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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…]

Shaker Aamer is a resident of Battersea, just south of the Thames in London. He has not lived there for a long while, but his wife, who is a British citizen, and four children still live there. His youngest son has never seen him. For over 8 years he has been locked away in Guantanamo … [Read more…]

Student revolt breaks the opportunist spellNovember’s student invasion and occupation of the Conservative Party’s national headquarters at Millbank took pretty much everyone by surprise.  Chancellor Osborne’s spending review had sparked angry local demonstrations and a London march organised by the National Shop Stewards’ Network (NSSN) and the Rail and Maritime Transport Union, but drew nothing … [Read more…]

As this current crisis of overproduction deepens and our government cuts benefits, jobs, public services and raises tuition fees etc, while telling us that “we are all in this together” (the loyal opposition agrees the principle of cuts but would carry out the details differently), we are treated to the view of the inequality of … [Read more…]

Finding the lies about, and distortions of, revolutionary leaders of the Soviet Union, the policies of the Soviet Communists, and the actions of that once great state is quite easy; virtually any bourgeois paper, TV programme or internet blog site can be depended on to serve that up. However, it is those who pose as … [Read more…]

The 17th World Festival of Youth and Students was held at the Pretoria Show Grounds, South Africa, during the week beginning 13 December.  Red Youth, the youth wing of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist Leninist) (CPGB-ML) was represented by Comrades Paul Cannon and Ranjeet Brar.  As the responsibility for organising the Youth and … [Read more…]

After a year of leaks, Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, in particular an April video taken from a US helicopter in Iraq in 2007 showing GIs shooting at least 12 innocent Iraqis like rabbits, has emerged, thanks to the response of the US authorities, as a hero.  Beginning in July 2010, his site issued … [Read more…]

More than 7 years ago, on 13 November 2003 to be precise, India was announced as the host of the 2010 Commonwealth Games.  This was supposed to be an event to showcase an emerging Asian power on the world stage – and only a few months before the Games were staged, the Indian Organising Committee … [Read more…]

On Wednesday 20 October, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, announced his long-awaited public spending review.  Everybody knew that massive spending cuts were coming equal to around £81 billion over 4 years, but it was at last announced where the cuts would fall, and it became clearer whose jobs and benefits are most likely … [Read more…]

Early autumn saw two significant demonstrations in response to the impending public sector cuts looming over the heads of workers.  The first was in Manchester, the second in Birmingham.  The Manchester march was called by the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) and took place on the eve of the TUC Congress held in that city.  … [Read more…]