungerIndex

The PILs against remission in #BilkisBano case are filed by CPI(M) member @SubhashiniAl, journalist Revati Laul, Prof Roop Rekha Verma,TMC MP Mahua Moitra, Dr Meeran Chadha Borwankar(ex- IPS), Madhu Badhuri (ex- IFS ), activist Jagdeep Chhokar

#SupremeCourtOfIndia

Kolkata: GS Com. Sitaram Yechury, PBM Com. Md Salim delivered keynote address on 'Contemporary India and challenges before us' in a program organised to mark foundation day of the Communist Party. PBM com. Surjya Kanta Mishra presided over the meeting.