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Dear comradeWhen we look at the Government’s plans to hold terror suspects for three months without charge, we should recall it was Apartheid South Africa Minister of Justice, John Vorster who in 1963 enacted the General Law Amendment Act; better known as the Ninety Day Law. This helped the Government to transform the country into … [Read more…]

The Lisbon Treaty was signed by the member countries of the European Union (EU) in December 2007. Before coming into effect on 1 January 2009 it has to be ratified by all the 27 member states of the EU. Prior to the Irish referendum 18 countries had already done so. On 13 June, the result … [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…]

Extraordinary price hikes in the cost of foodThere is a crisis in food production and distribution which is causing high prices and rioting by hungry masses all over the world.Last year wheat prices rose 77% while rice prices rose 16%.  “The global food bill has risen 57% in the last year, the price of rice … [Read more…]

Many more people have heard of BP than have heard of Ineos, but the strike struggle against that company which has broken out at the massive Grangemouth oil refinery goes right to the heart of the overproduction crisis of capitalism.Ineos is not primarily an oil company at all, but rather a chemical business which has … [Read more…]

20th March this year marked the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, and 9th April the overthrow of the regime of President Saddam Hussein, by the predatory armies of Anglo-American imperialism.  So excited were the political and ideological spokesmen of US and British imperialism by the prospects of an easy victory over Iraq, and … [Read more…]

The Friends of Korea organised a well-attended public meeting at London’s Marx Memorial Library on Saturday 12 April to celebrate the 96th birthday of the late Korean revolutionary leader Comrade Kim Il Sung and to outline some of his great contributions to the global anti-imperialist struggle. The meeting was chaired by Comrade Harpal Brar, Chairman … [Read more…]

Much to the amazement and consternation of the capitalist world, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) [CPN(M)] has won the Constituency Assembly elections in Nepal, leaving its opponents trailing far behind in its wake.  Of the 218 (out of 240) directly elected seats finalised by 18 April 2008, CPN(M) had won 116, compared to 34 … [Read more…]