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The troubles in Kyrgyzstan came to the attention of the world on 6 April in Talas, which is in the north of the country close to the Kazakh border. Recent eventsAn anti-government demonstration turned violent, and sparked off a series of further anti-government demonstrations, despite the authorities imposing a state of emergency on 7 April. … [Read more…]

“Eleven years ago [when I was first elected] I was quite gullible. I even believed in a ‘third way’. I believed it was possible to put a human face on capitalism, but I was wrong. The only way to save the world is through socialism… . Capitalism is destroying the world.” — Venezuelan president Hugo … [Read more…]

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.

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…]

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…]

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…]

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…]

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…]

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…]

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…]