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A violent and potentially devastating conflict has broken out in Azerbaijan. The artillery and shelling which has rocked the area of Nagorno-Karabakh, a former autonomous oblast inside the old Azerbaijani Soviet Republic, has brought Turkey, guns blazing, into the territory of the former Soviet Union, with President Erdogan proclaiming that Turkey and Azerbaijan constitute “one … [Read more…]

Julian Assange’s trial has brought to life Franz Kafka’s famous dystopian novel The Trial. To quote the opening sentence: “Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K, for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning.” The following information is to a large extent a presentation in abbreviated form of information … [Read more…]

Back in the summer of 2011, the country’s biggest care home provider, Southern Cross, collapsed in a welter of debt. This outfit, entrusted with the provision of care to 31,000 elderly and vulnerable people, instead concentrated single-pointedly on the pursuit of speculative profits. An article published in LALKAR at the time explained how the provision … [Read more…]

Kim Jong Un, supreme leader of the Party, state and armed forces of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, delivered a speech at the military parade held in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Workers’ Party of Korea. This is the gist of what he had to say: Dear comrades, The … [Read more…]

Buy Harpal Brar’s “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics’ This long-awaited volume comes at a most critical time for the world progressive movement, and whoever sincerely desires competently to serve the masses in their hour of need must surely hasten to read it. It contains a wealth of information about China, the history of its revolution and … [Read more…]

Akram Al-Waara, 5 November 2020 We reproduce here extracts from an article in Middle East Eye, with thanks. These are the facts to which people are expected to turn a blind eye for fear of being branded ‘anti-semitic’ for opposing Israeli policies. Being anti-Israel is not equivalent to being anti-Jewish. It is just as culpable … [Read more…]

At some point during late September 2020 a 19-year old woman who was collecting animal fodder with her mother in the village of Hathras, Uttar Pradesh, was grabbed and dragged by the scarf (dupatta) around her neck into an adjoining field by four men and was there brutally gang-raped and beaten. Her treatment was so … [Read more…]

Statement issued by the Secretariat of the VKPB Central Committee July 24, 2020 The Soviet and international communist and workers’ movement has suffered a heavy and irreparable loss. On July 24, 2020, Nina Alexandrovna Andreeva, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, passed away in the city of Leningrad, … [Read more…]

The stench of corruption around the multi-million contracts awarded by the government in response to the Covid pandemic has become so bad that even The Times has felt obliged to sound a warning note, fearful of the public backlash that too naked a display of greed, nepotism and outright fraud might trigger. It is getting … [Read more…]

On 9 August Belarus went to the polls to decide which out of five candidates should be chosen as president. The announced winner was the incumbent, Alexander Lukashenko, with 80% of the vote. His nearest rival, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, attracted just 10% of the vote, whilst the other three trailed far behind. Opposition activists accused former … [Read more…]