Yet another attack on RT

Following on from the article in the last issue of LALKAR regarding the dirty tricks being used against Russia Today (RT) and other Russian news providers to (a) portray Russia in a bad light claiming that the Russian government dictates what RT and others say/print (who owns the BBC again?) and (b) to try to … [Read more…]

Syria: The liberation of Aleppo

The final offensive by the Syrian Arab Army to liberate the eastern sector of Aleppo from the clutches of the US-backed jihadis, begun in mid-November, had by the second week in December freed the vast majority of previously jihadi-held territory. Over the month-long offensive, 78,000 civilians were evacuated and 1,324 terrorists surrendered. Relaying this joyful … [Read more…]

Memorial Meeting in tribute to Fidel Castro

A Memorial Meeting to pay tribute to Fidel Castro, jointly organised by CPGB-ML and JVP London comrades, was held on 10 December 2016 at Saklatvala Hall, Southall. Chairman’s introduction The meeting was chaired by Harpal Brar. The chairperson opened the proceedings by asking the audience to stand to observe two minutes’ silence in homage to … [Read more…]

Remembering Comrade Kim Jong Il

Both the Korean people and revolutionary people around the world remembered and paid tribute to Comrade Kim Jong Il, General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) and leader of the Korean revolution, on 17 December, the fifth anniversary of his passing. Comrade Kim Jong Il succeeded to the leadership of the revolution after … [Read more…]

South Korea – Right-wing President impeached

South Korea enters 2017 in the grip of a political crisis that may also have important ramifications for the wider North East Asian region and beyond. On 9 December 2016, the 300-member South Korean National Assembly voted by 234 to 56 to impeach President Park Geun-hye, the first step in her removal from office. The … [Read more…]

Corrupt Kiev junta faces an uncertain future

Kiev junta: corrupt from top to bottom The consequences of Ukraine’s trans-formation into a vassal state of NATO have been brought into sharp focus recently by the revelations of former wheeler-dealer Aleksandr Onishchenko. When capitalist thieves fall out their mutual recriminations can offer a useful glimpse into the sick and corrupt world which they all … [Read more…]

The latest attack on RT News

Following the attempted blocking of RT News via financial means in Britain by the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) subsidiary, NatWest, in October 2016, when the NatWest management informed its customer, Russia Today (RT), of their decision to cease to offer it banking services, the EU has now stepped into the fray. Given that the … [Read more…]

Colombia: implementing the peace deal

When on Sunday 2 October the peace accords painstakingly hammered out over four years by the Colombian government on the one hand and the FARC-EP guerrilla movement on the other was unexpectedly rejected by a very narrow margin in a popular referendum, the bourgeois media the world over went into overdrive to attribute the defeat … [Read more…]

Zionism – a racist and anti-semitic ideology

Part 2: Zionism – a Jewish invention or an imperialist construct? Genesis of Zionism The Zionist state of Israel, and its imperialist backers, make three assertions: first, that Jews invented Zionism; second, that Jews are a Semitic people; and third, that the state of Israel ought to be, and will remain, an exclusively Jewish state. … [Read more…]

How the Khrushchevite revisionists destroyed the Soviet Union

Preface to the second Hindi edition of Harpal Brar’s book, Perestroika. (Written on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union). It is nearly 25 years since, at the end of 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed. There is no denying the reverses suffered by socialism consequent upon the developments in … [Read more…]