Cosmopolitans in Armenia lead the Armenian state over a cliff

Comprador stooges are selling their country for empty promises. As ever, it is the people who will suffer. The fallout from the disastrous collapse of the Soviet Union is an ever-present factor at the root of many of today’s wars and conflicts. The wars between Armenia and Azerbaijan are a prime example of this, as … [Read more…]

Julian Assange must be freed

Julian Assange has been imprisoned for 1656 days Message from Stella Assange Julian is reaching the end of the road in the British courts. He is now into his fifth year of imprisonment without conviction in Britain’s notorious Belmarsh prison. On the third of July, he spent his fifth birthday in a small isolated cell. … [Read more…]

Intervention of Emilio Lozada Garcia, Head of the International Relations Department of the CCPCC at the XXIII EIPCO, 20 October 2023

On behalf of the Communist Party of Cuba, Emilio Lozada Garcia, Head of its International Relations Department addressed the 23rd edition of the International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties, Türkiye, 20 October 2023. Dear Kemal Okuyan, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Türkiye, Dear comrades, brothers and sisters: I convey to you the … [Read more…]

Comrade Joyce Foster

Comrade Joyce Foster passed away on 28 August 2023 and was laid to rest on 5 October. Joyce was a member of the SLP Yorkshire regional committee in 2004 and along with the rest of that committee and several key executive committee members she was expelled.  The expelled, along with the class-conscious members of the … [Read more…]

The Day of Cuban Culture 2023

Speech of Ambassador Barbara Montalvo at London celebration H.E. Iván Romero Martínez, Ambassador of the Republic of Honduras and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, dear colleagues, Distinguished and esteemed guests, Cubanos, I thank the Ambassador of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Rocío Maneiro, for hosting us in this emblematic “Bolívar Hall”. Thanks to all our … [Read more…]

Nigerien coup spearheads a popular revolution

Another Sahel comprador regime has fallen to a popular movement led by patriotic army officers. The contagion is bound to spread. On 26 July, units of his presidential guard arrested Niger’s president, Mohammed Bazoum. The guards proceeded to dismiss the regime headed by Ouhoumodou Mohamadou, and head of the presidential guard General Abdourahamne Tchiani was … [Read more…]

Obituary – Isabel Crook

Honorary President of the CPGB-ML All at LALKAR are mourning the death on 20 August 2023 of our comrade Isabel Crook at the grand old age of 107. We extend our deepest condolences to her son Michael, and all her family and comrades, in China, Canada, England and throughout the world, while with them we … [Read more…]

Ukraine: changing proxies in midstream?

As the fabled Ukrainian ‘counter-offensive’ against Russian forces stutters on with nothing to show for itself save a few terrorist spectaculars (like the drone attack on the Kremlin and drone attacks on the Kerch bridge and a Russian oil tanker) and a mounting death toll, it is proving increasingly difficult to conceal from the world … [Read more…]

What is happening in the Russian economy?

Enforced separation from the world market has reinforced moves back towards nationalisation and planning. Ever since the treacherous ‘secret’ speech given by Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev in 1956, the reputation of the revolutionary period of socialist construction in the USSR (personified in the figure of Joseph Stalin) has been routinely traduced and slandered to the … [Read more…]

Deindustrialisation kills

A recent article in the Cambridge Journal of Economics entitled ‘Deindustrialisation and the post-socialist mortality crisis’ once again draws attention to the catastrophic effect on the working-class people of the countries of the Soviet Union and eastern Europe of the overthrow of communism.  The word ‘katastroika’ has been coined to describe this disaster. It is … [Read more…]