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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…]

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…]

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…]

On 27 October the Tunisian Election Commission announced the preliminary results for the constituent assembly elections. The moderate Islamic party, Nahdah (or Renaissance) topped the poll, securing 90 of the 217 seats.  It was followed by the social democratic CPR (Congress for the Republic) and Ettakatol/FDTL (Democratic Forum for Labour and Liberties).  The Tunisian Communist … [Read more…]

On 30 November Britain saw two million public sector workers from thirty different unions out on strike, with over a thousand local and regional rallies and protests mobilising hundreds of thousands on the street.  This was the case not only in London but also in places like Bristol (20,000) and Manchester (30,000). Despite the prime … [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…]