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Building more homes is not the answer unless they are built for those that need them. Amid the Covid pandemic, and as the first lockdown was opening up, the government announced a ‘once in a generation’ shake-up of England’s planning system. On 6 August 2020, the government published the White Paper ‘Planning for the Future’ … [Read more…]

A Russian brokered agreement affirms central role of Moscow in securing peace on the territory of the former Soviet Union. Peace deal On 9 November the Presidents of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Russia and the Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) signed a peace deal to end hostilities in the area from 10 November. Serious clashes had broken out … [Read more…]

By Birioska A new Saturday, a new early morning, a new trip out of Moscow. Another light breakfast anywhere between the bus and the metro, and a new station to arrive at and from which to depart for a new destination…Dubosekovo. Volokolamsk is a city located 129 km NW of Moscow. My destination, 8 km … [Read more…]

By Carlos Martinez Freedom of speech is one of the key trademarks of capitalist democracy. For decades, people living in the West have been brought up with the idea that they live under an objectively superior political system. This assumed superiority derives from a high degree of individual freedom, in particular the freedom to criticise … [Read more…]

On the morning of 20th November 2020, our dear comrade, Paul Turek ,of the Wakefield branch CPGB-ML finally succumbed to the widespread cancer that he has been fighting for some time. Paul had been an active member of the Yorkshire District of the SLP and, although not expelled along with the comrades who went on … [Read more…]

George Blake is widely known as the spy who escaped from Wormwood Scrubs, a Soviet double-agent, a cold war warrior who went on to live out his years in peace near Moscow. George Blake, who until the end of his days was revered in the Russian intelligence services, was ideologically committed to communism, convinced of … [Read more…]

CPGB-ML party statement Our party, which upholds the right of nations to follow their own paths of development without interference from parasitic, imperialist powers, has long recognised and supported the positive role that the Islamic Republic of Iran has played in the struggle of oppressed nations against imperial domination, particularly in the context of the … [Read more…]

On 29 October 2020, Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the Labour Party from September 2015 to April 2020, was suspended from membership of the Labour Party and had the whip withdrawn from him. This followed in response to the publication of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission’s October 2020 Report into the Labour Party’s handling … [Read more…]

This issue of LALKAR is unusually late for the sole reason that we wanted to report on the US Presidential that took place on 3 November but whose result was delayed because of the time taken in processing the large volume of mailed-in votes in the crucial swing states. At the time of writing this … [Read more…]

A violent and potentially devastating conflict has broken out in Azerbaijan. The artillery and shelling which has rocked the area of Nagorno-Karabakh, a former autonomous oblast inside the old Azerbaijani Soviet Republic, has brought Turkey, guns blazing, into the territory of the former Soviet Union, with President Erdogan proclaiming that Turkey and Azerbaijan constitute “one … [Read more…]