Milkha Singh

Milkha Singh, the renowned Indian athlete, died of Covid-19 on June 18, 2021, aged 91, five days after Nirmal, his beloved wife of 58 years, had died of the same disease. Milkha Singh became world famous after he won India’s first track and field gold medal in Wales in 1958, a race at the time … [Read more…]

Obituary: Ivor Kenna – staunch anti-imperialist

It is with great sadness that we report on the death of Comrade Ivor Kenna, a long-time Marxist-Leninist, who defended the cause of socialism and the struggle against imperialism, and was a stalwart member of the Stalin Society. Ivor was born in Rugby on 28 July 1931 and brought up in Bath.  His home got … [Read more…]

Chauvin guilty on all counts

On April 20, Derek Michael Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer (2001-2020), was unanimously found guilty on three counts of illegally taking the life of George Floyd. The proven charges were: second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter. Any reader who might not know the details of the murder by police of this unarmed … [Read more…]

India’s Covid nightmare

India got through the first wave of Covid-19 relatively lightly, thanks to a countrywide lockdown. Although the lockdown was chaotic, with millions of workers in the urban centres being dismissed overnight and forced, in some cases, to walk hundreds of kilometres to their villages in the countryside, it nevertheless acted as a restraint against the … [Read more…]

Imperialism fails the Covid test

Whilst big pharma squabble over who gets the lion’s share of the lucrative global market for Covid vaccines, and the brotherly nations of the European Union fall out over their collective failure to match supply and delivery of vaccines to demand, it gets more and more obvious that capitalism is systemically incapable of dealing rationally … [Read more…]

Domestic Covid passports unnecessary

Workers’ Party of Britain statement The Workers’ Party of Britain is opposed to the mandatory use of identity card documents, or digital applications, linked to personal medical information, in this instance Covid status, either by proof of vaccination or recent test results. While the use of testing or vaccination status for overseas travel will be … [Read more…]

CHAD – death of imperialist puppet president

On the day of his election as President of his country for the sixth time, Idriss Déby travelled hundreds of kilometres to the front line of the battle against rebels from the Front for Change and Concord in Chad (French: Front pour l’Alternance et la Concorde au Tchad – or FACT for short). This is … [Read more…]

Kill the Policing, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill!

For those that have not noticed, there appears to have been a definite increase of police violence against the public and a wilful, arrogant even, breaking of rules and laws by our ‘guardians of law’ during the third lockdown and as we come out of it. Anyone who wants to follow this up can view … [Read more…]