Today is the first martyrdom anniversary of Comrade Basavaraju, General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), the brave soldier of the revolutionary communist movement in India, who fought till his last breath alongside of the Indian toiling masses.
Revolucion obrera Colombia
Desde el 1° de Mayo la Central Obrera Boliviana inició un paro general indefinido por demandas salariales, contra la escasez de combustibles y el desabastecimiento; un movimiento que fue escalando hacia mediados de mayo, y hoy se vienen desarrollando fuertes protestas, donde los obreros, campesinos, indígenas, mineros y estudiantes han salido masivamente a sentar su voz de protesta contra el gobierno burgués de Rodrigo Paz, servil a EE.UU. e Israel. Incluso, las protestas ya han impactado a nivel internacional.
El imperialismo estadounidense señaló como golpe de Estado el levantamiento. El gobierno del reaccionario Milei, de Argentina, apoyó a Paz con un avión militar que supuestamente transportaba alimentos, algo contradictorio cuando a la clase obrera argentina le toca comer carne de burro para sobrevivir. Hay denuncias del movimiento en Bolivia que acusan que la ayuda de Milei consistió en armas para reprimir. En cuanto al gobierno colombiano, el presidente Petro denominó la lucha como una insurrección popular, llamó al diálogo y en las últimas horas se han roto las relaciones, siendo los embajadores de ambos países expulsados.
El gobierno boliviano, que es abiertamente pro-estadounidense, aplicó una serie de políticas que afectan seriamente a la clase obrera y los campesinos. Una de ellas es la Ley 1720, una reforma agraria que pretende aumentar los impuestos a los pequeños propietarios y otras imposiciones que los afectan llevándolos a vender sus propiedades a grandes propietarios de tierras. Otra de las afectaciones ha sido la alta inflación durante 2025 que, se ha mantenido en 2026 aun cuando se ha frenado la tendencia al alza afectando el poder adquisitivo del pueblo.
Asimismo, el alto costo de vida se agudizó por una decisión que tomó el gobierno de retirar el subsidio a los combustibles, lo que llevó al aumento de los precios de los alimentos y el transporte. A esto se añade que la gasolina que se está vendiendo es de baja calidad y está dañando automotores. Y de remate, lo que hizo estallar la indignación popular es la reforma constitucional que el gobierno viene impulsando con el fin de entregar los hidrocarburos y la minería a las multinacionales imperialistas; reforma que el FMI ve con buenos ojos para volver a someter a Bolivia.
Esas son las razones que han desatado la ira de las masas en ese país, e incluso el planteamiento mayor del movimiento en estos momentos es derrocar al actual gobierno burgués. Algo que ha caracterizado por años al movimiento de masas boliviano es su nivel de organización y conciencia de lucha. A pesar de que en el país no exista un partido de la clase obrera y la influencia de los comunistas sea marginal, la dirigencia de las diferentes organizaciones sociales que están al frente del levantamiento popular han adquirido la conciencia de que la única forma de avanzar es con la lucha revolucionaria de las masas. Igualmente, durante las protestas se han podido observar Asambleas Populares en las ciudades, con masas conscientes y organizadas, con dirigentes que no ceden a pesar de que el gobierno ha intentado negociar por aparte con algunos de ellos para dividir el movimiento. La decisión que ha tomado la mayoría de las organizaciones es derrocar al gobierno actual.
Algunas de las organizaciones más destacadas en su actuación son la Federación de Campesinos Túpac Katari, la Central Obrera Boliviana, los mineros organizados en cooperativas, el movimiento indígena de Ponchos Rojos y algunas juntas vecinales de La Paz y El Alto. A medida que han crecido las protestas, han venido uniéndose los sindicatos de transportadores, los estudiantes y el magisterio que ya había protestado en abril y ha vuelto a las calles.
