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 On Tuesday 17 October a GNER train travelling at high speed from King’s Cross to Leeds came off the rails near Hatfield in Hertfordshire. The result of this accident was the loss of four lives and 33 people injured.The cause of the accident was quickly identified as a broken rail. At the same time, the … [Read more…]

 The Education Committee of the SLP organised its first-ever national School on education. It took place at the weekend of 2-3 September in Saklatvala Hall, Southall. This School was very well attended, specially by young people. Presentations, followed by discussion, were made on such subjects as Capitalism, Socialism, Imperialism, and Education. The School concluded with … [Read more…]

 On October 22nd trade-union activists from across the country gathered at a Conference in London organised by the United Campaign to Repeal Anti-Trade Union Laws. Speaker after speaker gave examples of their struggles against bad conditions at work, against privatisation in various sectors such as health and transport, etc., which demonstrated clearly the need to … [Read more…]

Two meetings on Palestine in Brighton Wednesday, 1st of November witnessed two meetings on the question of Palestine in Brighton. These meetings were initiated by the Socialist Labour Party Youth who are also members of the Sussex University Palestine Society and the national Palestinian Solidarity Campaign. One meeting took place at 3pm on the campus of … [Read more…]

Poem deicated to the Palestinian people by Sukant Chandan Not many were fighting like when you erupted,You took cover behind those walls,The defunct enemy you were confronting.What’s the point of negotiation when allWe receive is provocation upon provocationNo! This is not going to make us fall!And now we’re stepping up with the armed tactics,Stones, slings, petrol … [Read more…]

Double the old-age pension now and restore the link If the link between pensions and earnings were restored today, those of Britain’s poverty-stricken elderly who have only their pensions to live on would receive an extra £30 a week each. This would be enough to provide at least proper heating for the 40,000 plus old people … [Read more…]

 On Saturday the 25th of October the Ruling Council of the Ulster Unionist Party met yet again to decide the fate of peace in Northern Ireland by considering whether to continue half-heartedly with the Good Friday Agreement (GFA), or simply to scrap it altogether. The ruling council met to consider proposals from a group of … [Read more…]

 As we go to press the threat is looming of another fuel crisis, the first having broken out a few days after the last issue ofLalkarappeared at the beginning of September 2000. The crisis arose when pickets of lorry drivers and farmers congregated on 6 September 2000 outside Britain’s various petrol depots thereby impeding distribution … [Read more…]

 An exceptionally important Conference was held in Berlin at the weekend of 28-29 October 2000. It was jointly organised by two Marxist-Leninist magazines, the bi-monthlyOffen-siv(published and edited by the Hanover Branch of the Communist Platform of the PDS – Party of Democratic Socialism – editor: Cde Frank Flegel) and the monthlyRot Fuchs(Red Fox, published and … [Read more…]

 On 14 August 2000, in the early hours of the morning, 900 troops, from Britain, Denmark and France, under a Spanish general, Ortuno, seized control of a lead smelting plant that forms part of the Trepca mining complex, one of Yugoslavia’s most precious assets, and one which imperialism has long lusted after. According to Christopher … [Read more…]