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by Zane CarpenterEveryone is now aware that the Labour Home Secretary, Jack Straw, ‘has a mind to release’ the mass murderer, General Augusto Pinochet. But what has led Mr Straw to be so ‘minded’?The official reason is medical advice, intended to have been kept secret, which, supposedly, casts doubt on the ability of Pinochet to … [Read more…]

US stock marketMichael Mussa, chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is reported in theFinancial Timesof 25 February 2000 that current overvaluation of the US stock market“may be greater[than at the time of the 1987 Wall Street Crash]and a larger and more prolonged correction may be appropriate”.

In the last article in this series we detailed the cruelty and inefficiency that characterised the anachronistic feudal Tibetan regime at the time of the Chinese Revolution. The inefficiency of the system meant that Tibet could not produce nearly enough of the necessaries of life to meet the needs of the masses of Tibetan serfs … [Read more…]

Take a stand against Britain’s racist immigration laws.A picket of the Home Office, Queen Anne’s Gate, London was organised by Indian Workers Association (GB) on 15th February. Ealing Southall CSLP supported this action and distributed the following information as part of its mobilisation for the picket.Britain’s immigration laws and the way that they are used … [Read more…]

– Marxism and the Emancipation of WomenOn 26 February, at Saklatvala Hall in Southall, a new book was launched entitledMarxism and the Emancipation of Women.Ella Rule, the editor of this new book, explained that the decision to bring it out was based on the need to counteract the negative effect on the cause of women’s … [Read more…]

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…]

 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…]