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Fahim Ahmed, a prominent SLP Youth member was, like thousands of others in the past few months, arrested and detained (without so much as the suspicion of an offence) under the draconian new terrorism legislation. Another leading SLP member, Sukant Chandan, was also detained under the new anti-terrorist laws just a week or two before … [Read more…]

U.S. imperialism began its present predatory war against the people of Afghanistan on 7th October 2001. Begun in the name of waging a “war against terrorism”, it is actually the continuation of the terrorist war that U.S. imperialism has been waging against Afghanistan since the spring of 1979. In this war, 2.5 million Afghans, representing … [Read more…]

In the last (September-October) issue of Lalkar, we stated the following in connection with the murder of PFLP leader, Abu Ali Mustafa, by the Israeli state: “With Mustafa’s assassination, the Zionist establishment will have no one but itself to blame if the Palestinian resistance decides, as it may well do, to target senior Israeli politicians … [Read more…]

Railtrack, the company to which the government sold British Rail’s tracks, signals and stations for what was considered at the time (1996) to be the bargain-basement price of £1.8 billion, has gone bust. On Sunday 7 October the government announced that it was using its powers under the Railways Act of 1993 to put the … [Read more…]

Every day throughout the world an estimated 55,000 people are killed by malnutrition. Many more are killed by diseases that are easily preventable. Behind these deaths lie the many agreements forced upon the oppressed nations by bankers, politicians and generals from across the imperialist world. As the crisis of the world economy has deepened it … [Read more…]

“Every crisis”, observed Lenin, “casts off the conventional, tears away outer wrappings, sweeps away the obsolete and reveals the underlying springs and forces.” In making this observation, Lenin had in mind the epoch of crisis for the nations of western Europe, and for the entire imperialist system, caused by the first world war. His observation … [Read more…]

The word ‘terrorism’ is much used in our daily lives through the media of television, newspapers, the internet or conversation and yet in takes on different meaning depending on who is using the word and what it is in relation to. The definition in the Oxford Reference Dictionary is “the systematic use of violence and … [Read more…]

On the evening of 7 October, US imperialism, with the full support and participation of British imperialism, unleashed a brutal war of aggression against the Afghan people, already suffering the devastating effects of a proxy war waged by the very powers who are today raining death and destruction on Afghanistan on the pretext of the … [Read more…]

Report from the 15thWorld Festival of Youth and Students in Algiers8-16 August this year saw the convening of the 15thWorld Festival of Youth and Students under the slogan, ‘Let’s Globalise the Struggle for Peace, Solidarity and Development, Against Imperialism’.Established after the end of WWII as a broad front against imperialism, the Festival is run by … [Read more…]