The aftermath of the 1997 ‘currency crisis’

 This article was written at the end of October 1999 with a view to being reproduced in the November/December issue of LALKAR. However, lack of space prevented its publication then. The reader ought to keep this in mind when confronted with a reference to expressions such as this year and last year. Nothing has happened … [Read more…]

BARAGUA OATH –

We shall see who resists longer! Extractsfrom a text published inGranmaon February 18 and sworn as a commitment by thousands of Cubans in Mangos de Baragua on Saturday 19THERE can be no doubt: in spite of the statement by the Secretary of State on the issue of kidnapped Cuban child Elián González on February 17 in … [Read more…]

Turkish left resists prison massacre

 David Morgan reports on an appeal from Turkish revolutionaries not to forget the recent massacre of prisoners in Ankara Comrades in Turkey are calling for our support following the massacre and savage repression of detained revolutionaries in Ankara’s Ulucanlar Central Prison at the end of September.Ten inmates were killed outright and many more were brutally attacked … [Read more…]

Tibet before the Chinese Revolution

Before the Chinese revolution Tibet was a feudal medieval relic. Even by the standards of pre-revolutionary China, Tibet was backward politically, economically and socially.The backwardness was such that even the wheel was not in use in Tibet. There was no plumbing, even in the houses of the rich, and in 1957 Alan Winnington noted“the question … [Read more…]

Greetings to SLP Congress from KPML(r) Sweden

On behalf of the CC of the Communist Party [ KPML(r)] in Sweden, we send your Congress our comradely greetings.It is with great interest and expectations that we have followed the birth and development of the SLP in Britain. A genuinely proletarian party to organise the working class is more needed now than ever, in … [Read more…]

Stalin honoured on his birthday

 As the capitalist restoration in the former USSR wreaks havoc on the lives of the Russian masses, the latter, quite correctly, look back with nostalgia and fond memory to the glorious achievements of socialism under the leadership of Stalin. Even the revisionists of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), and its leadership, are … [Read more…]

Socialist Labour Party supports Skychef workers

 The following leaflet was prepared for a T&GWU Conference on the Sky Chef dispute held in Hammersmith on 20 November. Stewards attempted to prevent SLP comrades from handing out this leaflet! On the first anniversary of their struggle against unjust and unlawful sacking, the Ealing Acton and Shepherds Bush Constituency Socialist Labour Party congratulates the Skychef … [Read more…]

Saklatvala Hall opened

 The memory of the great revolutionary Comrade Shapurji Saklatvala was celebrated on the 11th of December last year with the opening of a new hall in Southall, West London, in his name. The Saklatvala Hall opened with an evening of speeches, songs, good food and festivities in honour of the work and spirit that Comrade … [Read more…]

British Imperialism kills 40,000 old people every year

 The Timesof 31 December 1999 reports the case of a retired miner who froze to death because he could not afford the pay for electricity to heat his house – a one-bedroomed bungalow in Scotland. William Gallagher was only 64, but could not survive the Christmas cold. His wife had in desperation gone to the … [Read more…]

Labour attacks ‘free speech’

 Did you support the right of the people of East Timor to fight back against the fascist Suharto regime? Did you plan pickets of the pits in the 1984-85 miners’ strike? Did you support action against the cruise missiles based at Greenham Common? Did you support the struggles of the Kurds, the Palestinians, the ANC, … [Read more…]