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One hundred years ago a momentous class struggle came to a head in colonised Ireland: the Dublin Lockout. This struggle not only pitted the working class against the capitalist exploiters and the repression of the capitalist state. It also pitted the vast masses of unskilled, and hitherto unorganised, workers against the bought-off aristocracy of labour … [Read more…]

When the politically more advanced sections of the Egyptian masses stood up to their Government, Army (the real power in Egypt) and police to occupy Tahrir Square and continually demonstrate, in the face of great personal risk, in order to get rid of US imperialism’s placeman, Hosni Mubarak, as President, they could hardly have expected … [Read more…]

A ceremony was held on 5 August in Bata, the second city of Equatorial Guinea, to award the first International Kim Jong Il Prize to the country’s head of state, Obiang Nguema Mbasogo. The International Kim Jong Il Prize was inaugurated on 24 December last year, with a view to awarding it to international statesmen … [Read more…]

A joyful and well attended barbecue and social was held in Saklatvala Hall on a hot Saturday in late July. The event is prepared annually by the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist Leninist) and marks two important occasions in the history of the working class and anti-imperialist struggle, both of which happened in the … [Read more…]

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Ghadar movement. By way of a tribute, Lalkar is dedicating this long article to the memory of its founders and participants – the forerunners of India’s struggle for liberation from British colonialism. What follows is an attempt to give a brief history of the Ghadar movement – … [Read more…]

Following the Second World War in which the major part in defeating fascism was played by the Soviet Union, its prestige rose, at that time, very high among workers in Europe. More people than ever were admiring the Soviet system, especially its publicly owned and free health service. The British ruling class, aware that the … [Read more…]

Whatever illusions remain in the Labour party’s commitment to propping up capitalist rule come rain or shine should have been shattered by “Red Ed ” Miliband’s latest foot-in-mouth U-turn on welfare reform. In truth, nobody could really claim lack of warning for the Labour leader’s shambolic retreat from his earlier “left” posturing. Every speech on … [Read more…]

Background We are in the midst of the deepest crisis of capitalism since the late 1920s. Like all capitalist crises, this is a crisis of overproduction, notwithstanding the fact that it had made itself most forcefully felt in the financial sphere. This is to be expected since the feverish speculation in stock markets, bonds, derivatives, … [Read more…]

This month’s news has featured yet more attempts by western imperialism to suppress its Chinese competitors, this time by slapping big import tariffs on the $27 billion worth of solar panels China sells to Europe each year. The EU’s trade commissioner, Karel De Gucht, announced on Tuesday 4 June that he was imposing an 11.8% … [Read more…]

With the success of the Syrian forces in sweeping the rebels out of Qusair, thereby simultaneously severing the terrorists’ lifeline to their fellow sectarians in the north east of Lebanon and re-enforcing the government’s links to those in Lebanon who offer neighbourly support, the West can no longer be left in any doubt how the … [Read more…]