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Democratic national rights lostThe present conflict between Russia and Georgia, to use James Connolly’s prescient phrase when he warned of the partition of Ireland, stems from the “carnival of reaction” that inevitably followed the break-up of the Soviet Union.J V Stalin was not only an expert in the national question in general but also in … [Read more…]

LALKAR has been marking the 150th anniversary of the outbreak of the First Indian War of Independence (1857-1859) with a series of articles.With part 1, in our November/December 2007 issue, we showed the causes of this, the largest anti-colonial uprising anywhere in the world in the 19th century, engulfing about 35 per cent of present-day … [Read more…]

The Friends of Korea organised an enthusiastic meeting and social at Saklatvala Hall in Southall, west London, on Saturday 26 July to jointly celebrate the 55th anniversary of the Korean people’s victory in their war of resistance against US imperialism and of the attack on the Moncada Barracks, which heralded the start of the Cuban … [Read more…]

It was on New Year’s Day 1959 that Fidel Castro led his rebel army into the Cuban capital, Havana, after nearly three years of armed struggle against the US puppet dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista.When he did so, it was to reaffirm the sovereignty of the Cuban people after sixty years of domination by US imperialism, … [Read more…]

On 18 August, hours before the Pakistani parliament was due to consider formal impeachment proceedings against him, General Musharraf resigned from his post as Pakistan’s president.  Ninety per cent of the Pakistani people greeted this with genuine relief and happiness.Hated regimeWhat made him a special target of hatred was his total subservience to US imperialism … [Read more…]

An influential leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) and its General Secretary for 13 years, Comrade Harkishan Singh Surjeet died on 1 August 2008 at the age of 92.  At the Memorial Meeting held in Southall on 30 August, Harpal Brar, speaking on behalf of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist), … [Read more…]

This is an abridged version of an article by one of our South African comrades, Khwezi Kadalie______________________________________________________The 11th of March 2008 will go down in the history of our country as the day of national shame. It is the day a pogrom against foreign workers started in Alexandra and then spread from township to township, … [Read more…]

The new right wing government of President Lee Myung-bak in south Korea has forced through a move to allow the United States to export beef to the country, but in the process has sparked a massive political crisis and severely compromised its credibility. South Korea had imposed a ban on the import of American beef … [Read more…]

Following the counter-revolutionary riots in Tibet in March (see ‘Tibet – China frustrates imperialist sabotage’, Lalkar, May/June 2008), the Dalai Lama, a feudal relic and the region’s former theocratic dictator, made a tour of imperialist capitals, including an 11-day visit to Britain in late May.Taking on the flavour of an obsequious circus, complete with fawning … [Read more…]

On 29 May Teresita Trujillo, representing the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, spoke at a meeting in the University of London Union chaired by Jonathan Silberman and sponsored by many individuals and organisations including the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist)Comrade Teresita after briefly summarising how socialist Cuba had handled problems during … [Read more…]