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Report by Harpal Brar This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Cuban revolution, which overthrew the tyrannical Batista regime and set the Cuban people on the road to independence, freedom, dignity, prosperity and socialism. To coincide with the 40th anniversary celebrations, a British workers’ delegations, led by Comrade Frank Cave, Vice-President of the National Union … [Read more…]

 SLP Political Education SchoolThe Socialist Labour Party East and West Midlands Regions held a Party School over the weekend of 13-14 February 1999 to introduce participants to the principles of Marxism. There were sessions on the question of `What is capitalism?’, `What is socialism?’, `Imperialism today’, `Social-democracy and the labour aristocracy’ and Ireland. Each session … [Read more…]

Freedom for the KurdsBy David Morgan The kidnapping by Turkey of Abdullah Ocalan, leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), has provoked the justified outrage of Kurds throughout the world. The underhand methods used and the images of his maltreatment that were released by Turkish television illustrate the true barbarism of the Ankara regime for all … [Read more…]

By Jo Cottenier and Jean Pestieau, Workers’ Party of BelgiumOn November 26, over a thousand workers and trade unionists held a demonstration in front the Law Courts of Nivelles (a small city 25 km from Brussels), Belgium, against the holding of a virtually unprecedented trial . Thirteen union representatives and workers were before the court … [Read more…]

On 7 January 1999 the Colombian government is at last commencing peace negotiations with the Colombian guerrilla forces of FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia) and ELN (National Liberation Army). It has had to be dragged kicking and screaming to the negotiating table, but with an estimated two-thirds of the country under guerrilla control, there … [Read more…]

Hillingdon Hospital StrikersOn 25th December, an enthusiastic band of supporters took Christmas greetings to the Picket Line outside Hillingdon Hospital. Harpal Brar brought solidarity greetings to the strikers and presented them with another £300 which had been collected for these wonderful workers.When asked to sum up the achievements of 1998, Malkiat Bilkhu spoke of the … [Read more…]

This article, written by Comrade Dipankar Bhattacharya, is reproduced, with thanks, from the December 1998 issue ofLiberation, the organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist).A little more than six months ago, the United Front was in power. Today it is irretrievably lost in oblivion. The tryst with power of this front of more than … [Read more…]

Genocidal War against the Iraqi PeopleFor over a year US imperialism has been seeking the flimsiest of pretexts for attacking Iraq. In February 1998, it had assembled the largest air and naval force since the 1991 Gulf War and was poised to strike. The deal brokered by the UN General Secretary, Kofi Annan, with the … [Read more…]

IWA(GB) strongly condemns the unprovoked bombing of the sovereign state of Iraq by US and British imperialism. This is international terrorism not only against Iraq, but also against the people of the whole world. This time US and British imperialism even cast away the fig leaf of UN Security Council authorisation. This is a blatant … [Read more…]

 On 19th December, the Southall CSLP were host to the launch of a new book by SLP NEC member Harpal Brar. SLP members from across London heard discussion about the new work at their annual social, from Steve Cowan and other SLP comrades. Steve Cowan, a former ILEA councillor, stressed that the title of the … [Read more…]