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In the January/February 2008 edition of Lalkar we carried an article which highlighted the revolutionary programmes of British Communism and finished it with a few brief words about the revisionist British Road to Socialism.  The purpose of this article is to broaden that analysis and criticism of the series of programmes of first the Communist … [Read more…]

October 2008 has seen the most extraordinary and abrupt deepening of the world economic crisis of overproduction.The Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, as he contemplated the financial system crashing round him, was forced to conclude: “This is … possibly the largest financial crisis of its kind in human history”.The fact is that although … [Read more…]

On Saturday 4 October, a diverse audience of over 80 people packed into Southall’s Saklatvala Hall to attend a highly spirited meeting organised by Hands off China and the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) (CPGB-ML) celebrating the 59th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, which fell on October 1. In … [Read more…]

“The news out of Afghanistan is truly alarming”, announced the International Herald Tribune of 21 August 2008,[1] the reason being that “the number of US and NATO casualties is mounting so quickly that unless something happens soon, this could be the deadliest year of the Afghan war.  Kabul … is increasingly besieged, and Taliban and … [Read more…]

The Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) (CPGB-ML) launched the Hands off China campaign at a well-attended spirited and militant rally in central London on the evening of Saturday 19 July.The speakers were Comrades Harpal Brar, Chairman of the CPGB-ML; Jack Shapiro, veteran British communist and staunch friend of China since the 1930s; Avtar Singh … [Read more…]

Barbaric Georgian attackOn the night of 7/8 August, as the attention of the world was firmly focused on the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, the arch reactionary Georgian regime of Mikheil Saakashvili, driven by an innate hatred of everything Russian, encouraged by the US’s promises of Georgian membership of NATO, having received enormous quantities … [Read more…]

Democratic national rights lostThe present conflict between Russia and Georgia, to use James Connolly’s prescient phrase when he warned of the partition of Ireland, stems from the “carnival of reaction” that inevitably followed the break-up of the Soviet Union.J V Stalin was not only an expert in the national question in general but also in … [Read more…]

LALKAR has been marking the 150th anniversary of the outbreak of the First Indian War of Independence (1857-1859) with a series of articles.With part 1, in our November/December 2007 issue, we showed the causes of this, the largest anti-colonial uprising anywhere in the world in the 19th century, engulfing about 35 per cent of present-day … [Read more…]

The Friends of Korea organised an enthusiastic meeting and social at Saklatvala Hall in Southall, west London, on Saturday 26 July to jointly celebrate the 55th anniversary of the Korean people’s victory in their war of resistance against US imperialism and of the attack on the Moncada Barracks, which heralded the start of the Cuban … [Read more…]

It was on New Year’s Day 1959 that Fidel Castro led his rebel army into the Cuban capital, Havana, after nearly three years of armed struggle against the US puppet dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista.When he did so, it was to reaffirm the sovereignty of the Cuban people after sixty years of domination by US imperialism, … [Read more…]