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The International Transport Federation (ITF) has issued a joint statement with Nautilus International which reflects no credit on either union. Nautilus general secretary Mark Dickinson, referencing the detention of the British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero in the Strait of Hormuz, assures us that “Our thoughts are with the seafarers being held, and with their families”. … [Read more…]

Mass shootings are nothing new in the United States of America. They focus on children, black and brown skinned people, religious groups, etc., and reflect the violent intolerance, bigotry and racism that is so deeply ingrained in the American psyche. One of the latest mass murders occurred at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, … [Read more…]

BCFS, a Texan outsourcing outfit, describes itself as “a global system of health and human services non-profit organizations with locations and programs throughout the US” and worldwide. Its website claims expertise in delivering ‘humanitarian aid’, medical and healthcare and empowering people with disabilities. Not mentioned, however, is the fact that it also equips and runs … [Read more…]

On Monday 5 August US President Trump signed an executive order placing an embargo on the government of Venezuela, in effect placing an embargo on the whole of Venezuela. After the failed attempted coup of Juan Guaidó earlier this year, which was backed by the US, Venezuela now joins the likes of Cuba, Iran, Korea, … [Read more…]

The grandly titled Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is very clear about its own industrial strategy, which consists in the main of hiving off everything in sight to outsourcing parasites like Aramark and ISS and then watching from the sidelines as workers are screwed on poverty wages. In July, things came to … [Read more…]

While the various ‘remain in Europe’ bourgeois parties, groups and celebrities along with their tame media outlets are busy telling all and sundry that we will all starve as our society crashes around our ears if Brexit is finally achieved, a very real plague of malnutrition is walking British streets right now. That the benefit … [Read more…]

PART TWO – The Great October Socialist Revolution The Baku Commune In the central committee of the Bolshevik party the right opportunist position (expressed by Kamenev and Zinoviev) attempted sabotage of the uprising in Petrograd. In the Caucasus, the Mensheviks played the leading role in opposing the transformation of the bourgeois democratic revolution into the … [Read more…]

To mark the bicentenary of the Peterloo massacre, LALKAR is producing over the rest of this year’s issues, a most enlightening presentation on the subject of Peterloo in its historical perspective given by Kathy Sharp to the Stalin Society in London in July 2019. PART I To understand the events of 16 August 1819 on … [Read more…]

Comrade Bridget Bell, a dedicated fighter for the working class lost her struggle against cancer on 8 August 2019 in her adopted home of Barnsley. Bridget came to prominence in the 1984/5 miners’ strike as a leading member of North Staffordshire Miners’ Wives Action Group and later served as the secretary of the national strike … [Read more…]

The following is the text of an interview by George Galloway (GG) of Dr Ranjeet Brar (RB) which was aired on the RT programme ‘Sputnik’ in August 2019. GG After many weeks of demonstrations everywhere in Hong Kong, it seems that that the effective seizure of Hong Kong’s airport, one of the world’s busiest, has … [Read more…]