The so-called ‘Panama Papers’ are being presented as one of the biggest political stories of the year. Indeed, with the leak of 11.5 million files, going back over 40 years, and concerning the affairs of some 214,000 companies, many of them connected, actually or allegedly, directly or indirectly, to some of the most prominent people … [Read more…]
In the last year, the UK has lost 39% of its steel industry, and now Tata’s decision to withdraw from Britain, abandoning sites that include Britain’s largest steel-making plant at Port Talbot, threatens to finish off the UK steel industry almost entirely. Tata steelworks in South Yorkshire, Northamptonshire and County Durham are also set to … [Read more…]
On Tuesday, March 22, the blind terror of Islamic State sent shock waves through Brussels, and far beyond. Terrorist bomb attacks, one in Brussels Airport and another one in the Maalbeek metro station, near the EU buildings, caused at least 31 deaths and 250 injured, many of them seriously. Baggage handlers at the airport, train … [Read more…]
With its political crisis still unresolved, the IMF threatening to freeze its bail-out, the Dutch putting two fingers up to its European Association Agreement and the Donbas resistance still holding firm, the Kiev government is in deep trouble. When the former Lithuanian-born economics minister, Aivaras Abromavicius, resigned in high dudgeon, complaining that the state-owned energy … [Read more…]
As the self-proclaimed ‘socialist’ government of France wages war on the workers of that country by attacking and trying severely to weaken/dismantle the labour laws to assist the French bourgeoisie during the present world-wide crisis of overproduction that threatens the maximisation of profits of the rich and drags us all towards a third world war, … [Read more…]
It is quite amusing to watch the reactions of some US and European leftists who have vocally supported the idea of an end to the US trade embargo on Cuba as the reality of just that event approaches: they are horrified and rush to print their belief that this signals a capitulation to US imperialism … [Read more…]
PART 2 of a presentation by Harpal Brar to the Stalin Society in London on 20 December 2015, Part 1 having appeared in the March/April 2016 issue of LALKAR. The League Against Imperialism (LAI) 1926-31. In the mid 1920s, Chatto was fairly well known in Berlin as a leader of the Indian community, a journalist … [Read more…]
Reproduced from smartphone edition of The Times, 2.01 am April 24 2016, with thanks. INTRODUCTION LALKAR is reproducing here an article written by the new president of the National Union of Students (NUS), Malia Bouattia, in response to co-ordinated attacks that have been made on her, coupled with threats from various quarters to withdraw student … [Read more…]
National and racial chauvinism is a vestige of the misanthropic customs characteristic of the period of cannibalism. Anti-semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism. Anti-semitism is of advantage to the exploiters as a lightning conductor that deflects the blows aimed by the working people at capitalism. Anti-semitism … [Read more…]