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Posted by: John Phoenix 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 hours Particularly militant were the workers of Chicago whose militancy struck such terror into the hearts of the exploiters that the military were called out to try to suppress them.  On 3 May, at the McCormick Reaper Works, striking workers were fired on with the result that 6 were killed and many others wounded.  As a result a public protest meeting was called at short notice for the following day at an area of the city called the Haymarket. Although it was an entirely peaceful meeting, with a relatively modest attendance of only so...

Posted by: John Phoenix As the next General Election looms into view over a very dark horizon, the backroom boys and girls of the British bourgeoisie’s political parties, sit fashioning the various footballs to be used in staged games to put on a show for the voting public.  One of the biggest and seemingly most important balls to be kicked about if our media are correct, is immigration since it is only too easy to weaponise the lingering race prejudices, lurking in British society from the days when Britannia ruled the waves, to cast the blame for all the ills of capitalism at immigration’s door. But is it a problem in reality? We at Lalkar don’t believe immigration is the great problem that bourgeois politicians of all stripes would have us believe.  In fact, the...

Posted by: John Phoenix 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 place and why it evoked an unbefitting response from Guy Adams of the fascist-loving Daily Mail. Origins of the World Youth Festival The festival was originally named the World Festival of Youth and Students. The WFYS was founded in 1947, just after the Second World War, at a time when it was becoming clear to anyone who was interested that the imperialists – ruling elites of the ‘Collective West’ – were eager to take the helm from Nazi Germany and co...