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Ex-Yugoslavia

Aftermath of the Yugoslav War

Intensification of all the contradictions of imperialism War is politics continued by other (i.e., forcible) means.” This famous dictum of Clausewitz, one of the most profound writers on military questions, has received further confirmation from the latest imperialist war in the Balkans. This war started as a continuation of the imperialist peace, and the imperialist peace ending this war is in turn a continuation of the imperialist war, whose aim was, and remains, the securing of domination by imperialism of the entire area stretching from the Middle East to the shores of the Black and Caspian Seas, endowed as they are with fabulous mineral wealth and a vast network of oil pipelines. All talk about humanitarianism was just hocus pocus, meant to distract the gullible. The...

The Media coverage of NATO’s war on Yugoslavia — and the response of the ‘Left’

2Jul

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Ex-Yugoslavia

The Media coverage of NATO’s war on Yugoslavia — and the response of the ‘Left’

by David Ayrton The aim of this article is to show the reader the reactionary nature of the reporting on the war, and the way in which the ‘Left’ has proved to be incapable of charting a truly independent course from what is, essentially, the propaganda machine of the British capitalist class. With very few honourable exceptions, the ‘Left’ repeated chunks of the propaganda that the CIA and MI6 had fed through the various press agencies and briefings, on behalf of the imperialist bourgeoisie. Among the few taking a thoroughly principled stand was Arthur Scargill, General Secretary of the SLP, who was fast off the mark on Wednesday 24 th March in declaring that the SLP “condemned the unlawful and immoral bombing of Yugoslavia” for “Neither NATO, Britain or the ...

2Jul

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France

France in flames

While the battle over pension/retirement rights rumbles on in France with no sign of protesting workers becoming exhausted, as Macron was perhaps hoping for, the French police have again underlined their anti-worker, anti-poor, anti-immigrant reputation that they have justly earned throughout the yellow vest fuel price battles and various industrial and educational battles plus the current war on France’s streets waged against the masses by them on behalf of the French ruling class. A 17 year old child, named only as Nahel, was shot at point-blank range on 27 June after allegedly failing to obey police officers who had told him to pull over in the west Paris suburb of Nanterre. The media are reporting that this boy was driving without a licence but even the state prose...

Silk Mill Lockout 2023 – No Communists Allowed

2Jul

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Politics, United Kingdom

Silk Mill Lockout 2023 – No Communists Allowed

After handing out hundreds of their leaflets to everyone at a Rally in Derby on 17 June to commemorate the 190th anniversary of a strike of Silk Mill workers in the area, members of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) were told they were not welcome by the very same rally organiser, who apparently welcomes “all and sundry”. Previously the CPGB-ML had applied in good time to have a stall at the event but shortly before it took place the party was informed it could not have one as there were none left to be booked. The political decision made by the CPB organisers to refuse the CPGB-ML a stall was petty, sectarian and totally anti working class. What were they afraid of? Would a genuine Marxist Leninist narrative outshine their tired and worn out s...

2Jul

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USA

1914-2014: Imperialism means war

Posted by: John Phoenix 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 prompted me to republish it in the current issue. Whereas the 1914-18 war was an inter-imperialist industrial-scale slaughter for the redivision of the world between two imperialist coalitions, the conflict in Ukraine is Neo-Nazi Nato’s proxy war, using Ukrainians as cannon fodder, against Russia, aimed at dismembering Russia, looting its vast resources and exploiting its highly-skilled, educated and cultured population. The real socialists, such as the...

2Jul

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Health, United Kingdom

An NHS nurse speaks out

Posted by: John Phoenix A myth was perpetrated in the late 19th century that continues to this day. A new political party, the Labour Party (LP) was born to represent the interests and needs of the urban working class, but on analysis, when has the Labour Party ever truly fulfilled that role? Reaching power in 1945, at the end of WW2, it was Clement Attlee’s government that gave rise to the National Health Service (NHS) along with the welfare state but what was the real motive? The NHS was designed to appease the working classes and crush any ideas of socialist rebellion at a time when the socialist USSR was standing tall in the world following its victory over fascism. The same government, under the direction of Ernest Bevin, assisted in the formation of the North Atl...

2Jul

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United Kingdom

Obituary: Comrade Tongogara

LALKAR is sad to announce the death of Comrade Tongogara who breathed his last on 11 May this year. Born Danny Morrell on 6 February 1942, he adopted the name Tongogara after the great Zimbabwean fighter Josiah Tongogara who fought for the liberation of Zimbabwe from the clutches of the racist white minority regime of Rhodesia. He lived all his life in the North London area of Tottenham, devoting himself to various campaigns for national liberation of the oppressed peoples – from Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mozambique, Angola and Guinea Bissau to the Irish struggle for self-determination and the reunification of Ireland forcibly partitioned with its Six northern counties occupied by British imperialism. He participated in countless demonstrations and pickets against racial...

Human rights in the UK? What human rights?

2Jul

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Human Rights, United Kingdom

Human rights in the UK? What human rights?

The Public Order Act (POA) 2023 is another extreme limitation of, and general attack on, the civil liberties of protesters who want to stay within the legally acceptable rules while expressing their displeasure over any aspect of government policy or who are trying to fight against a bellicose hostile employer. The truth that has not yet sunk into the psyche of much of even the advanced sections of the British working class is that trying to obey the rules invented by the class enemy that you are essentially finding yourself up against is akin to entering a boxing ring against an opponent with both hands tied behind your back. If you should move your hands to either protect yourself or, heavens forbid, to strike back, the cry of foul goes up from the massed ranks of your opp...

Thames Water scandal – is the party drawing to its close?

2Jul

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United Kingdom

Thames Water scandal – is the party drawing to its close?

As we go to press it has been announced that Sarah Bentley, the CEO of Thames Water, is resigning on the basis that the company is no longer financially viable and The Times is reporting that government ministers are drawing up contingency plans for the company’s collapse. It seems that next year average water bills across the board are likely to be 40% higher in order to raise the funds to clear up the mess that the privatised water utilities have got the system into. Long-term mismanagement The only question is: why wasn’t something done sooner? The mismanagement of the water utilities by privateers even led Jonathan Ford of the Financial Times on 10 September 2017 to write an article entitled: ‘Water privatisation looks little more than an organi...

2Jul

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Russia, Ukraine

Ukraine update

With Kiev smarting from the loss of Artemovsk to Russian forces, the long anticipated counteroffensive by Ukraine began on 5 June. In the first few days Ukrainian forces launched attacks all along the front line and there are reports of towns being taken, lost and taken again, but to date there have been no significant inroads into Russia’s core echelon defences. Doubts are multiplying across the collective West about Kiev’s ability to deliver a decisive blow against Russia or even to keep the pot boiling sufficiently to avoid an outright rout of Ukrainian forces. The problem for Kiev is that every day that passed, delaying the grand opening of the fabled offensive, gave Moscow another day to further degrade Kiev’s reserves, hobbling the offensive before a shot was fired. Ru...