Palestine: Hamas victory – blow to Zionism and imperialism

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…]

Palestine: Resistance alone can bring victory

Slow progress in Gaza Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza represented an important victory for the Palestinian people. All other factors notwithstanding, there is absolutely no question that, were it not for the intense resistance that has been waged over the years by the liberation fighters in Gaza, Israel would never have withdrawn. Nonetheless, as we and … [Read more…]

US begins to lose its grip on its backyard

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…]

60th Anniversary of the liberation of Vienna by the Red Army

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…]

“Socialism with Chinese Characteristics”

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…]

Correction and Apology

In the last issue (November-December) of Lalkar, we carried an article entitled ‘Defend Sean Garland’. In it we referred to him as a “veteran Irish freedom fighter”. Since then our attention has been drawn by a correspondent to facts which show that Sean Garland and his party in fact oppose the struggle for Irish liberation. … [Read more…]

Robert Griffiths’ ‘defence’ of communism – confessions of a Khrushchevite revisionist

Writing in the Communist Party of Britain’s (CPB) ‘independent’ daily revisionist rag, the Morning Star, 3 October 2005, the CPB General Secretary, Robert Griffiths, drew readers’ attention to a report to be put before the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe “on the need for international condemnation of the crimes of Communism.” Griffiths quotes … [Read more…]