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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…]

Friday 7 October marked the 10th anniversary of the US-led predatory war against the people of Afghanistan.  During these ten years, Afghanistan has been subjected to wholesale destruction, with tens of thousands of Afghans losing their lives at the hands of the imperialist occupation forces.  Imperialism, too, had to pay a heavy price for this … [Read more…]

by Harpal BrarComrades, those of you who are on the list of membership of the Stalin Society will know that this meeting was meant to be a tribute to the late Ludo Martens, long-time president of the Workers Party of Belgium, who died in June. We had to change our programme in view of the … [Read more…]

Some backgroundGreece is a very different country to the UK.  During the 19th century in Greece and the whole Balkan region the impact of the industrial revolution was almost non-existent.  For example, the first railway line there was built in the last decade of the 19th century. So it was not possible to have a … [Read more…]

Dr Liam Fox decided to fall on his ministerial sword, or was thrown onto it, after the publication of a report following an investigation into his conduct by Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O’Donnell which found him guilty of clear breach of the ‘ministerial code of conduct’.  Parliamentary Standards Commissioner John Lyon is to launch another … [Read more…]

A movement inspired by the Arab springThe Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement started on 17 September, when thousands of mostly young people moved into Zuccotti Park on Wall Street, New York, to protest against the deteriorating conditions of existence that are being forced on the masses of American people as a result of the world … [Read more…]

Lenin said in One Step Forward Two Steps Back (Selected Works, Vol. 2, page 433); “When speaking of fighting opportunism, there is a characteristic feature of present day opportunism in every sphere that must never be overlooked: this is its vagueness, its diffuseness, its elusiveness.” And this observation still holds true today.  Many fine examples … [Read more…]

With the NATO imperialists having secured significant military victories in Libya, by means of the most brutal use of overwhelming fire power and superior military technology (although, at time of writing, the courageous resistance of the revolutionary and patriotic forces led by Colonel Gaddafi remains a powerful force in the country and is apparently far … [Read more…]

Lalkar is pleased to reproduce below an interview conducted, at end of July, with Comrade Mohammed Hassan from the Belgian Workers’ Party, previously an Ethiopian ambassador and a person who is extremely knowledgeable about the Middle East.  Because of the paucity of information about the subject in the western media, we asked Cde Mohammed Hassan … [Read more…]