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…]

The 2014 Indian parliamentary elections

On 16 May, the results of the 16th General Election in India were declared. These results were as much a surprise to the winning party as to the losers. The BJP (Bhartiya Janata Party) emerged from these elections with an absolute majority of seats in the lower house of the Indian parliament (the Lok Sabha), … [Read more…]

20th anniversary of the death of Comrade Kim Il Sung

Comrade Kim Il Sung, the great leader of the Korean people’s struggle for liberation from Japanese imperialism and the establishment and building of socialism passed away on 8 July 1994. As a result the progressive world lost one of its outstanding sons – a first-class Marxist intellectual, an outstanding military leader and a good and … [Read more…]

Poverty and inequality in Britain

The definitions of poverty are as plentiful as they are differing but whatever your definition, it is undeniable that many more people in Britain, a very wealthy leading imperialist nation, are poorer now than 30 years ago. It is also undeniable that the tiny percentage at the top of British society are very much wealthier … [Read more…]

Syria moves forward

Come election day in the UK, apologists for capitalism are keen to lament the “apathy” which keeps so many would-be electors at home, eager to read a penny lecture on democracy and civic responsibility to anyone so thoroughly sick of all the lies peddled by all the capitalist parties without exception that they understandably give … [Read more…]

Stopping a US inspired movement of counter-revolution. Tiananmen Square remembered

The hired harpies and lie-smiths of the mass media in the imperialist countries produced their, now usual, major ‘hate-China-fest’ to mark the 25 th anniversary of what they call ‘the Tiananmen Square Massacre.’ The Trotskyist/revisionist/Social-Democratic so-called ‘Left’ in Britain gleefully joined them in this attempt to consolidate a big lie in the minds of working … [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…]

Ukraine: imperialism bites off more than it can chew

For Washington, everything is going according to plan in Ukraine – except that nothing is going according to plan. Geeing up another “colour revolution” on the borders of Russia in the hope of pulling Ukraine into the EU/NATO bloc seemed to fit perfectly with the long term goals of isolating and weakening Russia and China, … [Read more…]

Report of Iris’s funeral

Iris’s funeral took place on 17 April at Mortlake Crematorium in West London. The service was filled to capacity, not only with Iris’s family and friends and Party comrades, but also with the most diverse of community leaders, as well as leaders and supporters of progressive political parties and broad organisations. The embassies of both … [Read more…]

End note: A Few Words On Ram Chandra

We return now to the case of Ram Chandra. To repeat, after the departure of other prominent Ghadarites for India and the wider eastern front, Ram Chandra became editor of Ghadar Weekly. He was a dominant, not to say a domineering, figure in the Ghadar Party during that period and no one dared question his … [Read more…]