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The following article is based on a speech delivered by a representative of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) at a meeting, ‘Evolving China and Africa Relations – an alternative to Western domination?’, organised by A Just African Movement for Unity (AJAMU), in north London on Saturday 19 February 2011.________________________________Although … [Read more…]

In the wake of the two-month-long Franco-Prussian war of autumn 1870, which saw the French capitalist state resoundingly defeated (with its self-styled emperor, Napoleon III, being captured on the battlefield) and witnessed the birth of a united Germany, the workers of Paris briefly established, for the first time, a dictatorship of the proletariat, the rule of … [Read more…]

In developments of great magnitude, wrote Marx, “Twenty years are no more than a day – though later on days may come again in which twenty years are embodied” (‘Letter to Engels’, 9 April 1863).The current revolutionary struggles in Tunisia and Egypt furnish yet more proof of the correctness of the above profound observation.  Tunisia, … [Read more…]

The political map of the Republic of Ireland has undergone an unprecedented change as a result of the general election held in that state on 25 February 2011.Occurring against the backdrop of the impact on Ireland of the eurozone crisis, which has seen Ireland forced into a humiliating £72 billion EU-IMF bailout to rescue its … [Read more…]

The Socialist Party gets it half rightThe decision taken by the National Shop Stewards Network at a special conference on 22nd January to put its growing weight behind a national anti-cuts campaign, with organised labour at its core, is welcome news.  The rising tide of popular support amongst union militants for the proposal to break … [Read more…]

The publication of the Palestine Papers by Al-Jazeera, and by The Guardian, has come as a great shock to those who believed that Israel and/or the US ever sincerely sought to bring peace to Palestine through the 2-state solution that was agreed in Oslo.  Indeed, they have made it clear that they are only interested … [Read more…]

With the negative example of the crisis of the 1930s before them, bourgeois economists and politicians are struggling violently – if in vain – to avoid the “mistakes” of that era.  Anxious to blame “mistakes” rather than capitalism itself for the crisis that devastated the capitalist world at that time and blighted millions of lives … [Read more…]

As capitalist Britain spirals deeper into crisis, the curse of poverty spreads ever wider and deeper, taking ever nastier forms.  One kind of poverty has in recent years been sanitised with a fancy new name in social work circles: “fuel poverty”.  If a family has to spend more than 10% of its income on heating, … [Read more…]

Behaving just like a gang of muggers, the “international community” of imperialist powers once more want to play the criminal game of “regime change”.  This time the target of the bullies is the West African state of Ivory Coast.The scene is familiar: elections are held, the incumbent head of state is declared elected by the … [Read more…]

Lalkar is saddened to announce the death, on 23 December, at the age of only 77 of Mrs J Desai, following a long illness.  Mrs Desai became famous as the leader of the Grunwick strike that took place in 1976-78.  The 137 workers at Grunwick, in the London Borough of Brent, an establishment engaged in … [Read more…]