Algo para resaltar es que existe una coordinación, planeación y objetivos claros en las protestas. Las organizaciones tomaron sitios estratégicos del país, cerraron las vías nacionales, tomaron las ciudades más importantes y donde se encuentra el centro político. También han tomado aeropuertos, como es el caso del aeropuerto de Chimoré, en el Trópico de Cochabamba, donde campesinos cocaleros lo ocuparon para evitar desembarcos de una posible operación entre la DEA y el gobierno boliviano para secuestrar al dirigente del Movimiento al Socialismo, Evo Morales. Asimismo, los mineros usaron dinamita para defenderse de la fuerte represión estatal; los Ponchos Rojos han anunciado que si es necesario, se levantarán en armas contra el gobierno; incluso las masas han tomado algunas estaciones de policía y los policías no han puesto resistencia. Todo esto muestra una profunda crisis social y política donde el pueblo no quiere seguir viviendo como antes y quiere derrocar al presidente Paz pero aún no es consciente de que debe destruir el viejo Estado de los explotadores para instaurar el suyo propio y, por tanto, la dirección del movimiento está en manos del reformismo cuya máxima aspiración es cambiar de gobernantes.
Los comunistas saludamos y nos solidarizamos con este levantamiento que se está presentando en Bolivia. Enviamos todo nuestro apoyo a los obreros, campesinos e indígenas que están dando su vida para derrotar al gobierno burgués servil al imperialismo yanqui y a los sionistas.
Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the TKP/ML: Communist Leader İbrahim Kaypakkaya is the very embodiment of courage in the face of the enemy, hope in the face of defeat, and the faith and will to triumph in the face of despair!
Workers, youth, women, and comrades of various nationalities,
On the 53rd anniversary of the assassination of Comrade Ibrahim KAYPAKKAYA, the Communist Leader who revealed the nature of the Turkish revolution and the codes of its social and political structure on May 18, 1973, we once again declare our determination to follow in his footsteps.
We are living in a historical period in which the imperialist-capitalist system is imposing war, hunger, poverty, and a futureless existence on the peoples of the world with even greater recklessness. From the Middle East to Latin America, from the Balkans to Asia, and from Africa to Eastern Europe, the peoples of the world are being targeted by imperialist aggression, war-mongering, economic ruin, and fascist repressive policies. On a global scale, the ruling classes are attempting to overcome their crises by imposing even harsher living conditions on the working class, laborers, women, youth, and oppressed peoples.
In Turkey, fascism is trying to survive by intensifying repression, detentions, arrests, torture, poverty, and disorganization. The policy of denial and annihilation targeting the Kurdish nation continues. As workers resist for their most basic rights, they face State terrorism. Youth are condemned to a futureless existence, women to male-dominated violence, and peasants to plunder and impoverishment.
The AKP-MHP clique is expanding the support it receives from the ruling classes, in parallel with the determination shown by U.S. imperialism in its regional calculations. Backed more strongly by the support of the capitalist-landlord class, this dominant AKP-MHP clique continues to intensify its attacks—using the levers of power and all its might—against other cliques, primarily the CHP, in order to preserve its political power.
The AKP-MHP clique has fixated on the goal of dismantling and undermining the Kurds’ organizational structures, resistance forces, and tools for seeking rights and struggle under the guise of a “peaceful solution” to the Kurdish national question. A policy of reform and compromise has become the main course of the Kurdish National Movement. The “New Solution Process,” which began on October 22, 2024, has served as a cover for a series of insidious and treacherous attacks that restrict the Kurds’ national rights. The “New Solution Process” has functioned as an overt liquidation process.
This process constitutes a sharp attack on the idea of “armed struggle for liberation.”
This process is a denial of the necessity of the Right to Self-Determination for National Liberation.
This process is a scheme to enslave every part of Kurdistan and even more Kurds for the sake of the Turkish Republic’s reactionary regional interests.
This process amounts to a departure from the claim of democratization and the integration of Kurds into imperialism, fascism, and jihadist reactionary forces.
