Import tariffs are an instrument used by capitalist governments to protect domestic producers from competition by foreign producers of similar items. They also serve as a source of tax revenue. Like all other indirect taxes, import tariffs raise the selling price of goods in the retail market.
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Farmers in India and UK oppose India-UK Free Trade Agreement
The Free Trade Agreement signed between India and the UK is aimed at advancing the interests of monopoly capitalists of the two countries, including those involved in trade in farm produce. Farmers in both the countries are justified in opposing the FTA.
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On the 80th anniversary of the surrender of Nazi Germany
9 May 2025 marked the 80th anniversary of the surrender of Nazi Germany, bringing to end the Second World War in Europe.
This is a day that progressive and peace loving people of the whole world commemorate to honor the unimaginable sacrifices made by millions of people from all countries to liberate the world from the scourge of Nazi fascism. It is a day to honor and salute the heroic deeds of the people of the socialist Soviet Union led by the Bolshevik Party with Comrade Stalin at its head, who played the leading role in the defeat of Nazi Germany. It is a day to honour and salute the deeds of the countless patriots of the occupied countries of Europe and Asia who, led by communists, displayed death defying courage in the struggle to liberate their countries from the armies of the occupation forces.
War between India and Pakistan is against the interests of the peoples of our two countries!
Statement of the Central Committee of the Communist Ghadar Party of India, 9 May 2025
The Communist Ghadar Party of India appeals to the people of India, and to all political forces who are fighting in defence of the rights of the people, to stand united and reject the chauvinist war hysteria of the Indian ruling class. Reject all attempts to divide us on communal lines. Oppose war between India and Pakistan!
Kisans step up the struggle in support of their demands
The kisans had planned a march to the Shambhu border on 6 May, to highlight their demands. The Punjab government and its police forces employed the most criminal methods to prevent the kisan march.
Many kisan leaders were placed under house arrest, while several other kisan activists were detained at police stations, a day before the planned march. As kisans began gathering in Moga and Jagraon in preparation for the march, they were stopped. Police erected barricades, deployed sand-laden trucks and tippers to block the kisan march to Shambhu.
Undaunted, the kisans are determined to continue the struggle for their demands.
The great heroic victory of the Vietnamese people over US imperialism will never be forgotten!
Fifty years ago, on 30 April, 1975, the people of Vietnam led by their communist party headed by Ho Chi Minh liberated their country. After a heroic, 20 year long war of liberation, the indomitable Vietnamese people inflicted a resounding defeat on US imperialism and its puppet regime based in Saigon (now known as Ho Chi Minh City). At the end, as the tanks and forces of the Vietnamese liberation fighters rolled into Saigon, all the bombs, weapons, planes and deadly arsenal in the hands of the world’s mightiest imperialist power were no use. No one can forget the images of the US ambassador and other American functionaries and their hangers-on fleeing the city and clambering onto helicopters in a desperate bid to escape.
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Let us make the 20 May All-India General Strike a resounding success!
Call of Mazdoor Ekta Committee, 9 May 2025
Through this strike action, we workers want to tell the Central and state governments that we refuse to accept the onslaught they are carrying out on our rights, in the name of improving the “ease of doing business”. We refuse to accept that whatever is best for the capitalists is best for the country. No, what is best for the capitalists is against the interests of workers and peasants. It is against the interests of the whole of Indian society.
May Day celebrated with great enthusiasm in Tamil Nadu
Report of Correspondent of Workers Unity Movement
May Day was observed by workers in Tamil Nadu with a lot of anger at their extremely exploitative conditions of work and life, and with enthusiasm and resolve to put an end to this man eating system.
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IT workers in Karnataka hold May Day Rally
Report by a correspondent of Workers Unity Movement
Hundreds of IT employees in Bengaluru, under the banner of Karnataka State IT/ITeS Employees Union (KITU) militantly marched from Bengaluru Town Hall to Freedom Park on the occasion of May Day.
May Day rallies across the world
May Day 2025 rallies reflected the resolve of the working class and people of all countries to defend their livelihood and rights against the intensifying capitalist assault.
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