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The year 2004 marked the 25th anniversary of the publication of the of the anti-imperialist newspaper Lalkar. Over the years, Lalkar has consistently upheld the principles of Marxism Leninism. It has clearly analysed the world we live in, explained what is necessary to change it, exposed the class forces at work behind surface appearances and … [Read more…]

Pablo Neruda, the famous poet and politician, was born in July 1904. In celebration of his centenary year we are now reproducing these extracts from Adam Feinstein’s biography of Neruda, along with Neruda’s poem on the death of Stalin, which we were unable to include, due to lack to space, in the last issue of … [Read more…]

Last year’s plummeting share prices have caused thousands of people to be deprived of all or part of the occupational pensions they expected to receive on retirement. This, among other things, has caused the government to set up under Adair Turner, former CBI chief, a commission to investigate the pensions situation and to come up … [Read more…]

()As we go to print, Viktor Yushchenko has claimed victory in the re-run for the Ukrainian presidential elections held on December 26, 2004. On the other hand, Viktor Yanukovich, declared the winner in the last elections, annulled by the Ukrainian supreme court, has refused to concede defeat, claiming that there were huge violations and that … [Read more…]

In their thousands, the delegates started arriving at the Harare International Conference Centre (HICC) on Wednesday, 1st Dec, with high expectations that the Congress will address their uppermost concerns, ranging from progress on the land acquisition and resettlement programme to economic turnaround and job creation, extra resources for new farmers to ensure the productive use … [Read more…]

At the end of July, journalist and writer Paul Foot died of a heart attack at the age of 66. His obituaries appeared in many leading bourgeois dailies. Socialist News, the vacuous bi-monthly sheet of the near extinct Socialist Labour Party (SLP) of Arthur Scargill, also honoured Paul Foot in its September/October 2004 issue in … [Read more…]

It is with great sorrow that Lalkar learned of the death of Ray Stevenson, the Associate Editor of North Star Compass and Executive member of the International Council for Friendship and Solidarity with Soviet People. He passed away after a long illness on Tuesday, August 24, 2004 in Toronto at the St. Michael’s Hospital. He … [Read more…]

At the invitation of ZANU(PF), Harpal Brar, Editor of Lalkar and Chairman of Zimbabwe Solidarity Front, attended a Conference in Harare, April 20-23, with the theme The Liberation Struggle Continues. Based on his participation at the Conference, the papers presented at it, as well as other information, he wrote an article on the land question … [Read more…]

LALKAR expresses its deep sorrow at the passing away of comrade Yasser Arafat, without a doubt one of the greatest anti-imperialist fighters of our time, and the most representative spokesman of the Palestinian people for over 40 years. Arafat has been involved in every significant event in the history of the movement for Palestinian liberation … [Read more…]

On Saturday 30th October, the Centre for Marxist Research (KME), the research instituted of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), held an important conference on the question of developments in the European Union and its prospects in the light of its recent enlargement, with special emphasis on the relationship between the project for ‘European Unification’ … [Read more…]