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The long-expected development has taken place. Boris Johnson has been chosen as Britain’s Prime Minister. In his victory speech Johnson named three priorities: to “deliver Brexit, unite the country and defeat Jeremy Corbyn.”

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Winds of change have, at long last, visited the University College in Thiruvananthapuram, which has hogged the headlines of late for all the wrong reasons.

LUCKNOW: Priyanka Gandhi has established herself as a leader who could hit street and stand with victims the manner in which she conducted herself with families of tribals in Sonbhadra district who were killed recently. There is no doubt Priyanka scored over other opposition leaders BSP national President Mayawati and Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav by reaching Sonbhadra.

BERLIN: While Donald Trump dominates the news daily in the U.S. with his racist diatribes, tweets, and rallies, the American public can’t be blamed if it fails to notice that on a world scale and here in Europe, in particular, the right wing is pushing for a level of militarization and war planning that goes beyond much of what we have seen before.

Communist Party of India, which currently is going through a deep existential crisis, got a new general secretary after Sudhakar Reddy stepped down from the post citing ill-health. D. Raja, who is elected for the post, is the first Dalit to occupy the topmost post in the history of the communist parties in India. This is a major transition which took place in the party, when CPI has become a complete caricature of its illustrious past of 50s, 60s & 70s.

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has taken lead last week by visiting Sonbhadra, where ten tribals were allegedly gunned down by the village headman over a land dispute. While the other Opposition parties like SP and BSP were caught napping, Priyanka went ahead with her gamble even when the police stopped her. Priyanka said she was visiting the village only to commiserate with the affected families. She spent a night at Mirzapur state guesthouse refusing to furnish a bail bond.

The Prime Minister Narendra Modi floated a bubble with a optimistic claim of the Indian economy growing to be number two in the world y the end of his second term meaning it will be two and half times of its present size ad strength. Even his party does not share his enthusiasm as the lack of warm celebration of his optimism indicates. It is apparent even to economic experts that unless the NaMo regime overcomes the aftermath of his use of the economy to serve his political ends in the first term years, the economy cannot grow even at the moderate rate. The aftermath left huge unemployment, brought the banking system to the brinks of collapse and slowed down the industrial growth with several running units forced to close partially their production quantum. No ruler can use the economy to serve the politics as politico economy also runs on specific rules.

For almost 60 years Cuba has successfully defended its socialist revolution against a steady onslaught of U.S. aggressive actions, serious enough at times to warrant extraordinary measures. Cuba, for example, established alliances with the Soviet bloc of nations in the early 1960s, readjusted its economy and politics following the Soviet collapse, and sharpened its intelligence capabilities in response to terrorist attacks continuing into the 1990s.

The open letter written by fifty six retired civil servants of the country condemning the Modi Government’s intimidation of the leading figures of the human rights movement in India Indira Jaising and Anand Grover, is a clarion call to the conscience of those who believe in dissent in a democracy like India to wake up and join the protest action against the moves of the government agencies. The letter convincingly exposes how the arms of the ruling party BJP are deciding who patriots are and who are not. The atmosphere in the country favours those who make all attempts to intimidate the dissenting voices against ruling establishment into silence.

Communist Party of India’s senior leader in Rajya Sabha for two terms D Raja has just taken over as the new general secretary of the CPI following resignation of S. Sudhakar Reddy on health grounds. Raja is a known leader of the Party for more than three decades and he is most active among the CPI leaders in dealing with the Government and the opposition. His leadership of the CPI should help the Party in building a broad unity of the left and democratic secular forces to face the BJP challenge in a most difficult political period for the Left parties.