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The government continues to increase its ability to take action under the law against the populace. On 5th August this year, Prime Minister Blair announced a further raft of measures that included new powers to deport foreign nationals, to close places of worship, ban organisations and measures creating new criminal offences of “glorifying terrorism” in … [Read more…]

As these lines are being written, the Israeli army has served eviction notices on the sellers in the Gaza Strip requiring them to leave within 48 hours or be forcibly evicted. Before we deal with the evacuation of the 7,000 settlers from all of the 21 settlements in Gaza – the reasons for this unprecedented … [Read more…]

Bourgeois ideologists in imperialist ‘democracies’, to camouflage the pro-fascist sympathies and actions of their own bourgeoisie, have always tried to distort and falsify the origin, the content, the reasons behind, and the effect, of the German-Soviet non-aggression pact, popularly known as the Hitler-Stalin or Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. The Trotskyites, as on every other question, in this … [Read more…]

2005 is a very important celebratory year for the DPRK since it marks the 60th Anniversary of the Korean people’s victory over Japanese colonialism, the setting up of the DPRK, and the founding of the Workers’ Party of Korea. LALKAR sends its most heartfelt congratulations to the people of Korea, the DPRK, the WPK and … [Read more…]

With each passing month, as the resistance in Iraq gathers strength, the position of the US-led imperialist army of occupation gets more and more dire, putting paid to the blithely optimistic rhetoric of the Bush and Blair administrations. At the end of June, returning from Iraq, Joe Biden, the Democrat senator, criticised the “…long litany … [Read more…]

Elections in Iran On 25 June 2005 the winner of Iran’s presidential election was announced. It was a contest that had been followed with keen interest by the bourgeois media since there were very important differences between the two candidates. Although the picture we are generally given of Iran is that all politics has been … [Read more…]

The recent brutal beating by the Indian police of hundreds of unarmed, trapped workers from a local Honda factory in Haryana is a graphic example of present-day imperialism, of its “financial strangulation of the overwhelming majority of the world by a handful of ‘advanced’ countries” as Lenin so aptly put it (Preface to Imperialism, the … [Read more…]

The Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) sends its heartfelt congratulations to Comrade Robert Mugabe, ZANU-PF, and the heroic Zimbabwean people on the occasion of their landslide election victory over the imperialist stooge outfit, the ‘Movement for Democratic Change’. The imperialists are seething at the obvious strength of ZANU-PF, whose popularity cannot be broken, despite … [Read more…]

The never-ceasing demonisation of Zimbabwe in the aftermath of the land distribution in that country obliges us to return to the subject again. If one paid any attention to the media and statesmen of imperialism, especially Anglo-American imperialism, one would get the impression that everything in Zimbabwe is a disaster, that the country is going … [Read more…]

On 25 May the opening was announced of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline built to carry oil from the Caspian region to the Mediterranean sea. At 1,094 miles in length, it is the world’s longest oil pipeline, crossing Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey. It is not expected to be fully operational until 2009, but at that time … [Read more…]