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• Socialist DPRK makes progress on all fronts

  [Issue: May/June 2026]

  By Keith BennettSuccesses on the home frontIn the recent period, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has made marked progress across the fields of economic construction and improving the people’s living standards, as well as in national defence and diplomacy and external... [Read more]

• Preparing Britain for world war

  [Issue: March/April 2026]

  Lots of offensive talk about defenceLalkar articles have always been presented with the clear intention of providing readers with an alternative, correct analysis to the detritus consumed through mainstream media. If we were to use a food analogy, our articles would be an organic, nutritious,... [Read more]

• Agent Sonya – the heroine housewife

  [Issue: March/April 2026]

  by Vikki HarperSpeech delivered at CPGB-ML Southall seminar on 28 Feb. 2026It’s Munich, November 1923 and Germany is in deep crisis. Defeat in the First World War, the humiliation of the Treaty of Versailles and an economy on the verge of collapse gripped by hyperinflation and mass unemployment –... [Read more]

• Stand with Venezuela against the USA’s criminal regime-change attempt

  [Issue: January/February 2026]

  Millions of Venezuelans are now under arms and, with the slogan ‘Loyal always, traitors never!’ on their lips, stand ready to defend themselves and their country, whether or not their rightful president is returned to them. For all the savage threats and theatrical proclamations of the Trump... [Read more]

• Remembering China’s role in the global anti-fascist war

  [Issue: September/October 2025]

  By Carlos MartinezThe second of September 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, bringing an end to World War 2.China’s role in the war, and indeed the very existence of the Pacific Theatre, has to a significant degree been written out of history.... [Read more]

• Russia and the DPRK’s military cooperation is anti-imperialism in action

  [Issue: May/June 2025]

  After months of gnashing of teeth and screaming by the imperialist press over mere rumours of DPRK military involvement in the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, the governments of the DRPK and Russia have calmly confirmed that indeed, north Korean troops have been operating in the Kursk region in... [Read more]

• From containment to confrontation, from cold to hot: the US drive to war on China

  [Issue: May/June 2025]

  The US-led ‘cold’ war against China is manifestly failing in its objectives of suppressing China’s rise and weakening its global influence.China’s economy continues to grow steadily. In purchasing power parity (PPP) terms, it is by now the largest in the world. Its mobilisation of extraordinary... [Read more]

• OBITUARY – Harpal Singh Brar 1939-2025

  [Issue: March/April 2025]

  Harpal Singh Brar died at 10.10am Indian time (4.40am UK time) on 25 January 2025, at 85 years of age. He was at the home of his nephew Manpreet Singh Badal, in Chandigarh, India. His close comrade and leader of the CPGB-ML Ella Rule, as well as his daughter Joti, and sons Ranjeet and Carlos were... [Read more]

• TikTok and the threat to cultural hegemony

  [Issue: March/April 2025]

  A recent article in The Times, entitled ‘Why TikTok ‘makes people more eager to visit China’, worries that “people who spend hours scrolling on TikTok are more likely to want to visit China — possibly because the platform censors material that portrays the country in a negative light”. The... [Read more]

• The fall of Syria

  [Issue: January/February 2025]

  On 8 December it was announced that President Bashar Al Assad had resigned from the office he had held since the year 2000 and had left the country. A statement released later stated that he was in exile in the Russian Federation and this has been subsequently confirmed by President Putin.... [Read more]

• DPRK response to drones being flown into Pyongyang by the southern puppets

  [Issue: November/December 2024]

  Crucial Statement of DPRK Foreign MinistryPyongyang, October 11 (KCNA) — The Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on Friday issued the following crucial statement “The trigger for defending sovereignty and security will be pulled up without hesitation“:The ROK is crossing... [Read more]

• Russia and the DPRK: Traditions of friendship and cooperation through the years

  [Issue: July/August 2024]

  Article by Vladimir Putin in Rodong Sinmun newspaper, June 18, 2024On the eve of my state visit to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, I would like to address the Korean and foreign audience of the Rodong Sinmun newspaper to share my thoughts on the prospects for partnership between our... [Read more]

• Why the Daily Mail doxed the British Delegation to the World Youth Festival 2024

  [Issue: May/June 2024]

  Nato’s power, the US’s hegemony and what remains of the British empire – all of which are bundled together – are in irreversible decline. The Multipolar World is coming into being and there is no room for imperialists in it. This is the context in which the World Youth Festival 2024 in Sochi took... [Read more]

• BOOK REVIEW: Thoughts on Stalin – the history and critique of a black legend by Domenico Losurdo – Part 3

  [Issue: May/June 2024]

  Stalin is an obvious candidate for the most vitriolic abuse for under his leadership private property and the market suffered unprecedented hammer blows. Under his stewardship, socialism spread to eastern and central Europe, China, the DPRK and Vietnam, taking this vast mass, along with the USSR,... [Read more]

• Athens declaration: The world is entering a new era of anti-imperialist struggle

  [Issue: January/February 2024]

  The following declaration was agreed by parties that attended the fifth international conference of the World Anti-imperialist Platform, held in Athens on 18 November 2023.*****Understanding:That we are emerging from the period of deep reaction that followed the capitalist restoration in the... [Read more]

• How the USA practises so-called ‘coercive diplomacy’ – a new name for an old imperialist game

  [Issue: September/October 2023]

  We sum up below the evidence presented in a report by our comrades in the Communist Party of China, to which a few of comments of our own have been added.*****Diplomacy is the art, science and means by which nations, groups or individuals conduct their affairs, in ways to safeguard their... [Read more]

• Statement of the Anti-Imperialist Platform: How the KKE uses Marxist terminology to cover its retreat from Marxism

  [Issue: September/October 2023]

  The party of the Greek revolution has objectively transformed itself into an agent of imperialism, both nationally and internationally (1).On the basis of a Marxist analysis of the rapidly escalating imperialist war drive, anti-imperialists of the communist movement came together last year to... [Read more]

• Oppenheimer the film, a review

  [Issue: September/October 2023]

  This film, directed and written by Christopher Nolan, currently on release and the subject of much publicity and hype, is well worth seeing on many levels.  It is a fascinating story, filmed with great artistry.  It is acknowledged to be based on the book American Prometheus by Kai Bird (2005).... [Read more]

• 1914-2014: Imperialism means war

  [Issue: July/August 2023]

  This article is based on the presentation I made to an international seminar in Brussels on the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War. Subsequently it was published in Lalkar in the Nov-Dec 2014 issue. Its increasing relevance today in consequence of the conflict in Ukraine has... [Read more]

• Greatest triumph in our history!

  [Issue: May/June 2023]

  An open letter to the President of the Russian Federation and Supreme Commander-in-Chief V.V.Putin from Gennady Zyuganov, Chairman of the Communist Party of the Russian FederationApril 13, 2023Esteemed Vladimir Vladimirovich,For all of us May 9 is a sacred date. Victory over German Nazism became... [Read more]