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…]

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…]

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…]

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…]

Some truths about last August’s uprisings

When young working-class people rose up in anger last August, the representatives and spokespersons of the ruling class did their best to misrepresent the whole affair. It was, they claimed, the activity of criminal gangs, which took advantage of a ‘misunderstanding’ over police action in Tottenham, north London to launch a criminal looting spree in … [Read more…]

100th Anniversary of the birth of Comrade Kim Il Sung

On unityOn his 70th birthday in 1982, Cde Kim Il Sung made a speech at a banquet given by the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea and the government of the DPRK to which the title has been given: ‘The life of a revolutionary should begin with struggle and end with struggle’.  In … [Read more…]

Solidarity with the Greek working class!

The public impoverishment and humiliation currently being inflicted upon the Greek nation may still be presented in the capitalist media as “the Greek crisis”, but it is becoming clearer by the day that Greece’s economic woes are merely the prelude to an economic catastrophe which looks set to overtake not only the whole of Europe … [Read more…]

Will Israel attack Iran?

As the world’s third largest oil producer, but the largest which today still has the temerity to pursue a policy of independence and national sovereignty refusing to bow the knee to the might of US imperialism, Iran has been a thorn in the side of western imperialism ever since it overthrew the puppet regime of … [Read more…]

Payday loans – the Americans are here!

Workers, especially low paid and unemployed workers, are always expected in capitalist society to pay the most for everything.  A greater percentage of what income they have goes on putting a roof over their heads, clothes on their backs or food in their mouths – and this fact leads them to ‘need’ credit more than … [Read more…]

The Falklands Issue

The issue of the Falkland Islands is rearing its ugly head once more.  These Islands, stolen from Argentina by the British in 1833, and since then colonised by British sheep farmers, have been the subject of dispute between Britain and Argentina ever since.  Needless to say, the three thousand sheep farming population of British descent … [Read more…]