Bloodbath in Andhra Pradesh

On Saturday 28 July the police of the state of Andhra Pradesh in India entered the village of Mudigonda in the Khamman District to break up a peaceful protest of villagers against the state government for failing to carry out its election promises concerning distribution of land to the poor. Under the leadership of a … [Read more…]

Definition, origin and development of the state

In preparing this article, we have drawn on just one source: Engels’ groundbreaking 1884 work, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State. To read Origin of the Family is to revolutionise one’s understanding of the world. For those of us brought up on a diet of eclectic, disconnected historical snippets, educated in … [Read more…]

Condolences to the family of Comrade Pat Coulton

It is with great sadness that we report the death of Comrade Pat Coulton on Friday 22 June. Pat was politically active all his life, with a steadfast record of fighting for communism and opposing revisionism and social democracy. Comrades will remember his recent work both in the CPGB-ML and in the Stalin Society.LALKAR sends … [Read more…]

Palestine – National unity alone can advance the Palestinian people’s struggle for national liberation

Hamas Election VictoryIn January 2006, the Palestinian Authority (PA) held parliamentary elections, which had long been demanded by US imperialism as proof of the democratic credentials of the Palestinian political leadership. The results stunned Israeli zionism and its chief backer US imperialism, for they produced a lightening victory for Hamas which gained 44 per cent … [Read more…]

Letters

Dear comradesIt was a real joy to receive the latest issue of Lalkar after putting up with a week of Trotskyite stodge at a union conference. Of course some Lalkar articles are a bit too long and wordy but it was good to see some solid Marxist Leninist class analysis.However I would take issue with … [Read more…]

Irish Greens Sell Out

The Irish Green Party has abandoned a number of core political beliefs in order to enter into a coalition government in Dublin, securing the return of Fianna Fail’s Bertie Ahern as 26-County Taoiseach.Progressives and radicals were dismayed when a meeting of party delegates strongly backed a programme for government containing rehashed Fianna Fail policies taken … [Read more…]

No future for petty bourgeois defeatism

Gorbachev told the Soviet people that the revolutionary class interests of the world’s toilers must be subordinated to the concept of a “universal human interest”. Too much stress upon the “enemy image” of imperialism, too much class struggle, risked freezing all further human history into a “nuclear winter”. Now the people of the former USSR … [Read more…]