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We shall see who resists longer! Extractsfrom a text published inGranmaon February 18 and sworn as a commitment by thousands of Cubans in Mangos de Baragua on Saturday 19THERE can be no doubt: in spite of the statement by the Secretary of State on the issue of kidnapped Cuban child Elián González on February 17 in … [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…]

Diarmuid O’NeillAn inquest into the death of Diarmuid O’Neill, gunned down in Hammersmith in 1996 by police marksmen, found – by majority verdict – that Diarmuid was “lawfully” killed. It seems that the police have licence to kill anybody if they claim that they believe him to be armed, however incorrect the alleged belief!Gerry Kelly, … [Read more…]

In an interview he gave on Turkish radio recently, Mikhail Gorbachev, the former General Secretary of the CPSU and President of the Soviet Union, made the shameful admission that his ambition, all along, was“to liquidate communism”.We publish below the transcript of Gorbachev’s interview from the latest edition ofNorth Star Compass, organ of the Canadian based … [Read more…]

a mirror of imperialist racismFollowing the Austrian general election last year, Jörg Haider’s far right Freedom Party, which increased its share of the vote from 5% in 1986 to 27%, joined with the centre-right People’s Party to form a coalition government in which each of these two parties has an equal number of ministers. Haider, … [Read more…]

IraqHans von Sponeck, head of the UN’s oil-for food programme and its top official in Iraq, and Jutta Purghart, head of the UN World Food Programme in Iraq, have just resigned from their posts. The resignations were in protest at the impossibility of implementing the UN’s humanitarian programmes under the sanctions regime. Both UN officials … [Read more…]

faithful service to imperialismThere are people in the left movement, including some calling themselves communists, who make the assertion that the Labour Party is a party of the British working class, which can be an instrument of socialism in Britain. They are wrong. The purpose of this 2-part article is to demonstrate that Labour right … [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…]