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“Marxist Anura Kumara Dissanayake has been sworn in as the new President of Sri Lanka. His election is a political earthquake as Sri Lankans have rejected entrenched parties and handed power to a non-elite for the first time” (Yudhajit Shankar Das, ‘Sri Lanka now delivers a political earthquake in India’s neighbourhood’, India Today, 23 September … [Read more…]

By Scott Ritter, reproduced with thanks Yahya Sinwar was killed fighting Israeli soldiers in the ruins of Gaza. His death will serve as an inspiration for Palestinians for years to come. If there is to be a free and independent Palestine, it will be because of the sacrifice made by Yahya Sinwar in the cause … [Read more…]

The whole of progressive humanity is mourning the death of Hassan Nasrallah, a brilliant and intrepid fighter against imperialism, who led the organisation of which he was General Secretary – Hezbollah – as it stood indomitable and often alone in the Arab world in mounting armed resistance to Israel, the racist colonial state imposed and … [Read more…]

“The state is a product and a manifestation of the irreconcilability of class antagonisms. The state arises where, when and insofar as class antagonism objectively cannot be reconciled. And, conversely, the existence of the state proves that the class antagonisms are irreconcilable” (V.I. Lenin, The State and Revolution), Workers within the state machinery, particularly schools, … [Read more…]

The ruling class wanted Labour in power to try to manage its crisis, knowing that it is better placed to wage war on workers at home and abroad. No one paying attention can have failed to notice how the steady undermining of the supposed ‘democratic freedoms’ enjoyed by workers in Britain – a process that … [Read more…]

So imagine you have been chosen as a juror to represent the democratic process in a UK court of law, but what you believe to be morally right, and what international courts have legally substantiated, is in direct contradiction with the legal system itself. Such was the case for a jury recently when two defendants … [Read more…]

On 17 October a group of dock workers and union members at the Port of Piraeus stopped a container filled with bullets bound for Israel from being loaded onto a vessel. The action, led by the ENEDEP union and supported by other groups, was a stand against arms shipments fuelling Israel’s war on Gaza. Dockworkers … [Read more…]

We at LALKAR are saddened to learn of the sad and premature demise of Comrade Sitaram Yechury who breathed his last on 12 September at the age of 72. General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), he left his mark on not just the CPM but also on the wider Indian political … [Read more…]

Crucial Statement of DPRK Foreign Ministry Pyongyang, October 11 (KCNA) — The Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on Friday issued the following crucial statement “The trigger for defending sovereignty and security will be pulled up without hesitation“: The ROK is crossing the red line in its provocation against the Democratic People’s … [Read more…]

War crimes Between 7 October 2023 and 15 August 2024, the Zionist murder squads – the Israeli armed forces (IDF) – have slaughtered 40,634 Palestinians, of whom 40,005 were in Gaza.  11,445 of the victims (30%) were women, and 16,251 children. 92,000 have been injured, some of them very badly.  10,000 lie under the rubble, … [Read more…]