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Scale of the catastropheOn 20 April BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig, based in the Gulf of Mexico, exploded, killing eleven personnel and unleashing vast quantities of oil into the Atlantic.  BP’s own fictitious estimates of the quantities involved suggested a relatively minor leak, amounting to some 42,000 gallons a day; by early May even BP’s … [Read more…]

On 22 June the new British Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, unveiled his long-awaited austerity budget. It was an extremely nervous budget, only revealing clearly the tip of a mountainous iceberg of disasters to be visited on the working class during the course of the next few years.  There were even one or two … [Read more…]

Regular readers of Lalkar will know that the 1984 industrial mass murder at Bhopal has appeared in our paper a few times over the years.  This is essentially because this has never been settled – the company that committed this genocide just walked away from the horror and carnage that they visited upon the Indian … [Read more…]

Occupation wades deeper in Iraqi bloodAll carefully crafted pretence that it was now “all over bar the shouting”, with the occupation supposedly winding down, the resistance dormant and Iraq returning to “business as usual”, was rudely dispatched by the violent upheavals accompanying and following the election.According to the testimony of eyewitnesses recorded by the New … [Read more…]

There have been the most extraordinary efforts made throughout Europe in the past few years to re-write the history of the Second World War, designed primarily to foster the myth that communism is merely a form of fascism.  For this reason, hack historians are going overboard to deny the glorious role played by the Soviet … [Read more…]

It seems that the ‘objective’, ‘unbiased’ BBC is not quite as objective and unbiased as its masters in Britain’s imperialist bourgeoisie would have us – and the rest of the world – believe. The broadcaster has just been forced to apologise to the Venezuelan embassy for statements made by the well-known television historian Simon Schama … [Read more…]

The south east Asian nation of Thailand is in the grip of an increasingly profound revolutionary crisis, which may yet end in a bloody crackdown and the reassertion of openly dictatorial rule by the wealthy elite around the royal family and the military top brass or, as we fervently hope, the coming to power of … [Read more…]

It can never be said that the struggle against apartheid in South Africa was a waste of time or a pointless exercise that changed nothing.  It certainly did not change everything but it was a necessary step in the struggle to emancipate a people who have been impoverished and brutalised by a system that not … [Read more…]

On 8 April the USA signed a new ‘arms control’ treaty with Russia with the published aim of controlling and limiting the spread of nuclear weapons. Communists and anti-imperialists the world over know only too well that this treaty won’t prevent the spread of nuclear weapons to terrorist states such as Israel; it is of … [Read more…]

The 2010 annual meeting of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland (ASGBI) was held at the BT convention centre in Liverpool, from 14 – 16 April. It was principally an event for the exchange of technical information and innovation and as such, one might assume, of limited interest to the readership of … [Read more…]