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If capitalism is allowed to continue to run amok all over our planet, scientific studies suggest that today’s adequate (albeit criminally ill-distributed) food production will by mid-century become woefully inadequate.  The fact of the matter is that today’s factory farming which is productive of bumper crops is carried out in most places of the world … [Read more…]

A delegation of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) paid a short visit to Libya in the first half of June.  On their return the delegates gave their report to a public meeting held at the Marchmont Community Centre, Marchmont Street, London WC1 on 24 June.  The report will appear in the August/September issue … [Read more…]

On the afternoon of Sunday 5 June 2011, Comrade Ludo Martens, the founding president of the Workers’ Party of Belgium (PTB) passed away.  He is survived by two children – his daughter Amada and son Yakobu.  We send our heartfelt condolences to his children, to his family, and to the PTB for this irreparable loss.Early … [Read more…]

Gordon McLennan, the penultimate general secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), died from cancer on 21 May at the age of 87. The 15 years during which he led what had once been the revolutionary vanguard of the British working class were ones in which the party expelled and excluded hundreds of … [Read more…]

Editor’s noteThe National Health Service system in Britain, as indeed in many other West European countries, is a product of the special conditions arising from the aftermath of the Second World War.  The victories of the Red Army, the creation of an entire new block of Eastern and Central European Peoples Democracies, the ferment in … [Read more…]

The inability of the largest care home monopoly in the country, Southern Cross, to pay the rent on all the premises it uses, throwing into question the future of both the company and the 31,000 vulnerable elderly people under its care, raises issues way beyond the crass errors of one board of directors, the speculative … [Read more…]

Comrade Valerie June Cardwell, known to all as Val, a lifelong fighter for the cause of Irish freedom, and a staunch communist, anti-racist and anti-imperialist, passed away suddenly in London on 14 June 2011, at the age of 63.Val was known to many campaigning for Irish independence and reunification, and other progressive causes, over decades, … [Read more…]

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine denounces in the strongest terms the criminal murder of Italian solidarity activist Vittorio Arrigoni in Gaza, and offers its deepest condolences to the family of the martyr, the Italian people, the global solidarity movement with the Palestinian people, and all who care for justice. The Front expresses … [Read more…]

Part 1The uprisings in Egypt, Tunisia and other parts of the Arab world are universally recognised to be related to the escalating cost of staple foods in those countries.  Although food prices have risen everywhere, it is in third-world countries that the price hikes have been highest, and there is nothing, apart from war, like … [Read more…]

On the 12 April 1961, Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin made history as the first human being to enter space, in Vostok 1 a Soviet spaceship.  His flight lasted just 108 minutes, the distance travelled before he ejected to return to earth by parachute was 40,806 Km and 600M.  He had reached a maximum height of 327Km … [Read more…]