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27 July this year marked the 60th anniversary of the end of the Korean War which resulted in the victory of the Korean people over the US imperialist-led forces. This day is, quite correctly, marked in the DPRK as the day of victory in the Fatherland Liberation War. This 27 July, being the diamond anniversary … [Read more…]

September 9 marks the 65th anniversary of the founding of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in 1948. Although of course Korea was freed of its Japanese occupation on 15 August 1945 at the end of the second world war, US imperialism seized military control of the country south of the 38th parallel. The US … [Read more…]

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…]

Comrade Jasbir’s untimely death at the age of only 49 has been a great loss not only to her family but also to the cause of women’s emancipation in Britain. She was a devotedly active member of the Indian Workers’ Association (GB), in which capacity she worked tirelessly both for more women to become involved … [Read more…]

27 July 2013 marks the 60th anniversary of the Korean people’s great victory in their Fatherland Liberation War against US-led imperialism. The great success of the Korean people and their Soviet and, above all, Chinese allies in fighting US imperialism and the combined forces of 15 countries, including British imperialism, to a standstill is rightly … [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…]