Iraqi people shall emerge victorious!

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…]

Sixty years after the Soviet victory at Stalingrad – the turning point in the war against Nazi fascism. Henry Metelmann’s personal account of his experiences in the German Panzers at Stalingrad

________________ 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…]

War and opportunism

“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…]

The Pharmaceuticals Mafia – Consolidation in the drugs industry

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…]

Economic crisis and Imperialism’s War frenzy

Those trying to understand how the overproduction crisis of imperialism connects up with the current Anglo-American war frenzy would do well to hearken to the doom-laden Jeremiad from Martin Wolf in the Financial Times (‘The markets are too eager to discount the cost of war’, 26-03-03). Noting how the initial stock market euphoria which greeted … [Read more…]

Letter to the Independent – unpublished

Dear Sir We read with rapt attention the highly stimulating, well-researched and scholarly piece, stuffed full with a wealth of detail of an unprecedentedly original type, by a certain Mr Johann Hari in the Independent of 5 March (‘Stalin died 50 years ago, but his legacy lives on’). On a more serious note, we had … [Read more…]

Death to Anglo-American imperialist war against Iraq!

As we go to press, US and British imperialism are poised to unleash a murderous, predatory and imperialist war of aggression against Iraq on the pretext of Iraq’s alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), but actually to monopolise the oil resources of Iraq and other countries in the Middle East, which account for … [Read more…]

BBC SERIES ‘THE FALL OF MILOSEVIC’ – A MOCKERY OF HISTORY

On November 5th 1990, the U.S. House and Senate passed Foreign Operations Appropriation Law 101-513 calling for the cut-off of aid and credits to Yugoslavia, knowing full well the destabilising effect that this would have, since conducting trade without credits is virtually impossible in the modern world. At this time there was no civil war, … [Read more…]