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July 19, 2009, marked the 30th anniversary of Nicaragua’s Sandinista anti-imperialist democratic revolution which brought the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSNL) to power in Nicaragua.What this revolution overthrew was a classic neo-colonial regime that facilitated the submission of Nicaragua’s economy to the interests of US imperialism, and the unconscionable looting of Nicaragua’s wealth by … [Read more…]

Saturday 6pm 7 NovemberSpeakers include Bob Crow, General Secretary, RMT and other international and fraternal guests.Saklatvala Hall, Southall, Dominion road, off Featherstone Road, UB2 5AAOrganised by CPGB-ML  www.cpgb-ml.org Further details from 01924 218737 or info@cpgb-ml.org

First of all I want to make it clear that we in Nepal are trying our best to apply the fundamental theory of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism in our very concrete conditions.We are completely aware, we are fully aware, that we have a very big responsibility and we have a real historical opportunity and challenge right now that … [Read more…]

The Nepalese Prime Minister, UCPN-M chairman Prachanda, resigned on 4 May as a result of Nepal’s President Ram Baran Yadav overturning his decision to sack the Nepalese army chief, Rookmangud Katawal, without the consent of his coalition partners.  Katawal was in fact guilty of refusing to obey instructions from the elected civilian government, as well … [Read more…]

Twenty-six years ago, at the beginning of the conflict in Sri Lanka, we wrote an article denouncing the Sri Lankan government’s policy of discrimination against the Tamils but at the same time pointing out the incorrectness of the demand for self-determination, both in point of theory and practicability, for the Sri Lankan Tamils.Twenty-six years and … [Read more…]

On 6 May 2009, General Valentin Varennikov died, aged 85 in Moscow.  His life was a model of loyalty and service to the Soviet proletariat through good times and bad.  Born a poor Cossack, his ambition from the age of 5 was to become a soldier.  He graduated from officer cadet school in 1942 and … [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…]