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The latest issue of Monde Diplomatique (English edition) has given extremely useful information about the successes of the Maoist movement in India, about which one generally hears very little – as indeed one heard very little about the Nepalese Maoist movement until it had effectively conquered 80% of the country. Many people assumed that the … [Read more…]

Klaus Barbie, the Nazi of many guises orHow the US secret services recycled the butcher of LyonFor an hour and a half, the film director Kevin MacDonald gives voice to former CIA agents, to retired Bolivian generals, to former French resistance fighters who had undergone torture, and, finally, to Klaus Barbie himself.  In this whole … [Read more…]

Reactionaries in imperialist countries, as well as a multitude of petty-bourgeois elements who like to think of themselves as Marxists, are very derogatory about the fact that when the great revolutionary leader Kim Il Sung died, leadership of the DPRK passed to his son, Kim Jong Il.  Never mind that Cde Kim Jong Il’s appointment … [Read more…]

Gandhi, with his characteristic perversity – a perversity in consonance with the interests of the bourgeois-landlord classes of which he, and the Congress Party he led, were the chief representatives – condemned Bhagat Singh and his fellow revolutionaries variously as “deluded patriots”, “men past reason” and “enemies of the country”, whose “revolutionary sacrifice, nobility and … [Read more…]

As we go to press the news has just come through about the violent death of Benazir Bhutto.  There is not time to include an analysis of this development, so an article will appear in the next issue of our fraternal paper, PROLETARIAN.  In the meantime, for an analysis of the situation in Pakistan, in … [Read more…]

The threatened prosecution of Scottish solicitor Aamer Anwar for contempt of court is a grotesque assault on the right to effective legal counsel. It is also aimed at intimidating those who oppose the government’s “war on terror”, a racist campaign stigmatising Muslims as a pretext for sweeping attacks on the legal rights of the entire … [Read more…]

The EU-Africa Summit is scheduled to be held in Lisbon, Portugal, the coming December. The first such gathering took place in the Egyptian capital of Cairo in 2000. With the sole exception of the UK, the members states of the African Union and the European Union are of the view that all members states of … [Read more…]

November 7 this year marks the 90th anniversary of the Great Socialist October Revolution. This anniversary is being celebrated by proletarian parties, revolutionary and progressive people the world over as the greatest event in the history of humanity – of the history of oppressed and exploited humanity in particular. In the 90 years since this … [Read more…]

On Sunday 7 October the Friends of Korea held a very successful meeting at Marchmont Centre, London WC1, entitled ‘Building a Revolutionary Party – the Korean Experience’. This was an excellent opportunity for comrades to come together to celebrate the founding of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) and to learn how the successes of … [Read more…]

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the outbreak of what has been correctly described as the First Indian War of Independence (1857-1859). It was the largest anti-colonial uprising anywhere in the world in the 19th century, engulfing about 35 per cent of the territory of present-day India. The whole of north-western, north and central … [Read more…]