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The year 2004 marked the 25th anniversary of the publication of the of the anti-imperialist newspaper Lalkar. Over the years, Lalkar has consistently upheld the principles of Marxism Leninism. It has clearly analysed the world we live in, explained what is necessary to change it, exposed the class forces at work behind surface appearances and … [Read more…]

People of the world! These words come to you from those who up to the day of the invasion were struggling to survive under the sanctions imposed by the criminal regimes of the U.S. and Britain. We are simple people who chose principles over fear. We have suffered crimes and sanctions, which we consider the … [Read more…]

Widespread Resistance In the middle of November, following its barbaric assault on Fallujah, the US-led occupation of Iraq boasted that it had broken the back of the resistance and captured Fallujah. Barely a month later, it is patently clear that, far from overcoming the resistance and pacifying Iraq in readiness for the election farce set … [Read more…]

On the 22 November 2004, the revisionist daily paper, the Morning Star, published an article by a leading member of the Communist Party of Britain (CPB), Kate Hudson, who is also the Chairwoman of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). The article starts by announcing that the re-election of President Bush in the USA was a … [Read more…]

David Blunkett has taken a leading role in making it almost impossible for people, especially those from the oppressed and super-exploited countries, to be allowed to settle in Britain. He has now had to resign ostensibly because he facilitated a visa allowing a Filipino domestic servant indefinite leave to remain in the country – ironic! … [Read more…]

At the invitation of ZANU(PF), Harpal Brar, Editor of Lalkar and Chairman of Zimbabwe Solidarity Front, attended a Conference in Harare, April 20-23, with the theme The Liberation Struggle Continues. Based on his participation at the Conference, the papers presented at it, as well as other information, he wrote an article on the land question … [Read more…]

It is with great sorrow that Lalkar learned of the death of Ray Stevenson, the Associate Editor of North Star Compass and Executive member of the International Council for Friendship and Solidarity with Soviet People. He passed away after a long illness on Tuesday, August 24, 2004 in Toronto at the St. Michael’s Hospital. He … [Read more…]

At the end of July, journalist and writer Paul Foot died of a heart attack at the age of 66. His obituaries appeared in many leading bourgeois dailies. Socialist News, the vacuous bi-monthly sheet of the near extinct Socialist Labour Party (SLP) of Arthur Scargill, also honoured Paul Foot in its September/October 2004 issue in … [Read more…]

28 September 2004 marked the fourth anniversary of the Al-aqsa Intifada. These have been four years of unprecedented violence, cruelty and repression unleashed by the fascist state of Israel on the Palestinian people; equally they have been four years of truly heroic resistance by the Palestinian people which has won them the admiration of progressive … [Read more…]

Dribs and drabs of news come out of Nigeria which build up to a country in turmoil, but a turmoil of which little is known. In October this year, Nigerian trade unions called a general strike, which brought Nigeria’s major cities to a halt for the four days the strike had been scheduled to last. … [Read more…]