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Fourteen years ago Patrick Finucane was murdered by British imperialism. On Sunday 12 February 1989 he was shot fourteen times in front of his wife and three children by two masked gunmen who burst into his home in the early evening. They escaped in a car driven by an accomplice. The next day the Ulster … [Read more…]

When the Anglo-American imperialist bandits launched their war of aggression against Iraq on 20 March, they had deluded themselves into believing that their invading armies would be greeted as liberators by the Iraqi people and that the invasion would coincide with the uprisings of Iraqi people against the regime of Saddam Hussein’s Ba’ath Party, and … [Read more…]

________________ Henry Metelmann’s vivid recollections of his life in the Hitler Youth and as a tank driver in the Panzer Division at the Battle of Stalingrad are reproduced below, based on his speech at the Stalin Society AGM, Conway Hall, London, 23 February 2003. ______________ I was a member of the Communist Party of Great … [Read more…]

Elections have been taking place in Nigeria, both for Parliament (on 12 April) and for the governorships of its various states and for the Presidency (on 19 April). Both elections, in which the ruling People’s Democratic Party gained an overwhelming majority, were flawed by widespread electoral fraud, as a result of which there have been … [Read more…]

“To initiate a war of aggression”, affirmed the judges at the Nuremberg trial of prominent Nazi leaders, “is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.” The US Supreme Court justice, Samuel L Jackson, … [Read more…]

In the January/February 2002 issue of Lalkar, I published an article on the Consolidation of the Oil Industry under the title ‘Three sisters and a poor cousin’. At the end of that article I promised to deal with consolidation in the pharmaceutical industry in the following (March-April) issue. More pressing work, however, prevented me from … [Read more…]

UN inspectors refuse to endorse Washington’s wild allegations against Baghdad. The French threaten to veto any new resolution giving UN approval for aggression. Two million demonstrate in London alone, joining countless more millions around the world. So what does our panic-stricken PM do? Stakes everything on the pretence that war is “morally” justified by the … [Read more…]

Fifty years ago, on March 5 1953, Joseph Stalin, the architect of socialism and the inspirer of the victory against the mighty Nazi war machine, breathed his last. Just as during his life, so in his death, he continued to be hated as no-one else by the ideologues of the imperialist bourgeoisie and its agents … [Read more…]

“Stalin – The man who really believed in the working class and evoked from it all that creative genius and energy which has astounded the world for over 30 years and will do more so in the future.” Today, countless millions of people in every country in the world are plunged into the deepest grief … [Read more…]

“Man’s dearest possession is life, and since it is given to him to live but once, he must so live as to feel no torturing regrets for years without purpose; so live as not to be seared with the shame of a cowardly and trivial past; so live, that dying he can say: All my … [Read more…]