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As the lark sang o’er the meadow greenAnd as I lay in the clover deepWhile the humming bees toiled for their queenThe warm sun cajoled me near to sleepNo facts to disturb the thoughts sereneNor views to make this eight years old weepAs the lark sang o’er the meadow green.As the lark sang o’er the … [Read more…]

On Saturday 11 August 2007, the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) (CPGB-ML) organised a special meeting in Saklatvala Hall to honour Jack Shapiro, a veteran of the communist movement, who has just turned 91. Jack has served the cause of communism for over seven decades. He has been a staunch supporter of the erstwhile … [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…]

For all the carnage and devastation they have wreaked on Iraq, the occupying forces are staring in the face of a most ignominious defeat.The resistance attacks on the occupation forces have become ever more lethal and frequent – running at 180 a day. Even the fortified Green Zone in Baghdad is no longer under the … [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…]