This process is the continued expansion of reactionary, oppressive, and denialist Turkish national sovereignty over the Kurdish nation.
We reject the solution sought through imperialism and its lackey, fascism. Against the status of an oppressed nation imposed on the Kurdish nation, we say: Long live the Kurdish nation’s right to self-determination. The Turkish nation will not be free unless the Kurdish nation is free, otherwise imperialism and fascism will be the victors.
While the AKP-MHP clique stokes chauvinism with its “national and local” rhetoric, it has ensured the further deepening of the Turkish Republic’s structure, which is deeply dependent on imperialism’s economic and political system. This is not a choice for them but the inevitable result of their class interests. This deepening dependence has led to greater decay and corruption in politics, culture, and the economy. This subservience to imperialism has cast even more darkness, uncertainty, and a lack of future prospects over the lives of the people.
Comrades,
da ORE12/Controinformazione rossoperaia del 18.05.26
Sabato 16 vi è stata a Milano una nuova manifestazione nazionale di solidarietà al popolo palestinese indetta dalle associazioni palestinesi in Italia, dai sindacati di base, dal movimento degli studenti nelle sue diverse forme, dalle realtà di organizzazioni e partiti della sinistra rivoluzionaria e con la partecipazione di rappresentanze di partiti parlamentari o che lavorano per partecipare alle elezioni.
Questa manifestazione è stata di oltre 10.000 persone e, tenendo conto che si teneva a Milano e che quindi poteva coinvolgere tecnicamente come partecipazione larga, le realtà del Nord, innanzitutto di Milano, ma anche da Torino, dal Veneto, da Bologna, da Genova, mentre era molto difficile la partecipazione di delegazioni che provenissero da Firenze in giù e ancor meno dalle città del Sud e come città del Sud erano presenti i rappresentanti di Taranto, aderenti alla manifestazione come Slai cobas e presenti all'interno della delegazione di proletari comunisti come una delle organizzazioni politiche partecipanti.
Il corteo è stato indetto in questa data perché l'anniversario della Nakba, la più importante pagina storica dell’occupazione, deportazione, espulsione del popolo palestinese dalla sua terra che ci sia stata nella storia di questo popolo prima dell’attuale fase di genocidio, deportazione, dello Stato sionista di Israele con il sostegno innanzitutto dell'imperialismo americano e poi di tutti gli Stati e dei governi imperialisti reazionari del mondo, anche nel mondo arabo.
Quindi è una data fondamentale per il popolo palestinese perché da questa data nasce la volontà e l'aspirazione del popolo palestinese a conquistare la liberazione, l’autodeterminazione, la nascita di uno
Mumbai City District, May 16, 2026: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has sought cancellation of the bail granted to lawyer Sudha Bharadwaj and Telugu poet Varavara Rao, both accused in the Bhima Koregaon case, alleging that they violated their bail conditions by attending an event at the Mumbai Press Club where other defendants in the case were present.
A special court on Friday (May 15, 2026) sought the response of Bharadwaj and Rao to an application filed by the National Investigation Agency seeking cancellation of their bail.
Bharadwaj was granted bail by the Bombay High Court in December 2021, while Rao was granted interim bail on medical grounds in February 2021. Rao’s interim bail was extended from time to time before being confirmed by the Supreme Court in August 2022.
The NIA claimed that both Bharadwaj and Rao had violated bail conditions that barred them from establishing communication with other defendants in the Bhima Koregaon case, or persons allegedly involved in similar activities.
According to the NIA, Bharadwaj and Rao attended a meeting held on January 19 on the terrace of the Mumbai Press Club, where other defendants in the Elgaar Parishad case were present.
The NIA alleged that the January 19 gathering was aimed at propagating the ideology of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) and discussing the future course of the “Urban Naxal” movement.
In its application seeking cancellation of bail, the agency attached a copy of the Mumbai Press Club inquiry committee report, CCTV footage of the gathering, and referred to call data records of the accused.
