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The sixteenth of October marked the 40th anniversary of the high-profile protest made by two US athletes against their own racist imperialist ruling class at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. That morning, Tommie Smith won the 200m gold medal in a world record time of 19.83 seconds, with Australia’s Peter Norman finishing second and American … [Read more…]

Ethan Pollock wrote Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars in 2006.  This review of the book shows how the Soviet archives provided evidence of the widespread debates and knowledge concerning science which took place throughout the Soviet Union during the period under consideration, namely 1945 to 1953, to which even this bourgeois academic had to … [Read more…]

Political deadlockAt the time of going to press, the political deadlock in Zimbabwe remains unbroken. The parliamentary seats are divided roughly equally between ZANU-PF and the misleadingly-named Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T, led by Morgan Tsvangirai), with a few seats taken by the Mutambara faction of the MDC (which has over the past few months … [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…]

On 18 August, hours before the Pakistani parliament was due to consider formal impeachment proceedings against him, General Musharraf resigned from his post as Pakistan’s president.  Ninety per cent of the Pakistani people greeted this with genuine relief and happiness.Hated regimeWhat made him a special target of hatred was his total subservience to US imperialism … [Read more…]

An influential leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) and its General Secretary for 13 years, Comrade Harkishan Singh Surjeet died on 1 August 2008 at the age of 92.  At the Memorial Meeting held in Southall on 30 August, Harpal Brar, speaking on behalf of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist), … [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…]