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Suppression of the First Indian War of IndependenceThe 1857 revolt was suppressed eventually.  Delhi fell to English forces on 20 September 1857.  Lucknow, the second centre of the revolt, was captured by the English on 21 March 1858.  The cruelty that accompanied, and followed, the suppression of the first Indian war of Independence was truly … [Read more…]

_______________________________________________We reproduce below an obituary of Artyom Fedorovich Sergeyev, born 5 March 1921; died 15 January 2008.  It appeared in the Guardian, slipping in as a departure from the usual slanders against Stalin and the Soviet Union.Artyom Sergeyev was a true soviet hero and a steadfast defender of communism, and the obituary is both moving … [Read more…]

The election by the Thai parliament on Monday 28 January 2008 of Samak Sundarajev, leader of the People Power Party (PPP), to serve as Prime Minister of Thailand, at the head of a six-party coalition dominated by the PPP, climaxed a major victory for the Thai people in frustrating a conspiracy against democracy by the … [Read more…]

The threatened prosecution of Scottish solicitor Aamer Anwar for contempt of court is a grotesque assault on the right to effective legal counsel. It is also aimed at intimidating those who oppose the government’s “war on terror”, a racist campaign stigmatising Muslims as a pretext for sweeping attacks on the legal rights of the entire … [Read more…]

As we go to press the news has just come through about the violent death of Benazir Bhutto.  There is not time to include an analysis of this development, so an article will appear in the next issue of our fraternal paper, PROLETARIAN.  In the meantime, for an analysis of the situation in Pakistan, in … [Read more…]

Gandhi, with his characteristic perversity – a perversity in consonance with the interests of the bourgeois-landlord classes of which he, and the Congress Party he led, were the chief representatives – condemned Bhagat Singh and his fellow revolutionaries variously as “deluded patriots”, “men past reason” and “enemies of the country”, whose “revolutionary sacrifice, nobility and … [Read more…]

Reactionaries in imperialist countries, as well as a multitude of petty-bourgeois elements who like to think of themselves as Marxists, are very derogatory about the fact that when the great revolutionary leader Kim Il Sung died, leadership of the DPRK passed to his son, Kim Jong Il.  Never mind that Cde Kim Jong Il’s appointment … [Read more…]

Klaus Barbie, the Nazi of many guises orHow the US secret services recycled the butcher of LyonFor an hour and a half, the film director Kevin MacDonald gives voice to former CIA agents, to retired Bolivian generals, to former French resistance fighters who had undergone torture, and, finally, to Klaus Barbie himself.  In this whole … [Read more…]

The latest issue of Monde Diplomatique (English edition) has given extremely useful information about the successes of the Maoist movement in India, about which one generally hears very little – as indeed one heard very little about the Nepalese Maoist movement until it had effectively conquered 80% of the country. Many people assumed that the … [Read more…]

The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) was formed in 1920 (the Unity Convention in London started the process which was completed at the Leeds Unity Convention in January 1921).The parties/groups that came together to take that most historic step for the British proletariat were:1.        The British Socialist Party (BSP), formally the Social Democratic Federation … [Read more…]