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October 1st this year marks the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Along with hundreds of millions of people around the world, especially in the vast continents of Asia, Africa and Latin America, but also among the advanced and class conscious workers in the imperialist heartlands, Lalkar extends its … [Read more…]

The Editorial Board of Lalkar and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) express their deepest and most heartfelt condolences to Comrade Joti Brar, to her husband Carl Norburn, and to all their family members on the tragic death of their baby son Josef.  Josef was stillborn on the morning of … [Read more…]

Almost without exception, the bourgeois media have been forced to come round to the view that the current capitalist economic crisis is going to be at least as serious as that which started in 1929.  Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, International Business Editor of the Daily Telegraph, contemplating the effects of the economic downturn in Germany and Spain … [Read more…]

The revolutionary movement, and all Indian progressives and patriots, lost the last living link with one of the most glorious pages of India’s anti-imperialist history when Comrade Baba Bhagat Singh Bilga, popularly known as Baba Bilga, passed away on 22 May in Birmingham at the age of 102.Baba Bilga was the last surviving member of … [Read more…]

Paper presented by Harpal Brar, Chairman of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist), to the International Communist Seminar held in Brussels 15-17 May 2009, entitled ‘ Current Crisis of Overproduction’.  In the last issue of Lalkar we dealt with the worst crisis of overproduction since 1929.  In this, the concluding part, we deal with … [Read more…]

The results: Labour gets a grillingThe local and European Parliament elections conducted on 4 June were, as was widely predicted, a disaster for Labour, which suffered its worst election result since the Second World War. In the local elections (for all 27 County Councils, three existing Unitary Authorities and five new Unitary Authorities), Labour managed … [Read more…]

Elections to India’s 15th Lok Sabha (the lower house of the Indian parliament) took place in a five-stage process, which began on 16 April and ended on 13 May 2009.  In this month-long process, involving 828,804 polling stations, 6.1 million police and civic personnel, 1.4 million electronic voting machines, the participation of 1,055 political parties … [Read more…]

Presidential elections were held in Iran on 12 June, as they have been regularly since the victory of the Islamic revolution 30 years ago. The incumbent President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad scored a decisive victory, receiving 63.3 per cent of the vote (24.5 million votes), obviating the need for a second round of voting, whilst his closest … [Read more…]

Friends of Korea held a meeting at Marx Memorial Library, London, on 27 June 2009 to commemorate the anniversary of the start of the Korean War – which the Koreans call the Fatherland Liberation War – launched by US imperialism and its allies on 25 June 1950.The meeting was designed as a panel discussion with … [Read more…]

While the United States, Britain and other imperialist powers have strained every nerve to brand the free and fair presidential election in Iran as rigged and fraudulent, and to use all manner of extra-legal means to overturn the result, they have hailed as a great victory the 7 June election in Lebanon, which, despite the … [Read more…]