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What are foundation hospitals? If the Labour Party and their Government are to be believed the reform programme which includes foundation hospitals “…is every bit as radical and progressive as that which created the NHS over fifty years ago. It draws on the traditions of social and community ownership that inspired the founders of the … [Read more…]

Occupiers unable to control Iraq Nearly five months after the fall of Baghdad, the ‘liberators’ of the Iraqi people, to wit, the Anglo-American imperialist armies of occupation, are no nearer to getting a grip on the country and are barely able to control its main roads. Iraq today is characterised by non-functioning public utilities, lawlessness, … [Read more…]

It was the bourgeois liberal, Hobson, who at the time of the Boer War put forward the theory of the joint exploitation by the leading imperialist powers of the rest of the world. This theory was dusted up, re-christened as the theory of ultra-imperialism by Karl Kautsky, the leading theoretician of the Second International, in … [Read more…]

Lalkar is proud to publish the following article by the Society for Friendship with Korea (SFK) written on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the end of the victorious Fatherland Liberation war of the Korean people against the US-led imperialist war of aggression. This July 2003 marks the 50th anniversary of the end of … [Read more…]

As the United States wages predatory imperialist wars abroad it simultaneously launches vicious attacks on political prisoners in US prisons. The Miami Five have been targeted in this latest onslaught and have been placed in solitary confinement. They are five Cubans who were trying to stop the ultra-rightwing terrorist groups in Miami from carrying out … [Read more…]

Reoccupation of PA territory Ever since the events of 11 September 2001, the Zionist colonialist settler regime of Israel, taking advantage of US imperialism’s predatory wars of aggression, presented as the “war on terrorism”, has intensified its repression of the Palestinian people. In particular, while international attention was focussed on Iraq, the Zionist authorities moved … [Read more…]

As a mark of admiration for the colossal achievements of the Soviet proletariat under the banner of Marxism-Leninism, this is the third in a series of articles highlighting the epoch-making victories of the Soviet Union during the 3 decades of Stalin’s leadership of the CPSU(B). At commemoration organised by the Institute for Marxist Studies (IMAST), … [Read more…]

Land seizures, the background In recent months, more than 23 years after gaining independence and majority rule, the government of Zimbabwe finally expropriated the remaining approximately 4,000 surplus[1] commercial farms owned by white people – the whites having had up until now a virtual monopoly over commercial farming in Zimbabwe. According to Stephen Chan[2], “In … [Read more…]

My book Trotskyism or Leninism? has been translated into the French language and published in Belgium. I would like to take this opportunity to thank, from the bottom of my heart, the PTB (Party of Labour Belgium), its theoretical journal D’Etudes Marxists (Marxist Studies), the publishing house EPO, and all the comrades who worked so … [Read more…]

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in the Netherlands outside The Hague War Crimes Tribunal (ICTY) on Saturday 28th June to demand the release of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic and the other political prisoners who resisted the 78 day NATO bombing campaign conducted against the sovereign state of Yugoslavia in 1999. The Yugoslav organisers of the … [Read more…]