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A near civil war is raging in the Niger Delta over the region’s oil production. The region’s oil wells do not belong to local people or even to Nigerians but are the exclusive preserve of foreign multinationals who loot the oil wealth through corrupt military and civil local administrations: according to People’s Daily Online of … [Read more…]

Ours is not the first generation to encounter migration on a vast scale. 200 million people, representing 3% of the global population, work outside their countries – double the number of migrants 25 years ago. This new wave of migration (for which there are several reasons to which we shall turn later on), especially that … [Read more…]

On 2 February 2006, the Board of the International Atomic Energy Commission, under heavy pressure from US imperialism, finally “referred” Iran to the Security Council of the United Nations, due to meet on 6 March. From the day that the Iranian people overthrew the regime of US imperialism’s most beloved puppet, the Shah, the US … [Read more…]

The coming 20 March marks the third anniversary of the commencement of the Anglo-American imperialist predatory war against the people of Iraq. Before the end of April, the aggressors had captured Baghdad and illegally overthrown the regime of the elected Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein. George W Bush, against the backdrop of a banner reading ‘Mission … [Read more…]

Under the auspices of a Preparatory Committee for the celebration, formed by representatives of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist), the New Communist Party, the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist), the Society for Friendship with Korea and others, a meeting was held on Saturday 14 February 2006 at Saklatvala Hall in Southall, west … [Read more…]

On the occasion of the New Year Juche 95 (2006), Rodong Sinmun, the official organ of the Workers’ Party of Korea Central Committee, Josoninmingun and Chongnyonjonwi issued the following joint editorial in their papers. Last year Juche 94 (2005) was a year of fruitful efforts and a year of great creation and change replete with … [Read more…]

The election victory of Hamas in the West Bank and Gaza marks a momentous sea-change for the Palestinian struggle for self-determination. It demonstrates very clearly that the Palestinian population have had enough of a failed peace process whereby the Palestinians are forced into making more and more concessions whilst the Israelis continue to hold them … [Read more…]

The decline of US imperialism In 1964, Comrade Mao Tse-tung, in expressing his support for the struggle of the people of Panama against US imperialism, uttered the following words, which seem truly prophetic in the light of developments in the world today. “Riding roughshod everywhere, US imperialism has made itself the enemy of the people … [Read more…]

On 13 April 1945 the Red Army completed the liberation of Vienna. Today, we once again want to express our gratitude for this and, further, in the memory of all the fighters who fell in that struggle, commit ourselves to a socialist future. From official Austria the commemoration of the liberation of Austria by the … [Read more…]

Tienanmen Square: Chinese Counter-Revolution Crushed In the August/September 1989 issue of Lalkar we wrote an article entitled ‘Chinese Counter-Revolution Crushed’. In this article, we exposed the lies of the imperialist media, and its flunkeys in the working-class movement – the Trotskyites, Revisionists and Social-Democrats – concerning the alleged “massacre” and “bloodbath” in Tienanmen Square, Beijing, … [Read more…]