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After failing to reach an agreement with the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Erdogan and the AKP look poised to call for fresh elections amid growing violence at home and the escalation of Turkish involvement in the criminal war in Syria. Electoral standoff The AKP (Justice and Development Party) failed in the recent parliamentary elections to … [Read more…]

Government attacks on the right of workers to fight back against the profiteers in the face of declining living standards continue relentlessly with a Trade Union Bill first published on 15 July and currently undergoing the parliamentary ritual. So odious is it that even the staid Royal College of Midwives, which has balloted its members … [Read more…]

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…]