US imperialism on warpath against China

Whilst headlines around the latter part of 2011 and the beginning of 2012 might have often focused on such issues as Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria, or the devastating crisis in the Eurozone – as important as these issues doubtlessly are, relatively less attention has been focused on an even more important issue, one with … [Read more…]

30 November: a portent of things to come

On 30 November Britain saw two million public sector workers from thirty different unions out on strike, with over a thousand local and regional rallies and protests mobilising hundreds of thousands on the street.  This was the case not only in London but also in places like Bristol (20,000) and Manchester (30,000). Despite the prime … [Read more…]

On the amorphous meanderings of the RCPB(ML)

Lenin said in One Step Forward Two Steps Back (Selected Works, Vol. 2, page 433); “When speaking of fighting opportunism, there is a characteristic feature of present day opportunism in every sphere that must never be overlooked: this is its vagueness, its diffuseness, its elusiveness.” And this observation still holds true today.  Many fine examples … [Read more…]

The significance of the Occupy Wall Street movement

A movement inspired by the Arab springThe Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement started on 17 September, when thousands of mostly young people moved into Zuccotti Park on Wall Street, New York, to protest against the deteriorating conditions of existence that are being forced on the masses of American people as a result of the world … [Read more…]

Tribute to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi

by Harpal BrarComrades, those of you who are on the list of membership of the Stalin Society will know that this meeting was meant to be a tribute to the late Ludo Martens, long-time president of the Workers Party of Belgium, who died in June. We had to change our programme in view of the … [Read more…]

Afghanistan: a decade of war and the decline of US imperialism

Friday 7 October marked the 10th anniversary of the US-led predatory war against the people of Afghanistan.  During these ten years, Afghanistan has been subjected to wholesale destruction, with tens of thousands of Afghans losing their lives at the hands of the imperialist occupation forces.  Imperialism, too, had to pay a heavy price for this … [Read more…]

Interview with Mohammed Hassan on the situation in Yemen

Lalkar is pleased to reproduce below an interview conducted, at end of July, with Comrade Mohammed Hassan from the Belgian Workers’ Party, previously an Ethiopian ambassador and a person who is extremely knowledgeable about the Middle East.  Because of the paucity of information about the subject in the western media, we asked Cde Mohammed Hassan … [Read more…]

Syria steadfast in face of imperialist-backed counter-revolution

With the NATO imperialists having secured significant military victories in Libya, by means of the most brutal use of overwhelming fire power and superior military technology (although, at time of writing, the courageous resistance of the revolutionary and patriotic forces led by Colonel Gaddafi remains a powerful force in the country and is apparently far … [Read more…]