Issue: November/December 2024
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Expanded aggression of the crazed Zionists and the response of the Resistance
October 7 marked the first anniversary of the Al-Aqsa Flood, the spectacular jail break by the Palestinian resistance, which electrified the entire Middle East, with ramifications far and wide. The Israeli Zionists, stunned by this operation, responded in the only way they know, that is, by... [Read more]
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The promise of BRICS
Since the organisation now known as BRICS was founded in 2009 it has evolved considerably under the pressure of the world crisis of imperialism. Founded as a group initially consisting of Brazil, Russia, India and the Peoples Republic of China (South Africa joined in 2010), it arose out of a... [Read more]
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Why aren’t they taxing the rich?
The Labour government proposes to try to close Britain’s fiscal deficit by a combination of raising taxes on the working class and middle class on the one hand, and cutting public services on the other. What is going to prove very painful for the working and middle class is expected to raise £40... [Read more]
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Project Ukraine unravels
Whilst all hell is breaking out across the Middle East, hogging most of the headlines, Nato’s proxy war against Russia is coming to an ever stickier end. Project Ukraine, instigated primarily by the US and Britain, had as its aim regime-change in Moscow, to be followed by the weakening and... [Read more]
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A political earthquake in Sri Lanka
“Marxist Anura Kumara Dissanayake has been sworn in as the new President of Sri Lanka. His election is a political earthquake as Sri Lankans have rejected entrenched parties and handed power to a non-elite for the first time” (Yudhajit Shankar Das, ‘Sri Lanka now delivers a political earthquake... [Read more]
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OBITUARY – Yahya Sinwar
By Scott Ritter, reproduced with thanksYahya Sinwar was killed fighting Israeli soldiers in the ruins of Gaza. His death will serve as an inspiration for Palestinians for years to come. If there is to be a free and independent Palestine, it will be because of the sacrifice made by Yahya Sinwar in... [Read more]
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OBITUARY – Hassan Nasrallah
The whole of progressive humanity is mourning the death of Hassan Nasrallah, a brilliant and intrepid fighter against imperialism, who led the organisation of which he was General Secretary – Hezbollah – as it stood indomitable and often alone in the Arab world in mounting armed resistance to... [Read more]
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All eyes on the ‘enemy within’ – adjustments to PREVENT in the wake of Al Aqsa Flood
“The state is a product and a manifestation of the irreconcilability of class antagonisms. The state arises where, when and insofar as class antagonism objectively cannot be reconciled. And, conversely, the existence of the state proves that the class antagonisms are irreconcilable” (V.I. Lenin,... [Read more]
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The role of Britain’s Labour government, and the workers’ necessary response
The ruling class wanted Labour in power to try to manage its crisis, knowing that it is better placed to wage war on workers at home and abroad.No one paying attention can have failed to notice how the steady undermining of the supposed ‘democratic freedoms’ enjoyed by workers in Britain – a... [Read more]
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Justice at the mercy of imperialist interests
So imagine you have been chosen as a juror to represent the democratic process in a UK court of law, but what you believe to be morally right, and what international courts have legally substantiated, is in direct contradiction with the legal system itself.Such was the case for a jury recently... [Read more]
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Greek dockworkers block ammunition shipment to Israel
On 17 October a group of dock workers and union members at the Port of Piraeus stopped a container filled with bullets bound for Israel from being loaded onto a vessel. The action, led by the ENEDEP union and supported by other groups, was a stand against arms shipments fuelling Israel’s war on... [Read more]
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OBITUARY- Comrade Sitaram Yechury
We at LALKAR are saddened to learn of the sad and premature demise of Comrade Sitaram Yechury who breathed his last on 12 September at the age of 72.General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), he left his mark on not just the CPM but also on the wider Indian political... [Read more]
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DPRK response to drones being flown into Pyongyang by the southern puppets
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]