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On 17 November 2018, 300,000 people of the working class and the middle class of France rose up in militant mass demonstrations to protest the fuel tax hike and rising fuel prices. Characteristically, they wore the yellow vest to signal their economic and social distress. Eighteen mass demonstrations, centered in Paris and carried out nationwide, broke out up to the most recent one of March 16, 2019 dubbed as “The Ultimatum”.

The year 2018 marks the 200th anniversary of Marx’s birth and the 170th anniversary of the Communist Manifesto. It also marks the 125th birth anniversary of Mao. Throughout the world, many Marxist, socialist, Left labor and anti-imperialist parties and organizations are initiating or joining commemorative events in this regard. Click for more information.

Dec 13 -- Palestinian women chant slogans at a Gaza rally attended by thousands, marking the 30th anniversary of Hamas' founding. Hamas called for mass uprisings last week, after President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. (Photo by Reuters)

Supporters of the Bolivarian revolution and the Maduro-led government in Venezuela march on the streets of Caracas to defend Chavismo and to condemn US intervention. Photo source: canaldenoticia.com

The People's Liberation Front (JVP) Sri Lanka marks the October Revolution centenary at the Viharamahadevi park in Colombo on 27-28 October. Photos by Irina Malenko/JVP. Click here for photo album.

A cultural worker waves a red flag with the communist hammer-and-sickle symbol during the 100th year celebration of the Great October Socialist Revolution led by various progressive groups in Davao City, the Philippines, at the Holy Cross of Davao College Auditorium on Wednesday, October 25. (Photo: Medel V. Hernani / davaotoday.com)

The main participants to the October Revolution Centennial Conference in Amsterdam pose for a group photo upon its successful conclusion on 24 Sept 2017. The event drew 81 participants representing 27 organizations and 23 countries. (Click here for press statement)

Frank Chapman of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization shares some of the lessons in the U.S. struggle for socialism. Marxist-Leninist and other socialist groups from several American cities held an October Revolution Centennial Conference in NYC on 1 July 2017, followed the next day by a festival of progressive culture in the city's Chinatown district.

THIS WEEK’S MAIN STORY

On the yellow vest movement in France

Professor Jose Maria Sison, chairperson of the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS), favorably compares France’s yellow vest movement “with the May 1968 mass protests in France, especially with regard to militancy and opposition to the capitalist establishment.” While the movement “suffers from the same excessively horizontalist populist character” and the lack of revolutionary proletarian leadership, Sison emphasizes that it is “welcome and praiseworthy” for taking up the people’s just grievances and exposing the grave ills of the “oppressive and exploitative capitalist ruling system.”

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