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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…]

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…]