International Solidarity Barbecue 2014

On 26 July, at Saklatvala Hall in Southall, members and supporters of the CPGB-ML gathered to celebrate the ending of the Great Fatherland War in Korea and the storming of the Moncada Barracks in Cuba. Joining the festivities were representatives of the embassies of the DPRK, Cuba and China along with several members of the … [Read more…]

Ferguson Missouri – Imperialism at home

Around lunchtime on Saturday 9 August in the city of Ferguson, which is an overwhelmingly black suburb of St Louis, Missouri, two young black men are walking down a street when a police car pulls up. Here ends the reported events that all can agree on. From this point the accounts of what happened next … [Read more…]

The Continuing Revolution in Stalin-Era Soviet History

INTRODUCTION: At the invitation of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist), American academic and author of Khrushchev lied, GROVER FURR, addressed a packed meeting in Lucas Arms, Grays Inn Road, London, on Friday 20 June. In his contribution, lasting about 50 minutes, Grover exposed the lies concerning Soviet History, in particular Stalin, spread by … [Read more…]

Israeli fascism fails to defeat the brave Palestinian resistance

The kidnapping in June of three Israeli settlers was used as the excuse the Israeli state needed for launching operation “Brother’s Keeper” and then operation “Protective Edge“. In the days which followed the kidnapping, Israel went to war with the Palestinian resistance, first covertly, hidden under the pretext of searching for those responsible for the … [Read more…]

Islamic State: More dirty work from imperialism

The so-called Islamic State (IS), the terrorist army which came of age fighting for the imperialist subversion of Syria and has now swarmed across northern Iraq committing the vilest atrocities, is serving the interests of imperialism in two main ways. Firstly, as regards Syria, it is plainly to the advantage of imperialism that its proxy … [Read more…]

PLEASE GIVE GENEROUSLY FOR OUR NEW PRINTING PRESS

LALKAR and CPGB-ML launched a campaign to buy a printing press to replace the one that is very much on its last legs. Comrades have responded to this appeal and given generously: so far we have collected just over £18,000, but we need at least £12,000 more. We APPEAL to comrades, friends, readers and well-wishers … [Read more…]

Ukraine: the resistance soldiers on

Reports coming through from the south and east of Ukraine suggest that, despite the considerable material superiority of the Kiev junta’s military equipment, wild boasts that the resistance struggle is all-but “mopped up” reflect a good deal of wishful thinking on the part of the usurpers and their backers in the West. The resistance stands … [Read more…]

Warmongers 1914: A Little Bourgeois History

“…up to now it has been thought that……myth-building…. was only possible because printing had not yet been invented. ………on the contrary. The press and the telegraph, which spread their inventions over the whole earth in a second, fabricate more myths….in one day than could formerly be done in a century…..” Letter Karl Marx to Ludwig … [Read more…]

WORLD WAR I – 100th Anniversary: TIME FOR THE TRUTH

Historical background to World War 1 (Introduction by Ella Rule to a CPGB-ML meeting on 9 August 2013) Our purpose this evening is to mark the 100th anniversary of World War I by making sense of it so that we can learn its lesson and mobilise as necessary to avoid a repeat of what was, … [Read more…]

Fanning the flames of Islamophobia

In March this year, in the run up to the local government and European elections that were to take place in May, The Sunday Times of 2 March ran an article by Richard Kerbaj and Sian Griffiths about a letter ‘leaked’ to it that had allegedly been written by an Islamic fundamentalist setting out plans … [Read more…]