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On Saturday 4 October, a diverse audience of over 80 people packed into Southall’s Saklatvala Hall to attend a highly spirited meeting organised by Hands off China and the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) (CPGB-ML) celebrating the 59th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, which fell on October 1. In … [Read more…]

October 2008 has seen the most extraordinary and abrupt deepening of the world economic crisis of overproduction.The Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, as he contemplated the financial system crashing round him, was forced to conclude: “This is … possibly the largest financial crisis of its kind in human history”.The fact is that although … [Read more…]

In the January/February 2008 edition of Lalkar we carried an article which highlighted the revolutionary programmes of British Communism and finished it with a few brief words about the revisionist British Road to Socialism.  The purpose of this article is to broaden that analysis and criticism of the series of programmes of first the Communist … [Read more…]

As we reported in our last issue, the military commanders involved in Afghanistan have been declaring the war unwinnable on the imperialist side.They have been joined by other eminent names. The British Ambassador to Afghanistan, Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles has shocked the imperialist world by saying:“American strategy is destined to fail” in Afghanistan, and that “The … [Read more…]

An influential leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) and its General Secretary for 13 years, Comrade Harkishan Singh Surjeet died on 1 August 2008 at the age of 92.  At the Memorial Meeting held in Southall on 30 August, Harpal Brar, speaking on behalf of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist), … [Read more…]

On 18 August, hours before the Pakistani parliament was due to consider formal impeachment proceedings against him, General Musharraf resigned from his post as Pakistan’s president.  Ninety per cent of the Pakistani people greeted this with genuine relief and happiness.Hated regimeWhat made him a special target of hatred was his total subservience to US imperialism … [Read more…]

It was on New Year’s Day 1959 that Fidel Castro led his rebel army into the Cuban capital, Havana, after nearly three years of armed struggle against the US puppet dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista.When he did so, it was to reaffirm the sovereignty of the Cuban people after sixty years of domination by US imperialism, … [Read more…]

The Friends of Korea organised an enthusiastic meeting and social at Saklatvala Hall in Southall, west London, on Saturday 26 July to jointly celebrate the 55th anniversary of the Korean people’s victory in their war of resistance against US imperialism and of the attack on the Moncada Barracks, which heralded the start of the Cuban … [Read more…]

LALKAR has been marking the 150th anniversary of the outbreak of the First Indian War of Independence (1857-1859) with a series of articles.With part 1, in our November/December 2007 issue, we showed the causes of this, the largest anti-colonial uprising anywhere in the world in the 19th century, engulfing about 35 per cent of present-day … [Read more…]

Democratic national rights lostThe present conflict between Russia and Georgia, to use James Connolly’s prescient phrase when he warned of the partition of Ireland, stems from the “carnival of reaction” that inevitably followed the break-up of the Soviet Union.J V Stalin was not only an expert in the national question in general but also in … [Read more…]