Tribute to Jayaben Desai

Lalkar is saddened to announce the death, on 23 December, at the age of only 77 of Mrs J Desai, following a long illness.  Mrs Desai became famous as the leader of the Grunwick strike that took place in 1976-78.  The 137 workers at Grunwick, in the London Borough of Brent, an establishment engaged in … [Read more…]

Denounce the imperialist mugging of the Ivory Coast!

Behaving just like a gang of muggers, the “international community” of imperialist powers once more want to play the criminal game of “regime change”.  This time the target of the bullies is the West African state of Ivory Coast.The scene is familiar: elections are held, the incumbent head of state is declared elected by the … [Read more…]

Fight fuel poverty! Fight capitalism!

As capitalist Britain spirals deeper into crisis, the curse of poverty spreads ever wider and deeper, taking ever nastier forms.  One kind of poverty has in recent years been sanitised with a fancy new name in social work circles: “fuel poverty”.  If a family has to spend more than 10% of its income on heating, … [Read more…]

Developments in the economic crisis

With the negative example of the crisis of the 1930s before them, bourgeois economists and politicians are struggling violently – if in vain – to avoid the “mistakes” of that era.  Anxious to blame “mistakes” rather than capitalism itself for the crisis that devastated the capitalist world at that time and blighted millions of lives … [Read more…]

Cancun Conference on climate change

The representatives of the world’s ‘great and good’ have just met, again, to discuss carbon emissions at the Cancun climate control summit where they pontificated, made solemn sounding statements, debated and tried to outwit each other, not to mention the rest of us, with various versions of an ecological ‘three card trick’, where each imperialist … [Read more…]

Demand Immediate Release of Dr Binayak Sen

Dr Binayak Sen is a popular paediatrician in India, he is known as a “Barefoot Doctor”. Sen has dedicated his work to the rural poor in India. He was handed a life sentence in prison for sedition by the government of Chhattisgarh (a state in central India).His only crime had been to expose the blatant … [Read more…]

Refutation of bourgeois attempts at falsification of the glorious achievements of Soviet communism

Over the past few years, the imperialist bourgeoisie has intensified its efforts to falsify history by maligning the achievements of communism, while at the same time hiding the crimes committed by imperialism.  In particular, an attempt is being made to equate communism with fascism.  The so-called Prague Declaration, recently circulated in the European Parliament under … [Read more…]

In Remembrance of Comrades Marie and Jack Shapiro

In celebration of the lifelong service to the communist movement of Comrades Marie and Jack Shapiro, a memorial stone has been placed in Highgate Cemetery (opposite the grave of Karl Marx). Close family and friends, including representatives of the CPGB-ML, gathered there on Sunday 17 October (the day that Marie and Jack regularly celebrated the … [Read more…]