Congratulations to the People’s Republic of China on its historic space mission

On 24 June, three Chinese astronauts, including Liu Yang, the country’s first female astronaut, who had been launched into space on 16 June, successfully completed a manual docking between the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft and the orbiting Tiangong-1 lab module, the first such attempt in China’s history of space exploration. It means China has completely grasped space … [Read more…]

Stopping the war machine: anti-war work in Britain

More than a decade of calling on workers to demonstrate and lobby their MPs has signally failed to stop or even slow down a single war. So what is the alternative? How should workers be furthering the anti-imperialist goal of preventing the British ruling class from massacring workers abroad in the pursuit of superprofits? [analysis … [Read more…]

Syria: Imperialism sidelined by the Annan Plan

The steadfastness of the Syrian people in the face of every effort to divide and undermine them, coupled with the refusal of Russia and China to endorse the economic, diplomatic and military campaigns of aggression, continue to frustrate imperialist plans of conquest in the Middle East.  Whilst it cannot be doubted that Washington will carry … [Read more…]

Letter to the editor: On the stage of revolution in South Africa

Dear ComradesI write with reference to the article in your last issue (Lalkar, March/April 2012), ‘The decay of the revolutionary leadership in post-Apartheid South Africa’, being the text of the speech delivered by Comrade Khwezi Kadalie, Chairperson of the Marxist Workers School of South Africa, to CPGB-ML public meetings around the country in February.Whilst welcoming … [Read more…]

Increased rents, another straw on the Camel’s back

As economic blows continue to fall on the working classes in Britain in the form of job losses, wage cuts, slashed benefits, increased food price, extended working life, shrinking pensions, while health care and education services are being increasingly privatised and milked for profit by various private concerns, etc, etc, evidence is piling up to … [Read more…]

Abu Qatada: a tale of injustice

The job of this paper is not to promote any religion – most of them have the funds and expertise to do that for themselves. When, however, a religion is attacked and demonised in order to create a smokescreen for imperialist brigandage around the world under the flag of ‘war on terror’; when this attack … [Read more…]

Poem for Godfrey

We thought that Godfrey’d gone awayAlthough we’d begged him please to stay“There’s so much work, death’s not your fateWithout your help the load’s too great!”How will we print the papers and leaflets?How will we know the place to meet?Who will support us when we’re down?Who’ll make sure we’ve got what we need?Who will correct us … [Read more…]

Support Palestinian Prisoners’ Mass Hunger Strike

On 17 April 2012, Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons launched a mass hunger strike demanding an end to administrative detention, isolation and other punitive measures taken against Palestinian prisoners including the denial of family visits and access to university education.Approximately 1,200 Palestinian prisoners from all factions began an open hunger strike on 17 April, with the … [Read more…]

In celebration of the centenary of Comrade Kim Il Sung’s birth

At a CPGB-ML day school Ambassador Hyon Hak-bong spoke of the current situation, participants studied the writings of Kim Il Sung and rebutted media lies against the DPRKTo celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the great leader of the Korean revolution, Comrade Kim Il Sung, the CPGB-ML held a one-day party school on … [Read more…]

Godfrey Andries Cremer: Some of the many messages of  condolences received from organisations and individuals across the world

ORGANISATIONSThe Embassy of the Democratic Peoples Republic of KoreaDear Comrades of CPGB-MLI express the profound deepest condolences to the bereaved family and comrades for the loss of our dear precious and irreplaceable comrade, Godfrey.Comrade Godfrey was a genuine comrade for the Korean People and his revolutionary spirits and his contributions to the communist movement of Britain … [Read more…]