Issue: September/October 2002
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Tribute to Comrade Surinder Kumar Taggar
Comrade Surinder Kumar Taggar died suddenly on 4 August 2002. His death was a shock not only to his family but also to the Shaheed Udham Singh Welfare Trust (Birmingham), the Indian Workers Association (Great Britain) and hundreds of friends in Birmingham and Sandwell. Comrade Surinder Kumar was... [Read more]
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Sanctions and the threatened war against Iraq
The following letter by Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark has been sent to all members of the UN Security Council, with copies to the UN General Assembly and Senator Biden of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Please circulate. July 29, 2002 Dear Ambassador, Any remaining hope... [Read more]
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Palestine: Resistance continues to defy Israeli repression
Defying all Israeli repression, the Palestinian liberation fighters continue their heroic fight against the Zionist occupation regime. On 16 July, Palestinian fighters, disguised as Israeli soldiers, killed 7 Israelis and wounded 20 others when they smashed a bus at the West Bank settlement of... [Read more]
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An Attack of Nerves
It’s both comical and instructive to observe how even those who are specifically paid to stick up for capitalism and say the last rites over socialism just can’t keep off the subject of Marxism for long. It seems that it’s dead but it won’t lie down. Listen to this professor from Oxford sending... [Read more]
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‘Questions to Lalkar’
In response to an article by Giles Shorter on ‘The threat of War between India and Pakistan’ in the July/August issue, Comrade Taimur of the MKP (Workers and Peasants Party of Pakistan) sent us his criticisms of it. We are pleased to publish Comrade Taimur’s observations in this issue and would... [Read more]
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Oppose US Imperialist War against Iraq!
US and British imperialism have been waging a ceaseless war of aggression against Iraq even though the Gulf war ended over eleven years ago. Iraq has been subjected to the illegal no-fly zones over its northern and southern territory; cruel UN-sponsored sanctions which have claimed the lives of... [Read more]
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Sanctions and the threatened war against Iraq
The following letter by Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark has been sent to all members of the UN Security Council, with copies to the UN General Assembly and Senator Biden of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Please circulate. July 29, 2002 Dear Ambassador, Any remaining hope... [Read more]
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Palestine: Resistance continues to defy Israeli repression
Defying all Israeli repression, the Palestinian liberation fighters continue their heroic fight against the Zionist occupation regime. On 16 July, Palestinian fighters, disguised as Israeli soldiers, killed 7 Israelis and wounded 20 others when they smashed a bus at the West Bank settlement of... [Read more]
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‘Questions to Lalkar’
In response to an article by Giles Shorter on ‘The threat of War between India and Pakistan’ in the July/August issue, Comrade Taimur of the MKP (Workers and Peasants Party of Pakistan) sent us his criticisms of it. We are pleased to publish Comrade Taimur’s observations in this issue and would... [Read more]
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Economic Crisis of Imperialism on a World Scale
“Commerce is at a standstill, the markets are glutted, products accumulate, as multitudinous as they are unsaleable, hard cash disappears, credit vanishes, factories are closed, the mass of the workers are in want of the means of subsistence because they have produced too much of the means of... [Read more]
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Western media’s coverage of Congo invasion: in the footsteps of western interests?
In 1997, Laurent Désiré Kabila, a long time Congolese guerilla fighter against Mobutu’s dictatorial and kleptocratic regime, took advantage of the geopolitical change in the region, when Congo’s neighbours in the east and Angola decided to do away with Mobutu who was harbouring rebel groups... [Read more]