Report from the International Symposium on Employment and Social Security in Xinjiang, Urumqi

16 December 2024 – Ella Rule The International Symposium on Employment and Social Security in Xinjiang took place in Urumqi on 16 December 2024. It was attended by many distinguished international and diplomatic guests, including representatives of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Institute, and … [Read more…]

Stalin’s Library by Geoffrey Roberts – a resumé and review

Over the next few issues of LALKAR we shall be publishing this review of Geoffrey Roberts’ book on Stalin’s library.  Although as a bourgeois academic Roberts is obliged to take an anti-communist approach and to repeat may of the usual slanders against Stalin, such as in the sentence; “this book explores the intellectual life and … [Read more…]

Will Mexico be blackmailed in order to destroy Cuba with blackouts?

By José Manzaneda, Co-ordinator of Cubainformación Over the last few years Mexico has come to the aid of the Cuban people on several occasions.  A month ago it sent 400,000 barrels of oil to alleviate the acute crisis of electricity supply on the island. Investments In no time political and media pressure from the establishment … [Read more…]

Expanded aggression of the crazed Zionists and the response of the Resistance

October 7 marked the first anniversary of the Al-Aqsa Flood, the spectacular jail break by the Palestinian resistance, which electrified the entire Middle East, with ramifications far and wide. The Israeli Zionists, stunned by this operation, responded in the only way they know, that is, by indiscriminate bombing of Gaza, killing unarmed civilian men, women, … [Read more…]

The promise of BRICS

Since the organisation now known as BRICS was founded in 2009 it has evolved considerably under the pressure of the world crisis of imperialism.  Founded as a group initially consisting of Brazil, Russia, India and the Peoples Republic of China (South Africa joined in 2010), it arose out of a shared frustration on the part … [Read more…]

Why aren’t they taxing the rich?

The Labour government proposes to try to close Britain’s fiscal deficit by a combination of raising taxes on the working class and middle class on the one hand, and cutting public services on the other.  What is going to prove very painful for the working  and middle class is expected to raise £40 billion.  The … [Read more…]

Project Ukraine unravels

Whilst all hell is breaking out across the Middle East, hogging most of the headlines, Nato’s proxy war against Russia is coming to an ever stickier end. Project Ukraine, instigated primarily by the US and Britain, had as its aim regime-change in Moscow, to be followed by the weakening and balkanisation of the whole of … [Read more…]

A political earthquake in Sri Lanka

“Marxist Anura Kumara Dissanayake has been sworn in as the new President of Sri Lanka. His election is a political earthquake as Sri Lankans have rejected entrenched parties and handed power to a non-elite for the first time” (Yudhajit Shankar Das, ‘Sri Lanka now delivers a political earthquake in India’s neighbourhood’, India Today, 23 September … [Read more…]

OBITUARY – Yahya Sinwar

By Scott Ritter, reproduced with thanks Yahya Sinwar was killed fighting Israeli soldiers in the ruins of Gaza. His death will serve as an inspiration for Palestinians for years to come. If there is to be a free and independent Palestine, it will be because of the sacrifice made by Yahya Sinwar in the cause … [Read more…]

OBITUARY – Hassan Nasrallah

The whole of progressive humanity is mourning the death of Hassan Nasrallah, a brilliant and intrepid fighter against imperialism, who led the organisation of which he was General Secretary – Hezbollah – as it stood indomitable and often alone in the Arab world in mounting armed resistance to Israel, the racist colonial state imposed and … [Read more…]