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In recent months events in Somalia have been going through some twists and turns. The US inspired brutal occupation of Somalia by Ethiopian troops has patently failed to deliver the country into US hegemony. For two years Somali resistance forces have resolutely fought the occupation by Ethiopian troops and an African Union (AU) so-called peace … [Read more…]

The Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) submitted the resolution below to the Annual General Meeting of the Stop the War Coalition (StWC) on 25 April, and it was passed near unanimously.  In addition it had the full support of the StWC officers.  Lalkar is pleased to reproduce this resolution, which has now become a … [Read more…]

For several days in April, Thailand appeared to be on the brink of a democratic revolution,  with the popular forces, led by the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), popularly known as ‘Red Shirts’, in control of the streets of the capital, Bangkok and a number of other major cities, and signs of a … [Read more…]

Coming 3-4 June marks the 20th anniversary of the crushing of the counter-revolutionary rebellion in Beijing by the People’s Liberation Army.  Just as the original events, doubtless this anniversary will be another occasion for the imperialist propaganda machine to go into overdrive in an effort to whip up anti-Chinese and anti-socialist hysteria.  The Chinese people, … [Read more…]

At around 7:20pm on Wednesday 1st April 2009, as he made his way home through the city of London, 47 year old Ian Tomlinson, father of 9, was brutally attacked by uniformed thugs of London’s notorious Territorial Support Group (TSG) Riot Police.The attack was witnessed (among others) by photographer Anna Braithwaite, who said: “I can … [Read more…]

Obama is continuing George Bush’s policy almost to the letter in Afghanistan – just as he always said he would.  He criticises his predecessor for not having organised an earlier ‘surge’ such as that which is supposed to have ‘pacified’ Iraq, but in fact Bush had planned something of a ‘surge’, and Obama is implementing … [Read more…]

The growing world-wide storm of resistance by workers that raised its banner in Greece in response to the swingeing attacks on the living standards of the working class, coupled with the police murder of a young protester, is sparking confrontation in the centres of imperialism and third world towns alike as a major crisis of … [Read more…]

Thousands upon thousands of words have been written about the dispute that started at the Lindsey oil refinery and spread across the nation from Plymouth to Fife. From the revisionist Morning Star through the Guardian and other broadsheets, to the murky recesses of the Daily Mail and the race-hate sheets of Britain’s ultra-racist BNP this … [Read more…]

We the undersigned are all of Jewish origin. When we see the dead and bloodied bodies of young children, the cutting off of water, electricity and food, we are reminded of the siege of the Warsaw Ghetto. When Dov Weisglass, an adviser to the Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, talked of putting Gazans “on a … [Read more…]

Review of the Theses of the CC of the KKE for its 18th CongressThe Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) (CPGB-ML) produced in January an enthusiastic review of the Theses which the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) produced for its 18th Party Congress on 18-22 February 2009, where the Theses were … [Read more…]