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reproduced from RM Distribution, with thanks. Ethnic cleansing ‘must end’The two loyalist pipe bomb attacks in Randalstown, County Antrim on Wednesday [April 14] are only the latest in a long list of attacks which,“amount to nothing short of a sectarian pogrom against Catholics in the South Antrim since the beginning of the year”,said the area’s Sinn … [Read more…]

This year will mark 20 years since Comrade Jagmohan Joshi, General Secretary of the Indian Workers Association (GB) for several years, died on June 3, 1979.He was not only a relentless fighter against racism but also a tireless participant in the anti-imperialist and working-class movement. Those of us who had the privilege to know him … [Read more…]

Institutionalised Racism in Police – OfficialAs we go to press, the provisions of the report resulting from the inquiry by Sir William Macpherson into the murder of the black teenager, Stephen Lawrence by five white youths have been leaked to the press (the Macpherson Report is due to be officially released on Wednesday 24 February). … [Read more…]

The Midlands could be plunged into economic depression as a result of the crisis of overproduction in the car industry. Tens of thousands of workers may soon be unable to afford even to ride in buses. Why? Because they have produced too many cars!When during early February the bourgeois press was reporting the threatened closure … [Read more…]

By Prabir PurkayasthaReproduced fromPeople’s Democracy, January 10, 1999, with thanks.The current controversy on the changes to India’s Patent laws, the resistance to the Monsanto seed trials and Microsoft’s troubles with the anti-monopoly authorities are all aspects of the drive of global MNCs [multi-national corporations] to derive monopoly super profits. The basis of such monopoly profits … [Read more…]

Ocalan handed over to the butchersOn the evening of Monday 15 February, Mr.Abdullah Ocalan, the highly-respected and much-loved leader of the PKK (Workers’ Party of Kurdistan) – the party representing the national aspirations of the Kurdish people of south eastern Turkey – was handed over by the imperialist hyenas and their stooges to the tender … [Read more…]

Suresh Grover, manager of the Monitoring Group, the anti-racist pressure group based in Southall, which is representing the Reel family, gives his viewpoint on the police investigation into the death of Ricky Reel.The Reel family face 1999 with their grief over the loss of Ricky compounded by the smokescreen of evasiveness that the Metropolitan Police … [Read more…]

Launch of the London Region of Reclaim our RightsGrand Committee Room, House of Commons, 2 February 1999 The London Region RECLAIM OUR RIGHTS campaign was launched in the Grand Committee Room of the House of Commons on 2 February 1999. The room was packed out, with some 500 people attending, and standing room only for latecomers. … [Read more…]

 On Saturday 20 February, a meeting was held in Southall in support of the Skychef workers, who have been picketing the Skychef premises at Hatton Cross round the clock for the last three months, since they were sacked (273 of them) for going on a one-day official strike (see Comrade Adesh’s speech at the Reclaim … [Read more…]

“Challenge to Imperial Hegemony – the life story of a great Indian PatriotUDHAM SINGH” On 31 July 1940 the great Indian patriot, Udham Singh, was hanged at Pentonville Prison for the murder, on 13 March 1940, of Sir Michael O’Dwyer, the former lieutenant governor of Punjab and the notorious butcher of the Amritsar Massacre. For 56 … [Read more…]