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As we go to press it has been announced that Sarah Bentley, the CEO of Thames Water, is resigning on the basis that the company is no longer financially viable and The Times is reporting that government ministers are drawing up contingency plans for the company’s collapse. It seems that next year average water bills … [Read more…]

The Public Order Act (POA) 2023 is another extreme limitation of, and general attack on, the civil liberties of protesters who want to stay within the legally acceptable rules while expressing their displeasure over any aspect of government policy or who are trying to fight against a bellicose hostile employer.  The truth that has not … [Read more…]

Between 16-29 April 2023, representatives of communist and progressive organisations from 15 countries were invited by the International Department of the Communist Party of China to attend a Workshop examining the issue of China’s modernisation.  George K attended on behalf of the CPGB-ML and reported back with great enthusiasm regarding his experience at this event. … [Read more…]

LALKAR is sad to announce the death of Comrade Tongogara who breathed his last on 11 May this year.  Born Danny Morrell on 6 February 1942, he adopted the name Tongogara after the great Zimbabwean fighter Josiah Tongogara who fought for the liberation of Zimbabwe from the clutches of the racist white minority regime of … [Read more…]

A myth was perpetrated in the late 19th century that continues to this day.  A new political party, the Labour Party (LP) was born to represent the interests and needs of the urban working class, but on analysis, when has the Labour Party ever truly fulfilled that role? Reaching power in 1945, at the end … [Read more…]

This article is based on the presentation I made to an international seminar in Brussels on the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War.  Subsequently it was published in Lalkar in the Nov-Dec 2014 issue. Its increasing relevance today in consequence of the conflict in Ukraine has prompted me to republish it … [Read more…]

After handing out hundreds of their leaflets to everyone at a Rally in Derby on 17 June to commemorate the 190th anniversary of a strike of Silk Mill workers in the area, members of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) were told they were not welcome by the very same rally organiser, who apparently … [Read more…]

While the battle over pension/retirement rights rumbles on in France with no sign of protesting workers becoming exhausted, as Macron was perhaps hoping for, the French police have again underlined their anti-worker, anti-poor, anti-immigrant reputation that they have justly earned throughout the yellow vest fuel price battles and various industrial and educational battles plus the … [Read more…]

The 20th of March this year marked the 20th anniversary of the start of Anglo-American imperialism’s war against Iraq.  Although there was mass opposition to this war, most of the print and electronic media, including the BBC, whipped up jingoistic hysteria against Iraq and in favour of the war.  20 years on there is hardly … [Read more…]

By Steve Sweeney WASHINGTON is continuing to escalate tensions with China as part of its new Cold War, with last month the deployment of 200 additional troops to Taiwan. According to unnamed US officials the soldiers will be tasked with training Taiwan’s armed forces against “a rising threat from China.” The Pentagon would not be … [Read more…]