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To all appearances imperialism is nerving itself up for a third major offensive against the Donbass, drawing still closer to an overt, ‘hot’ confrontation with Russia. But even as war preparations are stepped up, Poroshenko is struggling just to control his own fascist backyard. Imperialist brinksmanship Defence Minister Michael Fallon recently flew into Ukraine to … [Read more…]

By Grover Furr August 5, 2015 Robert Conquest, next to Leon Trotsky arguably the chief anticommunist and anti-Stalin propagandist of the 20th century, has died. Naturally, the capitalist media are fawning over him. A lot could be said about Conquest. I’ll say a bit at the end. Here are some facts — I have checked … [Read more…]

Everybody in Britain knows something of the events 70 years ago when a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, with the name Enola Gay and piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbets, dropped the first atom bomb (code named ‘Little Boy’) on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August. This was followed 3 days later by the dropping … [Read more…]

Remembering John Seymour Powell (16th Jan, 1934 – 21st July, 2015), known to many as “Joe The Comm” – a rebel from an early age. Born in poor circumstances in a poor area, his father died when John was 6 years old, leaving John’s mother to raise 8 children on little money. John was very … [Read more…]

Literally as LALKAR goes to press, the Greek PM, Alexis Tsipras, has announced that the unyielding austerity proposals contained in the latest creditors’ ultimatum is to be put to the vote in a referendum to be held on 5 July. The Greek people will decide whether to fight or flee. Tsipras is recommending rejection of … [Read more…]

With imperialism gripped by its worst ever crisis of overproduction, events from Greece, through Ukraine and the Middle East, to East Asia confirm again and again the Leninist thesis that imperialism means domination and leads inexorably to aggression and war – a fact that is only accentuated the deeper and more thoroughgoing the crisis becomes. … [Read more…]

On Saturday June 20 comrades from the CPGB-ML participated in the lively and well supported demonstration against austerity in central London organised by the People’s Assembly and backed by many national trade unions, notably Unite. Although the Labour Party, as is known to everybody, completely backs the conservative government’s austerity agenda, it opportunistically, having lost … [Read more…]

Of all the papers to expose a huge drain on the NHS from private companies the Telegraph may well be the last you would expect but the issue of 31 May has an article that makes compulsive reading. The article reveals that the management of our underfunded and cut-well-into-the -bone hospitals, who claim to have … [Read more…]

Labour, Tory, same old story. Britain’s health woes will only get worse while we carry on expecting career politicians who serve the ruling class to fix the failings of the system. Before the 2015 general election, most of the ‘great and good’ of the trade-union and labour movement were telling us that we should not … [Read more…]