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When the British conquered Lahore in 1849, Lord Dalhousie, the Governor General, declared that he would educate the “wild illiterate Punjabis” in a new system of Anglo-Vernacular education. When they started the East India Company Board was shocked by what already existed.The board was amazed to find that the literacy rate in Lahore and its … [Read more…]

There has been no “peace process” since at least 2000.  The “road map” to a supposed “Two State Solution” exists only as a fig-leaf to cover the continued expansion and consolidation of settler land grabs on the West Bank, the genocidal siege on Gaza and the ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem.  Yet these actions, however, whilst … [Read more…]

A century has passed since March 8 was set as International Women’s Day in support of progressive women in their struggle for independent rights and equal development of women.The women’s issue is, in essence, an issue of social emancipation of women, half the world population, to enable them to enjoy the dignity and rights as … [Read more…]

On 13 February, Friends of Korea held a panel discussion at Marx Memorial Library in London. With the title ‘Defence of the DPRK is a must!’, the discussion included the importance of the stand of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea against imperialism and its refusal to be intimidated.  It emphasised the strength that came … [Read more…]

It was at the 1910 International Conference of Socialist Working Women in Copenhagen that German Marxist leader Clara Zetkin first raised the idea of organising an International Working Women’s Day to mark the important victories of women workers in the US and to provide a focus for women around the world to organise public actions. … [Read more…]

Sinn Fein’s decision to host a London conference in February on the theme Putting Irish Unity on the Agenda was a good one.  The timing turned out to be particularly happy, with the DUP having recently accepted the inevitability of key decisions over the future of the occupied Six Counties henceforth being made in Ireland, … [Read more…]

Greece’s financial problems have been dominating the pages of the financial press throughout the months of January and February, since they represent a huge embarrassment to the eurozone, of which Greece is a member.What has set off what is being called “the Greek tragedy” is a downgrading in early December by Moody’s of Greek sovereign … [Read more…]

Regular readers of this paper will not need convincing of the racism of all the bourgeois parties, including Labour, as we have, over the years, presented irrefutable evidence in abundance of this fact.  So much that it could now be described as a ‘well known’ fact.  However, the problem with ‘well known’ facts is that … [Read more…]

Today is Mother’s Day. Claudia Jones too thought often of her mother. At a party given for her in New York, Claudia spoke about the early influences that pointed her in the direction of communism:“On this, my 37th birthday, I think of my mother. My mother, a machine worker in a garment factory, died when … [Read more…]

BECTU members received the following email from their union in February:“I am writing to let you know about EXPOSE, a new campaign of media workers and students – journalists, technicians, designers, musicians and actors – that is dedicated to exposing the British National Party as the racists, homophobes, anti-Semites, women-haters and fascists that they are.“BECTU … [Read more…]