End note: The Contribution of Agnes Smedley

Agnes Smedley played a tremendous part in helping the Ghadarites in every way, especially in fighting against their deportation to India and certain death. When the Indians were accused by US intelligence officers of being German spies, she replied rightly: ” No – no more than Benjamin Franklin was a French spy”. She was arrested … [Read more…]

Syria: Imperialism prolongs a proxy war it cannot win

In the same week in April that Peter Clarke, former head of the Metropolitan Police’s counterterrorism unit, was appointed as witchfinder-general tasked with sniffing out and uprooting alleged “islamic radicalisation” in Birmingham’s schools, news broke that an eighteen year old Muslim student from Brighton, Abdullah Deghayes, had just got himself killed fighting against the government … [Read more…]

Syria: Damascus calls the West’s “humanitarian” bluff

Damascus facilitates Homs hostage release As the Syrian army continues to make steady headway in the effort to hem in and eradicate the remaining pockets of terrorist influence, Damascus is seizing the opportunity where possible to facilitate the release of those civilians effectively held hostage by those who falsely pose as their protectors. To this … [Read more…]

Thailand – rebellion of the rich

In the last edition of Lalkar we reported on the latest incarnation of a wealthy people’s rising, this time in Thailand, whose leaders, if they were honest, would proclaim to the world; “we are the one percent and we want more!” Although Thailand is a bourgeois democracy, with all the corruption and dishonesty that this … [Read more…]

J’accuse: Turkish lawyers confront Erdogan over war crimes

As the cornered rats infesting Syria, driven into an ever deeper hole by the patriotic forces, descend deeper into murderous internecine squabbling within their own ranks, the West is finding it ever harder to prevent a true and shameful record of the proxy war from swimming into clearer focus. One shining example of this is … [Read more…]

Ukraine: fascist coup

Since this article was written, the tide of violence has surged ever higher, culminating in the fascist coup the world is now witnessing. As we go to press the fascist coup engineered by the West in the Ukraine is now in full cry, with the ousted President Yanukovych the object of a manhunt, the governing … [Read more…]

The current rebellion in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Protest started on 4th of February in the industrial city of Tuzla. Workers of several privatised companies based in Tuzla organised a protest (without the help or support of trade-unions) demanding the cancellation of privatisations and against closing-down of the factories. They were joined by large number of people from the city and the region, … [Read more…]

Enquiry on Human Rights in the DPRK?

Anybody interested in the Korean Peninsula and following a bit the western media must of necessity have heard talk over the last few days about the Commission of Enquiry on Human Rights in the DPRK which was set up by a resolution of the UN Human Rights Council dated 21 March 2013. Published on 17 … [Read more…]