Zionist repression, Palestinian resistance & the ‘Road Map’

Reoccupation of PA territory Ever since the events of 11 September 2001, the Zionist colonialist settler regime of Israel, taking advantage of US imperialism’s predatory wars of aggression, presented as the “war on terrorism”, has intensified its repression of the Palestinian people. In particular, while international attention was focussed on Iraq, the Zionist authorities moved … [Read more…]

Free the Miami 5

As the United States wages predatory imperialist wars abroad it simultaneously launches vicious attacks on political prisoners in US prisons. The Miami Five have been targeted in this latest onslaught and have been placed in solitary confinement. They are five Cubans who were trying to stop the ultra-rightwing terrorist groups in Miami from carrying out … [Read more…]

Greetings to Socialist Korea

Lalkar is proud to publish the following article by the Society for Friendship with Korea (SFK) written on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the end of the victorious Fatherland Liberation war of the Korean people against the US-led imperialist war of aggression. This July 2003 marks the 50th anniversary of the end of … [Read more…]

Iraqi Resistance Confronts Imperialist Occupation

The sole reason given by Anglo-American imperialism for its predatory war against Iraq was that it possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMD) which posed a compelling danger to peace, security and stability in the Middle East and beyond. Knowing full well that this was a lie, the governments of US and Britain had also added … [Read more…]

Demonstration Against Hague ‘War Crimes Tribunal’

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in the Netherlands outside The Hague War Crimes Tribunal (ICTY) on Saturday 28th June to demand the release of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic and the other political prisoners who resisted the 78 day NATO bombing campaign conducted against the sovereign state of Yugoslavia in 1999. The Yugoslav organisers of the … [Read more…]

French edition of ‘Trotskyism or Leninism?’

My book Trotskyism or Leninism? has been translated into the French language and published in Belgium. I would like to take this opportunity to thank, from the bottom of my heart, the PTB (Party of Labour Belgium), its theoretical journal D’Etudes Marxists (Marxist Studies), the publishing house EPO, and all the comrades who worked so … [Read more…]

The Pharmaceuticals Mafia – Consolidation in the drugs industry

In the January/February 2002 issue of Lalkar, I published an article on the Consolidation of the Oil Industry under the title ‘Three sisters and a poor cousin’. At the end of that article I promised to deal with consolidation in the pharmaceutical industry in the following (March-April) issue. More pressing work, however, prevented me from … [Read more…]

War and opportunism

“To initiate a war of aggression”, affirmed the judges at the Nuremberg trial of prominent Nazi leaders, “is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.” The US Supreme Court justice, Samuel L Jackson, … [Read more…]

Sixty years after the Soviet victory at Stalingrad – the turning point in the war against Nazi fascism. Henry Metelmann’s personal account of his experiences in the German Panzers at Stalingrad

________________ Henry Metelmann’s vivid recollections of his life in the Hitler Youth and as a tank driver in the Panzer Division at the Battle of Stalingrad are reproduced below, based on his speech at the Stalin Society AGM, Conway Hall, London, 23 February 2003. ______________ I was a member of the Communist Party of Great … [Read more…]