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Chilean voters revive the ghost of Pinochet

23May

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Chile

Chilean voters revive the ghost of Pinochet

Posted by: John Phoenix ‘The rich people in my country were always foreigners – let them fly off to Miami with their aunties. I don’t want my country divided – let them take their tune somewhere far, far away.’ These defiant words by Chile’s Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda were set to music by his compatriot Victor Jara early in the fateful year of 1973. A few months later, Jara – a communist – was tortured and killed days after the military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet. Neruda, a fellow communist, also died – quite possibly poisoned – while in hospital in the aftermath of the coup. In December 2025 the Chilean electorate chose a professed admirer of Pinochet, José Antonio Kast, as the country’s new president. In the first round of the election the ...

23May

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United Kingdom

Preparing Britain for world war

Posted by: John Phoenix Lots of offensive talk about defence Lalkar articles have always been presented with the clear intention of providing readers with an alternative, correct analysis to the detritus consumed through mainstream media. If we were to use a food analogy, our articles would be an organic, nutritious, well-balanced meal compared with a McDonald’s takeaway. The former feeds the mind and invigorates the spirit; the latter produces lethargy and depression. None of that has changed. What has shifted, dear reader, is you. In the past you may have read our analysis with some hesitancy, suspicion or even incredulity. However, recent events have hardened your already deepening distrust of the murky figures who run our society and manage the state and have opened y...

Chagos, Iran and the new era of naked imperialism

23May

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Iran

Chagos, Iran and the new era of naked imperialism

Posted by: John Phoenix On 18 February 2026, the day before his first ‘Board of Peace’ meeting in Washington, Trump announced – by Truth Social Post – that he no longer supports the Chagos Island deal made between Mauritius and Britain. By providing yet more evidence that the Anglo-American imperialists are deal incapable, the issue of the cyclopean US military base, located in British territory, at the centre of the Indian Ocean cuts to the heart of imperial history, inter-imperial power relations, and the degree to which they are unravelling. What are the Chagos islands – and why do they matter? The Dutch colonised Mauritius and turned it into a sugar cane plantation in the 17th century (naming it after their prince, Maurice of Orange). The French later took possession ...

Continued murderous Nazi oppression in Gaza

23May

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Gaza, Holocaust, Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, USA, West Bank, ZIO-NAZI

Continued murderous Nazi oppression in Gaza

Posted by: John Phoenix All the excitement over the Epstein revelations seems to have fairly and squarely diverted attention from the situation in Gaza and the broader Middle East where Israeli expansionism and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians has been proceeding remorselessly, despite the fact that in theory a ceasefire is in place in Gaza. If it is in fact true that Epstein was a Mossad agent, as is being suggested in numerous quarters, then he must be laughing in his grave (assuming that is where he is) at how fantastically the diversionary tactic has worked out for Israel. While the kill rate in Gaza, that stood at an average of 100 Palestinians a day from the start of the Israeli offensive until the ceasefire took effect, has dropped to a mere 32 or so a week, it is sti...

IRAN – IT’S WAR ! Operation True Promise 4 is under way

23May

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Iran, USA

IRAN – IT’S WAR ! Operation True Promise 4 is under way

Posted by: John Phoenix STOP PRESS The threatened US/Israeli attack against Iran finally began on 28 February, just as LALKAR was prepared to go to press. Explosions took place in central, northern and eastern Tehran, as well as in Isfahan, Sahand, Karaj, Qom, Kermanshah, Khomein, Dezful, Kharg Island and Minab. In Minab, two primary schools full of little girls were bombed, leaving over 140 dead. Iranian President, the 86-year old Ali Hosseini Khamenei has been killed, along with members of his family. US President Trump boasted: “The United States military is undertaking a massive and ongoing operation to prevent this very wicked, radical dictatorship from threatening America and our core national security interests. We are going to destroy their missi...

OBITUARY – Ayatollah Hussein Ali Khamenei

23May

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Iran

OBITUARY – Ayatollah Hussein Ali Khamenei

Posted by: John Phoenix The leader who defined modern Iran Reproduced from Grandmasters of Geopolitics, with thanks The life of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — from a student in the holy city of Mashhad to the untimely end of his 36-year reign — is a story interwoven with the history of modern Iran. As the world reacts to his death in the US-Israeli strikes, we look back at the moments that defined his legacy. 👇 1️. The birth of a revolutionary: standing against the Shah Long before he wore the mantle of Supreme Leader, Khamenei was a young firebrand. Born in 1939 into a modest religious family, he was an effective orator who joined the movement to overthrow the Shah. In the 1960s and 70s, he was arrested six times by the Shah’s secret police, SAVAK, enduring to...

Stalin’s Library by Geoffrey Roberts – a resumé and review – Part 8

23May

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Russia

Stalin’s Library by Geoffrey Roberts – a resumé and review – Part 8

Posted by: John Phoenix Science and society Under Zhdanov’s leadership, the campaign against Western capitalist cultural influences was initiated in the summer of 1946. Stalin was determined to expand Soviet influence in eastern and central Europe as a barrier against future German aggression against the Soviet Union. Instead of understanding Soviet concerns after such a costly war, Anglo-American imperialism launched the Cold War, with Churchill declaring in his notorious Fulton speech that an “iron curtain” had “descended on Europe from the Baltic to the Adriatic. Behind the screen, all the ‘ancient states’ of central and eastern Europe were succumbing to communist totalitarian control” [Note that Churchill borrowed the expression ‘Iron Curtain’ as a prop...

23May

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Literature

Obituary – Michael Parenti

Posted by: John Phoenix Editors’ note: We are pleased to print this obituary by Carlos Martinez of Michael Parenti, an outstanding critic of capitalism and imperialism, who was instrumental in opening the eyes of huge numbers of people to the gross iniquities of the capitalist system – an awakening that is crucial if the masses are to be mobilised to overthrow capitalism and establish socialism. The only cautionary note that we would add is that Parenti was not as consistent as he should have been on the role of the Communist Party in suppressing counter-revolution, and he criticised Stalin for killing too many people (no evidence given) and for fomenting a cult of the personality (which Stalin actually opposed). Apart from that he is deserving of all the praise that Cde M...

Obituary – the late and unlamented Eddy Shah

23May

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Literature

Obituary – the late and unlamented Eddy Shah

Posted by: John Phoenix The news that newspaper proprietor Eddy Shah had died at the age of 81 did not make headline news, notwithstanding the obituaries sections. Indeed, the name Eddy Shah would today only have resonated with people of a certain age, given that his coming to prominence in his field occurred over forty years ago. But Eddy Shah, a local newspaper proprietor who owned a group of free papers in Warrington, Cheshire brought about a revolution in the production of newspapers which not only was ruthlessly exploited by Rupert Murdoch, culminating in the Wapping Dispute of 1986, but was subsequently adopted by every newspaper in the country, including the Morning Star. It was these changes in newspaper production that opened the door to the launch of new newsp...

Cuba and hope: the material expression of human resolve

23May

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Cuba

Cuba and hope: the material expression of human resolve

Posted by: John Phoenix The solidarity of friendly nations is helping the blockaded island to keep the lights on, but Western workers need to play their part. Hope is not a vapour that lingers when everything else has failed, nor a substitute for strategy. It is the force that makes strategy possible – the impulse that compels the first step, sustains movement through adversity, and draws others into common purpose. Properly harnessed, hope is not passive; it is active, generative and enduring. It reveals the deeper currents of human resolve – and today, it is embodied in the people of Cuba. After a 67-year bipartisan history of callously toying with the lives of Cuba’s people, the US economic blockade of the socialist island was ratcheted up in January 2026 with a new an...