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STOP PRESS The threatened US/Israeli attack against Iran finally began on 28 February, just as LALKAR was prepared to go to press.  Explosions took place in central, northern and eastern Tehran, as well as in Isfahan, Sahand, Karaj, Qom, Kermanshah, Khomein, Dezful, Kharg Island and Minab.  In Minab, two primary schools full of little girls … [Read more…]

All the excitement over the Epstein revelations seems to have fairly and squarely diverted attention from the situation in Gaza and the broader Middle East where Israeli expansionism and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians has been proceeding remorselessly, despite the fact that in theory a ceasefire is in place in Gaza. If it is in fact … [Read more…]

On 18 February 2026, the day before his first ‘Board of Peace’ meeting in Washington, Trump announced – by Truth Social Post – that he no longer supports the Chagos Island deal made between Mauritius and Britain. By providing yet more evidence that the Anglo-American imperialists are deal incapable, the issue of the cyclopean US … [Read more…]

Lots of offensive talk about defence Lalkar articles have always been presented with the clear intention of providing readers with an alternative, correct analysis to the detritus consumed through mainstream media. If we were to use a food analogy, our articles would be an organic, nutritious, well-balanced meal compared with a McDonald’s takeaway. The former … [Read more…]

‘The rich people in my country were always foreigners – let them fly off to Miami with their aunties. I don’t want my country divided – let them take their tune somewhere far, far away.’ These defiant words by Chile’s Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda were set to music by his compatriot Victor Jara early … [Read more…]

by Vikki Harper Speech delivered at CPGB-ML Southall seminar on 28 Feb. 2026 It’s Munich, November 1923 and Germany is in deep crisis. Defeat in the First World War, the humiliation of the Treaty of Versailles and an economy on the verge of collapse gripped by hyperinflation and mass unemployment – the German working class … [Read more…]

It is to a considerable extent through debt that imperialism exploits and oppresses the countries of the Third World.  Purchase and control of critical assets such as mines, land, and major businesses, also facilitates imperialist looting.  Chapter 13 of Harpal Brar’s book Imperialism – decadent, parasitic, moribund capitalism focused on debt and gave the truly … [Read more…]

Stalin on Russian history Stalin also objected to Russia’s history being reduced to that of revolutionary movements: “In school textbooks, Stalin complained, history was replaced by sociology and class struggle by periodisation and the classification of economic systems.  Also unacceptable to him was that Russian history was reduced to that of revolutionary movements. “We cannot … [Read more…]

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of the martyred president of Libya Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, was on 3 February 2026 himself assassinated at his home by four gunmen who had disabled the security cameras. Although he tried to fight them off, they succeeded in killing him. He was 53. On Friday 6 February many thousands of mourners … [Read more…]

The ceasefire in Gaza, which took effect on 10 October, has by no means had the effect of ceasing the firing, the bombing, or any other of the war crimes perpetrated by Israel on the Middle East.  There has been some alleviation but certainly not a cessation. As at Christmas eve, Israel had violated the … [Read more…]