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For over 2 weeks now France has been ablaze with the anger of rioting youth protesting against their poverty and marginalisation in one of the world’s richest countries. Hundreds of cars have been burnt, as well as several buildings, and violent confrontations have taken place between the youth and the security forces all over the … [Read more…]

Introduction The question of Chechnya and the attitude one should take towards the bloody unrest in the region is not one amenable to solution by the facile application of formulas. According to formulas, one is obliged to support each and every national minority in its bid for independence from each and every bourgeoisie of a … [Read more…]

Hugo Chavez, Venezuela’s charismatic and tremendously popular President, has appeared frequently in the headlines of the world’s press over the past few weeks, as his democratic and anti-imperialist stance becomes ever stronger and the resultant imperialist hatred of him becomes ever more vitriolic. Such is the current level of enmity felt in US ruling circles … [Read more…]

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…]