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Charles Darwin was born 200 years ago, on 12 February 1809. 50 years later in 1859 he published his most far reaching work, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.This double anniversary has received much attention on television, radio and in the press, a surprising amount of it controversial and polemical. This … [Read more…]

The charade that passed for a presidential and provincial election in Afghanistan was staged on Thursday 20th August 2009. According to the information released by the occupation forces and the puppet Kaizai regime, 40 candidates contested for the presidency, whilst 3,180 stood in the election for provincial councils. According to the same sources, of the … [Read more…]

On 6 May 2009, General Valentin Varennikov died, aged 85 in Moscow.  His life was a model of loyalty and service to the Soviet proletariat through good times and bad.  Born a poor Cossack, his ambition from the age of 5 was to become a soldier.  He graduated from officer cadet school in 1942 and … [Read more…]

Twenty-six years ago, at the beginning of the conflict in Sri Lanka, we wrote an article denouncing the Sri Lankan government’s policy of discrimination against the Tamils but at the same time pointing out the incorrectness of the demand for self-determination, both in point of theory and practicability, for the Sri Lankan Tamils.Twenty-six years and … [Read more…]

The Nepalese Prime Minister, UCPN-M chairman Prachanda, resigned on 4 May as a result of Nepal’s President Ram Baran Yadav overturning his decision to sack the Nepalese army chief, Rookmangud Katawal, without the consent of his coalition partners.  Katawal was in fact guilty of refusing to obey instructions from the elected civilian government, as well … [Read more…]

While the United States, Britain and other imperialist powers have strained every nerve to brand the free and fair presidential election in Iran as rigged and fraudulent, and to use all manner of extra-legal means to overturn the result, they have hailed as a great victory the 7 June election in Lebanon, which, despite the … [Read more…]

Friends of Korea held a meeting at Marx Memorial Library, London, on 27 June 2009 to commemorate the anniversary of the start of the Korean War – which the Koreans call the Fatherland Liberation War – launched by US imperialism and its allies on 25 June 1950.The meeting was designed as a panel discussion with … [Read more…]

Presidential elections were held in Iran on 12 June, as they have been regularly since the victory of the Islamic revolution 30 years ago. The incumbent President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad scored a decisive victory, receiving 63.3 per cent of the vote (24.5 million votes), obviating the need for a second round of voting, whilst his closest … [Read more…]

Elections to India’s 15th Lok Sabha (the lower house of the Indian parliament) took place in a five-stage process, which began on 16 April and ended on 13 May 2009.  In this month-long process, involving 828,804 polling stations, 6.1 million police and civic personnel, 1.4 million electronic voting machines, the participation of 1,055 political parties … [Read more…]

The results: Labour gets a grillingThe local and European Parliament elections conducted on 4 June were, as was widely predicted, a disaster for Labour, which suffered its worst election result since the Second World War. In the local elections (for all 27 County Councils, three existing Unitary Authorities and five new Unitary Authorities), Labour managed … [Read more…]