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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…]

While the Communist Party of Britain (CPB) whinges to anyone who will listen to them about the wholly warranted criticism that they receive from the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) (CPGB-ML), due to the former’s rotten revisionism, they have once again put their putrid politics of surrender and their deformed brand of internationalism on … [Read more…]

Unprecedented crisisThe world capitalist system is in the midst of a deep recession, threatening to turn into an unprecedented slump, compared with which the 1929 depression, which lasted more than 10 years, would look almost mild. All around us is the spectacle of saturated markets, rising unemployment, plunging stock markets, collapsing giants of finance capital, … [Read more…]

Veteran communist revolutionary, Jack Shapiro, acclaims CPGB-ML Chairman Harpal Brar’s new book as an encyclopaedia of Marxism Leninism.This enormous volume is a collection of Harpal Brar’s articles in Lalkar over a period of 10 years. Quite rightly, it is dedicated to Comrade Lenin, whose work Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism provides the theoretical framework … [Read more…]

The Friends of Korea organised a meeting on Saturday 11 April in Saklatvala Hall, Southall, west London, to celebrate the 97th birthday of the Korean revolutionary leader, Comrade Kim Il Sung. It was an important opportunity to reaffirm solidarity with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) at a time of renewed imperialist belligerence and … [Read more…]

We, the organisations, who make up the Friends of Korea have made it a tradition to have a meeting in April to celebrate the birthday of Comrade Kim Il Sung.  Like all our meetings focussing on Korea, the April meetings centre primarily on current events, which in practice means reporting on the triumphs and setbacks … [Read more…]

My job today is to say a few words about Comrade Kim Il Sung’s contribution to the cause of anti-imperialism. It is a rich subject spanning some seven decades; a cause with which his entire life was identified.In a talk with his comrades towards the end of his life, he summed up the situation by … [Read more…]

The ‘rationalisation’ that accompanied the capitalist crisis of the 1930s – described by Harry Pollitt as “the means whereby the capitalist can lower wages, intensify exploitation … [and] force speeding up in disregard of human life and safety” – is back with a vengeance at the top of the capitalist agenda, with the return of … [Read more…]