The Case
The Bhima Koregaon case pertains to the violence that broke out near Pune on January 1, 2018, a day after a conclave called the Elgar Parishad was organized to mark the 200th anniversary of the battle of Bhima Koregaon.
The NIA has alleged that the Elgar Parishad conclave was part of a larger Maoist conspiracy to stoke caste violence, destabilize the Union government and assassinate Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Sixteen people were arrested in the case.
But when the Supreme Court in 2023 granted bail to two persons accused in the case, it noted that the primary evidence cited by the NIA – a batch of letters – was of “weak probative value or quality”. In addition, a digital forensics firm, Arsenal Consulting, concluded that false evidence had been planted on the laptops and devices of the accused persons.
Of the 16 accused persons in the Bhima Koregaon case, 14 have been released on bail. Jesuit priest Father Stan Swamy, who was also a defendant in the case, died in prison in 2021.
Another accused person in the Bhima Koregaon case, Surendra Gadling, got bail from the Bombay High Court on May 4. However, he remains in jail as his bail application in a 2016 arson case is pending before the Supreme Court.
Bolivia. El país vive una situación revolucionaria en medio de la crisis estructural del capitalismo burocrático y las medidas antipopulares del gobierno derechista de Rodrigo Paz, quien desde que tomó protesta hace seis meses ha venido profundizando la contradicción entre el viejo Estado y las masas populares. Las protestas no han parado desde entonces, primero contra el gasolinazo, luego contra el aumento del costo de la vida, después contra la ley de tierras latifundista, y ahora también en exigencia de aumento al salario general de los trabajadores. Sin embargo, ante la incapacidad del régimen que solo sabe responder con represión y terrorismo de Estado, las masas plantean ahora como demanda central la renuncia de Paz. Desde el pasado 1° de mayo una Huelga General sacude al país involucrando cientos de movilizaciones en diversas regiones, al menos 70 bloqueos carreteros y enfrentamientos recurrentes con la policía antimotines y el ejército reaccionario. Este día 18 de mayo una megamarcha recorrió desde El Alto hasta La Paz (capital del país) generando nuevos choques entre los manifestantes y el viejo Estado dejando un saldo de al menos 57 detenidos y 4 asesinados. Los enfrentamientos de este día han sido particularmente violentos; el pueblo responde con dinamita a las balas asesinas del régimen. El gobierno reduce la situación a una provocación de “Evo Morales” y sus seguidores. En realidad, la gran burguesía y los terratenientes no alcanzan a entender que ya no pueden seguir gobernando como antes, y que las masas no quieren seguir siendo gobernadas como hasta ahora. ¡Solidaridad total con el pueblo boliviano! ¡Viva la Huelga General!
sol rojo
Today a general strike in Kenya takes place, protesting mainly against the increasing fuel prices which are affecting the Kenyan people. Kenya’s Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority last week raised retail fuel prices by as much as 23.5% – after hiking them by 24.2% last month. Today morning, roads into the capital Nairobi were blocked by striking transport workers, and in Mombasa, Kenya’s main port city, the strike raised concerns about supply-chain delays.
The general strike is underway across the major cities of Kenya. The Kenyan masses have taken to the streets and they are confronting the State and showing that they won’t retreat.
The State has responded as it usually does: deploying police and military forces to the streets. Numerous denouncements have appeared in social media, as the police and military forces are
The State has responded as it usually does: deploying police and military forces to the streets. Numerous denouncements have appeared in social media, as the police and military forces are unleashing their repression against the people. At least two protesters have been murdered.
Today, the first audience of the trial against five students who joined the protests against the French imperialism summit organized in Nairobi, takes place. The students protested in the University of Nairobi and they are members of the Revolutionary Students Commission, and also of the Communist Party Marxist of Kenya (CPM-K). One of the students charged is the chairperson of the student organization, Samuel Jobunga. The CPM-K has called to express solidarity.
The prosecution and the investigating officer did not appear in court to defend their case today.
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