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The Western media are harping on relentlessly about great anti-hijab protests happening all over Iran, with ever more violent repression being meted out to those protesting by a ‘vicious and violent regime’. The nail that they are trying to hang this deceitful web of lies on is the story of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish … [Read more…]

Failing US hegemony is making itself felt in some surprising ways – and none of them bode well for the imperialists. As the decline in US fortunes continues, all Uncle Sam’s many and various proxy forces in the Middle East are feeling the chill wind of betrayal by their weakening master. As so often before, … [Read more…]

Despite conditions of siege and war, Yemen’s people are finding ways to lay the foundations of a diversified and more self-sufficient economy. After almost eight years of continuous imperialist siege, the Yemeni revolution begun in 2014 is still advancing. Following the popular revolution which overthrew the US-Saudi stooge regime that had dominated Yemen for decades, … [Read more…]

Comrade Valdrack Jaentschke assures a packed British meeting: ‘The FSLN will continue to defend the victorious banner of revolution!’ At this year’s October Revolution celebration organised by the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist), comrade and guest speaker Valdrack Jaentschke, Nicaragua’s Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, delivered a wonderful speech with revolutionary optimism and fervour. We … [Read more…]

We reproduce below with thanks an article published by the Anti-Imperialist Front regarding the serious unrest that has in the last few weeks erupted in Kosovo between ethnic Serbians in the north and the Kosovan authorities.  NATO forcibly wrested the Kosovo province away from Serbia in 2008 on the excuse that the majority of its … [Read more…]

Much has changed since Lula’s first presidency. While the economic situation is far more difficult, international shifts could work in the country’s favour. In another victory for the ‘pink tide’ of leftist election victories once more sweeping Latin America, Luiz Inácio ‘Lula’ da Silva has been re-elected as President in Brazil, ousting the extreme-right incumbent … [Read more…]

The 27th world conference on climate change took place in Sharm-al-Sheikh in Egypt from 6-20 November 2022.  The urgency of action on climate change was set out in his introductory remarks by Antonio Gutteres, Secretary General of the United Nations, who made the following points: • “These climate conferences remind us that the answer is … [Read more…]

The veteran revolutionary anti-imperialist fighter, Comrade Jose Maria Sison, passed away on 16 December 2022. LALKAR sends its condolences to his family, comrades and friends. His life and his work are best summed up in his own words, uttered during an interview he gave in January 2021 to Comrade Steve Sweeney for the Morning Star … [Read more…]

It is true that Rishi Sunak’s appointment was undemocratic. But what do those calling for his ousting really want? In an era of falling voter turnout and general political apathy, calls are once again growing for workers to re-engage with bourgeois democracy; to put their faith in the British electoral process in order to express … [Read more…]

As a key driver of manufacturing and technological progress, bourgeois economists are paying increasing attention to the development and manufacture of the new generations of semiconductor microprocessors, and they are not alone. The legislators and ruling class of the chief imperialist powers, in particular the USA and Britain, ever keen to stifle the rise of … [Read more…]