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It was announced on 17 April that Argentina is renationalising YPF (increasing its holding to 51%), the country’s biggest oil company, by means of compulsorily purchasing most of the 57.43% shareholding in that company held by Repsol, which is registered in Spain (and is itself formerly a nationalised industry) but in fact controlled by a … [Read more…]

It is with the greatest of sadness that CPGB-ML and Lalkar announce the death of one of their staunchest comrades in the early hours of 26 March from pancreatic cancer and further complications arising therefrom.  Although he was diagnosed as suffering from this lethal disease only in February, it was already in a very advanced … [Read more…]

Most don’t bother coming next and get the silver, Or being the second highest mountain in the world.But that was not the style of Frederick Engels, He held Marx’s flag aloft, proud and unfurled.When the brightest star is shining in the heavens, You would think a darker piece of sky was worth a try.But not … [Read more…]

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…]

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…]

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…]

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 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…]

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…]