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For the immediate and unconditional release of Jose Maria Sison (Philippines)The New Communist Party Netherlands (NCPN) and the Workers’ Party of Belgium (PTB) vehemently condemn the arrest and detention of Jose Maria Sison (68) by the Dutch authorities, last August 28 in the city of Utrecht. Simultaneously, police raids were held in the homes of … [Read more…]

In the preface to his book Imperialism – the eve of social revolution published earlier this year, Harpal Brar wrote the following:“The last recession, which began with the bursting of the dotcom bubble in the second half of 2000 and lasted for 3 years, furnished yet further eloquent testimony to the truth of the postulates … [Read more…]

The Irish Green Party has abandoned a number of core political beliefs in order to enter into a coalition government in Dublin, securing the return of Fianna Fail’s Bertie Ahern as 26-County Taoiseach.Progressives and radicals were dismayed when a meeting of party delegates strongly backed a programme for government containing rehashed Fianna Fail policies taken … [Read more…]

Ivory Cost is a former French colony in West Africa which sporadically gets a mention in the newspapers because of the civil war that has been going on there since 2002 and which has led to de facto partition of the country. The civil war is of benefit neither to the broad masses of the … [Read more…]

Dear comradesIt was a real joy to receive the latest issue of Lalkar after putting up with a week of Trotskyite stodge at a union conference. Of course some Lalkar articles are a bit too long and wordy but it was good to see some solid Marxist Leninist class analysis.However I would take issue with … [Read more…]

Hamas Election VictoryIn January 2006, the Palestinian Authority (PA) held parliamentary elections, which had long been demanded by US imperialism as proof of the democratic credentials of the Palestinian political leadership. The results stunned Israeli zionism and its chief backer US imperialism, for they produced a lightening victory for Hamas which gained 44 per cent … [Read more…]

It is with great sadness that we report the death of Comrade Pat Coulton on Friday 22 June. Pat was politically active all his life, with a steadfast record of fighting for communism and opposing revisionism and social democracy. Comrades will remember his recent work both in the CPGB-ML and in the Stalin Society.LALKAR sends … [Read more…]

In preparing this article, we have drawn on just one source: Engels’ groundbreaking 1884 work, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State. To read Origin of the Family is to revolutionise one’s understanding of the world. For those of us brought up on a diet of eclectic, disconnected historical snippets, educated in … [Read more…]

The bombs in the Assembly episode set into motion a train of events that were to haul Bhagat Singh and his comrades before a specially constituted tribunal in Lahore in the famous Second Lahore Conspiracy trial and send them to the gallows. Bhagat Singh was suspected of being implicated in the killing of Saunders. The … [Read more…]

Gorbachev told the Soviet people that the revolutionary class interests of the world’s toilers must be subordinated to the concept of a “universal human interest”. Too much stress upon the “enemy image” of imperialism, too much class struggle, risked freezing all further human history into a “nuclear winter”. Now the people of the former USSR … [Read more…]