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I love Country Music. I remember when I was growing up and popular music was still singing about the moon in June, Country was addressing topics such as contraception, racism, poverty and the Dust Bowl tragedy in the American mid-west. Of course Country music also produced songs about family dogs being run over by trains … [Read more…]

Land seizures, the background In recent months, more than 23 years after gaining independence and majority rule, the government of Zimbabwe finally expropriated the remaining approximately 4,000 surplus[1] commercial farms owned by white people – the whites having had up until now a virtual monopoly over commercial farming in Zimbabwe. According to Stephen Chan[2], “In … [Read more…]

As a mark of admiration for the colossal achievements of the Soviet proletariat under the banner of Marxism-Leninism, this is the third in a series of articles highlighting the epoch-making victories of the Soviet Union during the 3 decades of Stalin’s leadership of the CPSU(B). At commemoration organised by the Institute for Marxist Studies (IMAST), … [Read more…]

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…]

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…]

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…]

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…]

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…]

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…]

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…]