Condolences to Tim Logan

Lalkar sends it sincere condolences to Comrade Tim on the sad loss of his mother.  Tim has always been a stalwart worker for the CPGB(ML) while caring for his mother.  A donation to Medical Aid for Palestine is being made by the Party in memory of Tim’s mother.

A Beautiful Gift from the BBC

If you haven’t seen it, look for BBC Panorama’s “Death in the Med” program online (Part One, Part Two), you will be treated to first class propaganda as only the BBC can deliver.I am one of the passengers/witnesses interviewed for this program and I am very much aware of BBC’s role in justifying war and … [Read more…]

CPGB-ML website still alive and kicking

Owing to some technical difficulties, the CPGB-ML’s website has been inaccessible for the last month via its usual address at cpgb-ml.org. Party email addresses have also been affected by this outage.The site is still online, however, and can be reached at cpgb-ml.co.uk.  The matter is currently being resolved and the usual domain should be up … [Read more…]

US steps up China encirclement strategy

Relations between China and the United States have, with but minor interruptions, been steadily deteriorating since the beginning of this year, when Washington announced a $6.4 billion arms deal with the right wing regime on the renegade Chinese island province of Taiwan and China suspended all military-to-military ties with the US in response. (For further … [Read more…]

Private Security Contractors

There are 32 security companies still operating in Iraq, ten of which are British and eleven from the US.  These companies had a good war.  They have made billions of dollars annually since the invasion of Iraq in 2003.“The sector is one of the UK’s most successful service providers, bringing in billions of dollars of … [Read more…]

Fair cuts? No cuts!

The instability and internal divisions besetting the ConDem coalition accurately reflect the panic and disarray of the capitalist class under conditions of worsening crisis, with the war against Afghanistan clearly being lost and the public deficit now standing at £165 billion. However the opportunity for the working class to take proper advantage of this relative … [Read more…]

Details of Public Expenditure Cuts

Cutting the budget deficit drastically commands the support of all the bourgeois parties – Conservative, Labour and Lib Dem.  Before it was ousted from office following the May General Election, the Labour Government had announced its intention to half the budget deficit over a period of four years.  Taking over from Labour, and hugely encouraged … [Read more…]

The threat of double dip recession

Throughout the capitalist world, countries are said to be in recovery, as economic growth has been restored after several quarters of shrinkage. Thus: “In April 2009, at the time of the London G20 summit, the consensus of forecasts for global economic growth this year was 1.9 per cent. By last September it had reached 2.6 … [Read more…]

Support for breaking the siege of Gaza grows

The Israeli massacre aboard the Mavi Marmara rather than deterring people has galvanised more to support actions to break the siege of Gaza. Just as the economic stranglehold Israel has maintained on the people of Gaza for the last 4 years in an attempt to undermine support for Hamas has failed, so too has its … [Read more…]

Iran: Sanctions stunt backfires on imperialism

Efforts by Washington to retard Iran’s economic development, undermine her sovereignty and isolate her from the community of nations are backfiring badly.  The passage on 9th June of a watered-down sanctions resolution at the UN, hailed by Iran’s enemies as an international endorsement of Washington’s illegitimate challenge to the right of small nations to choose … [Read more…]