Uncategorized

The liberal media erupted in outrage when President Donald Trump’s new administration announced a funding freeze on the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), with some claiming it would result in thousands of government job losses and warnings of global starvation and outbreaks of disease. On the surface, this freeze was portrayed as an … [Read more…]

A recent article in The Times, entitled ‘Why TikTok ‘makes people more eager to visit China’, worries that “people who spend hours scrolling on TikTok are more likely to want to visit China — possibly because the platform censors material that portrays the country in a negative light”. The article’s author is particularly concerned that … [Read more…]

In honour of International Women’s Day 1925, LALKAR continues with its series on important women of the revolutionary movement, this year Sylvia Pankhurst Sylvia Pankhurst was born in 1882 into a very progressive Manchester family. One great grandfather had been at Peterloo and nearly got himself killed.  One grandfather was active in the Chartist movement.  … [Read more…]

At long last, US imperialism and its surrogate in the Middle East, Israel, have, at least temporarily, achieved their long-held dream of overthrowing the Syrian government headed by Bashar al-Assad.  In the latest instalment of the conflict between Syria and the US-Israel combine, events unfolded in a way, and with a speed, no-one had expected. … [Read more…]

Yoon Suk Yeol’s declaration of martial law on 3 December 2024 was destined to come into conflict with the opposition Democratic Party which secured control of the 300-seat South Korean legislature in the election that took place last April.  Since then the Democratic Party has blocked legislation and held up the national budget. Government-affiliated agencies … [Read more…]

On 8 December it was announced that President Bashar Al Assad had resigned from the office he had held since the year 2000 and had left the country. A statement released later stated that he was in exile in the Russian Federation and this has been subsequently confirmed by President Putin. Assad’s resignation brought about … [Read more…]

Georgia’s people are resisting the Euro-Atlantic plot to turn their country into another base for attacking Russia. On 28 November, following months of increasingly hostile action by European and US imperialists in the country, Georgian prime minister Irakli Kobakhidze announced the suspension of his country’s European Union accession process, which would be put on hold … [Read more…]

Calin Georgescu, to the shock of imperialism,  quite unexpectedly won the first round of the Romanian presidential that took place on 24 November 2024, and was heading for victory in the race with a comfortable lead in the second, and final, round over the second-place candidate, Elena Lasconi. Immediately after the first round, Georgescu was … [Read more…]

There has been serious unrest in Mozambique since the last presidential election was decisively won last October by Daniel Chapo of the ruling party FRELIMO.  FRELIMO has in fact won every election since its liberation struggle against Portuguese colonialism ended in victory 32 years ago.  Bourgeois media everywhere are taking up the opposition’s claims of … [Read more…]

Oreshnik On 20 November, Ukraine fired six long range US-made ATACM missiles deep into Russia. Russia’s Ministry of Defence said Ukraine had struck Russia’s Bryansk region with six missiles, and that air defence systems intercepted five and damaged one. On the 21 November Ukraine launched two long range British-made Storm Shadow missiles deep into Russia. … [Read more…]