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The militant industrial action taken by the Birmingham bin men has achieved a famous victory in their dispute with Birmingham City Council, so claim Unite the Union. The Council reportedly backed down and accepted the refuse workers’ case in August, agreeing to restore the grade 3 jobs, which are responsible for the safety at the … [Read more…]

LALKAR was saddened to learn of the death of Michael Seifert (born 30 July 1942; died 19 July 2017), a progressive solicitor, who worked tirelessly to support the National Union of Mineworkers during its titanic struggle against the Thatcher government between 1984-85. Arthur Scargill, the miners’ leader at the time of the strike, said of … [Read more…]

It has been just over two months since the horrific fire at Grenfell tower. In that time, the loudest and clearest response has come from the survivors of the fire and the other residents of the Lancaster West Estate, roundly, and correctly, criticising the council and the government for their disregard for the lives and … [Read more…]

According to an article in The Times on 8 August, written by that paper’s Health Editor (Chris Smyth, ‘Northerners more likely to die early from diseases of despair’), northern ‘youngsters are 50% more likely to die early than young people in the south because of poverty and despair induced ‘diseases.’ Professor Iain Buchan of the … [Read more…]

Syria has dropped out of the news headlines of late. This means, not that nothing is happening there, but that what is happening is so hugely unwelcome to those in control of our media that a veil has had to be drawn over it. Because what is happening is that, slowly but surely, the independent, … [Read more…]

Communist and Workers Parties denounce the anti-communist fiesta being organised by the Estonian Presidency of the EU The Communist and Workers Parties denounce the anti-communist fiesta being organized by the Estonian Presidency of the EU, in the framework of the so-called “European Day of Remembrance for the victims of totalitarian regimes”- as the EU has … [Read more…]

The latest anti-Russian sanctions bill to be passed by the US Congress and Senate, supposedly in response to Moscow’s (non-existent) cyberattacks during the US presidential election, in practice has two functions. On one side it signals a virtual declaration of trade war against America’s European ‘allies’ who will suffer the consequences of sanctions targeting all … [Read more…]

Lenin, Stalin and the peasant question under socialism Introduction Marxism teaches, and historical experience confirms, that there is no future in small-scale farming. Collectivisation is the only answer. Collectivisation takes place under the conditions of capitalism through a long and painful historical process by the expropriation of the masses of the peasantry and the concentration … [Read more…]

On 29 July 2017 the CPGB-ML held its annual anti-imperialist solidarity barbecue which especially marks the victory of the Korean people in the Fatherland Liberation War against US-led imperialist aggression, as well as the attack on the Moncada Barracks by Fidel Castro and his comrades, which signalled the start of the Cuban Revolution. In attendance … [Read more…]

On 14 June 2017, at 12.54 am, residents on the fourth floor of Grenfell Tower on the Lancaster West estate in North Kensington, London were awoken by their neighbour shouting and banging on doors, and the first calls to 999 were recorded. There was fire and smoke coming from the flat, and the owner had … [Read more…]