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The Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s AGM last month resulted in what can only be described as a significant step back for the British anti-imperialist movement and a significant victory for zionism.The meeting voted to endorse a paragraph that the PSC executive had recently added to the campaign website stating that “Any expression of racism or intolerance, … [Read more…]

I would like to thank the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) for the opportunity to address this gathering. I would like to take the opportunity to extend to you, and to all the comrades, friends and fellow workers here, the most sincere, heartfelt and revolutionary greeting of the members of the Marxist Workers School … [Read more…]

Events in February were dominated by an intensified war drive against Syria, held back only by Russia and China’s refusal this time to allow the United Nations to be misused to sanction yet another war of conquest against a third world country and the firm stance of Syria’s leadership, armed forces and the great mass … [Read more…]

Whilst headlines around the latter part of 2011 and the beginning of 2012 might have often focused on such issues as Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria, or the devastating crisis in the Eurozone – as important as these issues doubtlessly are, relatively less attention has been focused on an even more important issue, one with … [Read more…]

Contradictory forces at workThe EU was formed by various small European imperialist powers (small by comparison to the mighty US) coming together to create for themselves a large  common home market as a basis for achieving the economic clout necessary to maintain themselves as imperialist powers.  Once formed, the EU – and the common currency … [Read more…]

Lalkar is saddened by the death of the writer, artist and revolutionary dramatist, Gursharan Singh.  He had a long association with the Indian Workers Association (Great Britain) and Lalkar, which for a long time was the organ of the IWA-GB.  He visited the UK at our invitation twice with his drama troupe and performed several … [Read more…]

With the invasion of Iraq on 19 March 2003, the US-led predatory war against Iraq commenced under the code name ‘Operation Iraqi Freedom’.  Eight years, eight months and twenty five days later, on 15 December 2011, the Stars and Stripes were lowered in Baghdad to mark the ‘end’ of the war.  Leon Panetta, US Defence … [Read more…]

Not only the Korean people, but revolutionary and progressive people throughout the world, were plunged into sorrow when, on 19 December 2011, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) announced that Comrade Kim Jong Il, the supreme leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the successor to its revolutionary founder Comrade Kim Il … [Read more…]

Great excitement has been expressed over the month of December in the bourgeois media because Putin’s political party, United Russia, although it won the parliamentary elections held at the beginning of December, did so with a reduced number of seats.  “Is this the start of the Russian Spring?” , enthused former UK ambassador to Russia, … [Read more…]

SYRIAFrom “peaceful protesters” to “freedom fighters”Ever since Syria’s first stirrings of unrest began in the spring, the imperialist media bust a gut trying to convince us all that what was at issue was a spontaneous popular democratic revolt on Cairo lines, pitting unarmed peaceful protestors against a homicidal response from the state’s armed forces. All … [Read more…]