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Marxism and the Emancipation of WomenBook Launch: Saturday, 26 February 4 p.m.Saklatvala Hall, Dominion Road, SouthallMain Speaker: Ella Rule[Editor of the new book, Chair of SLP Women’s Section]Cultural Programme: Workers Music Association SingersJoin us in launching this new and important publicationHosted by Ealing Southall Constituency Socialist Labour Party,[Chair: Harpal Brar, Secretary: Iris Cremer, Treasurer: Jagdev … [Read more…]

 This article is based on, and a slightly detailed version of, the speech made by Harpal Brar at a public meeting on November 20th, 1999 in Leicester, to mark the 82nd Anniversary of the Great Socialist October Revolution. The meeting was organised by the Committee to Celebrate the October Revolution with the full support of … [Read more…]

 The Socialist Labour Party (SLP) held its third (that is, if we exclude the Special Congress held in Manchester, 14 November 1998) Congress on the weekend of 6/7 November 1999 in London’s Conway Hall. Apart from Party delegates, the Conference Hall was graced by the presence of fraternal delegates from the DPRK, Cuba, France, Ireland … [Read more…]

 This article was written at the end of October 1999 with a view to being reproduced in the November/December issue of LALKAR. However, lack of space prevented its publication then. The reader ought to keep this in mind when confronted with a reference to expressions such as this year and last year. Nothing has happened … [Read more…]

 The Finsbury Communist Association (FCA) millenium prize for virtual revolution goes to the Communist Party of Great Britain and its paper, the Weekly Worker. There was fierce competition. However, the CPGB came top in all six fields. Geopolitical. Historical. Rhetorical. Hypothetical. Tactical. And philosophical. Its continued re-run of the Russian revolution was highly admired.CPGB leader … [Read more…]

On December 25th, for the fifth Christmas, comrades joined the Hillingdon Hospital Picket in support of the heroic and dedicated strikers.We remind comrades that, in spite of their long struggle against all odds (from hardship on the picket line to betrayal by the UNISON leadership) the Strikers are still in dispute. Although the Industrial Tribunal … [Read more…]

 Did you support the right of the people of East Timor to fight back against the fascist Suharto regime? Did you plan pickets of the pits in the 1984-85 miners’ strike? Did you support action against the cruise missiles based at Greenham Common? Did you support the struggles of the Kurds, the Palestinians, the ANC, … [Read more…]

 The Timesof 31 December 1999 reports the case of a retired miner who froze to death because he could not afford the pay for electricity to heat his house – a one-bedroomed bungalow in Scotland. William Gallagher was only 64, but could not survive the Christmas cold. His wife had in desperation gone to the … [Read more…]

 The memory of the great revolutionary Comrade Shapurji Saklatvala was celebrated on the 11th of December last year with the opening of a new hall in Southall, West London, in his name. The Saklatvala Hall opened with an evening of speeches, songs, good food and festivities in honour of the work and spirit that Comrade … [Read more…]

 On Tuesday 5 October, the 6.03 a.m. Cheltenham Flyer (Intercity express train) collided with the 8.06 a.m. Thames commuter service to Bedwyn at 8.11 a.m. leaving behind a raging inferno in which nearly 40 people were incinerated and dozens more injured. Vic Coleman, Chief Inspector of Railways, who delivered on Friday 8 October his interim … [Read more…]