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• 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]

• Stalin’s Library by Geoffrey Roberts – a resumé and review – Part 4

  [Issue: September/October 2025]

  Roberts calculates that the size of Stalin’s library at some 25,000 books, pamphlets and periodicals.In Stalin’s collection, “Apart from the works of Marx, Engels, Kautsky and Luxemburg, there are few foreign translations in Stalin’s collection. Notable exceptions include Russian translations of... [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]

• 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]

• An English worker at the heart of the origins of May Day – the story of Samuel Fielden

  [Issue: May/June 2024]

  May Day, the day of annual celebration of the international working class movement, originated in the United States where it was particularly associated with the struggle for the working day to be reduced to 8 hoursParticularly militant were the workers of Chicago whose militancy struck such... [Read more]

• Colonel Africa – by Ilona Yegiazarova

  [Issue: March/April 2024]

  The following article is taken largely verbatim from an article written by Ilona Yegiazarova in the Moskovskaya Pravda of 18 September 2020. Some material irrelevant for the present purposes has been omitted and a few additional facts have been added. It recounts the life of a Spanish-born KGB... [Read more]

• Cuban health workers vow to face down the genocidal US blockade

  [Issue: March/April 2024]

  Solidarity aims must move on from the charitable aid mentality and work for the destruction of the imperialist system.Much is presented in Western corporate media regarding the parlous state of Cuba – its economy, food shortages, the flow of skilled, especially young workers overseas, shortages... [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]

• Peru’s fragile socialist government ousted by a soft coup

  [Issue: January/February 2023]

  For decades Peru, like many other Latin American nations, has been trying to become a socialist country. It seemed that fulfilment of this aim may finally be at hand when, in July, 2021, Perú Libre (Free Peru), led by Pedro Castillo, a modest, unassuming school teacher from the high Andes,... [Read more]

• How British Imperialism Crushed the Greek Revolution – Part 2

  [Issue: September/October 2022]

  (By Nina Kosta and George Korkovelos)The British in GreeceEnglish historian Elizabeth Barker writes that during WW2, the British government “continued to behave as if Greece was its fiefdom“. The only military aid that Britain gave to Greece was Italian loot from North Africa, while at the same... [Read more]

• 37 refugees dead, hundreds injured in Spanish-Moroccan police massacre at Melilla border

  [Issue: July/August 2022]

  Alejandro López(Excerpts from an article taken from the WSWS website, with thanks)26 June 2022Spain’s Socialist Party (PSOE)-Podemos government, working with Moroccan police acting as the European Union’s border guards, have carried out a barbaric massacre at the borders of the Spanish enclave of... [Read more]

• Hero of the working class – Kim Philby

  [Issue: March/April 2022]

  Kim Philby is a famous traitor – to British imperialism.  He spent the best years of his life working in the interests of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics against those who sought to undermine it and finish it off, mainly Nazi Germany and British imperialism.  His most important work took... [Read more]

• Julian Assange loses extradition appeal

  [Issue: January/February 2022]

  On Friday 10th December, the High Court, in a hearing that lasted barely 10 minutes, reached judgment that the appeal against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s extradition to the US would be allowed, explicitly on the basis that the US has provided assurances that he will be safe in the care of... [Read more]

• Abimael Guzman – death of a great revolutionary leader

  [Issue: November/December 2021]

  On 11 September 2021 the death was announced of 86-year old Comrade Abimael Guzman, otherwise known as Chairman Gonzalo, in a Peruvian prison. He had been incarcerated for nearly 30 years, his crime being to have led a major insurgency in Peru which had come close to overthrowing the puppet... [Read more]

• Julian Assange extradition trial – shameful martyrisation continues

  [Issue: November/December 2020]

  Julian Assange’s trial has brought to life Franz Kafka’s famous dystopian novel The Trial. To quote the opening sentence: “Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K, for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning.”The following information is to a large extent a... [Read more]

• Critique of the linguistic theory of Noam Chomsky

  [Issue: March/April 2020]

  Noam Chomsky, the American professor of linguistics, is well known in progressive circles for the courageous stand he took against US imperialism on the question of the Vietnam war, and which he continues to take on the question of peace in the Middle East. Because he sets a fine example of... [Read more]

• Peterloo in its historical perspective

  [Issue: September/October 2019]

  To mark the bicentenary of the Peterloo massacre, LALKAR is producing over the rest of this year’s issues, a most enlightening presentation on the subject of Peterloo in its historical perspective given by Kathy Sharp to the Stalin Society in London in July 2019. PART ITo understand the events of... [Read more]

• Free Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange

  [Issue: May/June 2019]

  The renegade President of Ecuador, Lenin Moreno, has ordered the eviction of Julian Assange from his country’s embassy in London and a team of police was invited into the embassy to effect the eviction. Mr Assange was immediately arrested on 11 April on a charge of jumping bail, which is likely... [Read more]

• The experience of the Communist International and its relevance today

  [Issue: May/June 2019]

  To mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Comintern, it was decided to reproduce a speech made by Comrade Harpal Brar at the annual International Communist Seminar in Brussels in 2005. Unfortunately, no copy could be found as the webpage on which the Workers’ Party of Belgium had... [Read more]