Wednesday, July 1FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA, PALESTINE WILL BE FREE

Articles

Operation Gladio: How CIA/Nato carried out terrorist attacks in Italy
C.I.A, Italy, NATO

Operation Gladio: How CIA/Nato carried out terrorist attacks in Italy

Posted by: John Phoenix Despite these shocking facts having been exposed 30 years ago, and involving every European Nato government, they remain largely unknown outside of Italy. Desperate to prevent the advance of communism, the Italian state after WW2 adopted a strategy of fuelling tension through violent provocations. These were part of a Europe-wide CIA-run operation which aimed to scare the public away from the communists and to manufacture a demand for tighter security measures by the state. The image above shows a 1964 military parade that was the pretext for stationing large numbers of troops in Rome, but a projected coup was aborted at the last minute. In 1990, Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti was forced to reveal the existence of a vast underground paramilitary n...
Caracas congress: Make 2025 a milestone in the fight against fascism
USA, Venezuela

Caracas congress: Make 2025 a milestone in the fight against fascism

Posted by: John Phoenix Delegates also express firm support for Venezuela’s constitutionally elected popular president, Nicolás Maduro Moros. World Anti-Fascist Congress The government in Caracas has been the prime mover behind the newly launched World Anti-Fascist Congress. The movement aims to have branches in every country of the world, and to be active in all social spheres. The following declaration was issued by delegates at the Anti-Fascist International’s conference, which was held in Caracas earlier this month. ***** In the framework of the World Festival of the Anti-Fascist International, held in the city of Caracas on 9, 10 and 11 January 2025, more than 2,000 representatives of social movements, political parties, cultural and popular organisations, intellect...
Twenty years after his death, Gary Webb’s truth is still dangerous
Uncategorized

Twenty years after his death, Gary Webb’s truth is still dangerous

Posted by: John Phoenix Systematic media lies destroyed the career of an honest journalist who committed the heinous crime of telling the truth. The truth about the activities of the CIA and other western intelligence agencies is often stranger and more horrifying than the darkest works of dystopian fiction. Despite the wealth of irrefutable evidence of covert experimentation on human subjects throughout the modern era, corporate media and politicians still stick to the line that this is all just the wild imaginings of the dissatisfied and uneducated. This article is reproduced from Scheer Post with thanks. ***** Twenty years ago, on 10 December 2004, former San Jose Mercury News investigative reporter Gary Webb died by apparent suicide, following a stre...
Will Mexico be blackmailed in order to destroy Cuba with blackouts?
Mexico

Will Mexico be blackmailed in order to destroy Cuba with blackouts?

Posted by: John Phoenix By José Manzaneda, Co-ordinator of Cubainformación Over the last few years Mexico has come to the aid of the Cuban people on several occasions.  A month ago it sent 400,000 barrels of oil to alleviate the acute crisis of electricity supply on the island. Investments In no time political and media pressure from the establishment was brought to bear.  An editorial in the daily newspaper, the Wall Street Journal, which has the largest circulation in the US, condemned this provision of oil to Cuba and launched a clear threat that this was “another reason why businesses are dubious about Mexico being a good place to invest”.  The major Mexican media, all controlled by the right wing, disseminate these tidings of business panic say...
Stalin’s Library by Geoffrey Roberts – a resumé and review
Lithuania, Russia

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

Posted by: John Phoenix Over the next few issues of LALKAR we shall be publishing this review of Geoffrey Roberts’ book on Stalin’s library.  Although as a bourgeois academic Roberts is obliged to take an anti-communist approach and to repeat may of the usual slanders against Stalin, such as in the sentence; “this book explores the intellectual life and biography of one of history’s bloodiest dictators, Joseph Stalin”  (Introduction, p.2), nevertheless, as an honest historian, he has been able to shed a bright light on Stalin as a person, showcasing not only his genius as a political leader but also his untiring and meticulous devotion to the cause of proletarian revolution and the well-being of the toiling masses.. PART 1 By the time of his death, Stalin’s libr...
Report from the International Symposium on Employment and Social Security in Xinjiang, Urumqi
China

Report from the International Symposium on Employment and Social Security in Xinjiang, Urumqi

Posted by: John Phoenix 16 December 2024 – Ella Rule The International Symposium on Employment and Social Security in Xinjiang took place in Urumqi on 16 December 2024. It was attended by many distinguished international and diplomatic guests, including representatives of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Institute, and diplomats from  Azerbaijan, Gabon, Guinea, Indonesia, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Libya, Moldova, Niger, Pakistan (ambassador), Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Togo, Uzbekistan and Yemen (ambassador), and a large number of international guests from many different countries, including many who represented organisations in different countries concerned with the promotio...
A brief history of British Trotskyism
Politics, United Kingdom

A brief history of British Trotskyism

Posted by: John Phoenix We reproduce an article published in Lalkar in 1986 in order to enlighten our readers about the history of the various Trotskyite counter-revolutionary outfits, some of whom have changed their names, the latest incarnation being the so-called Revolutionary Communist Party, which is being promoted by the ruling circles in opposition to the CPGB-ML. With news of the expulsion from the Labour Party of members of the so-called Militant Tendency on an almost regular basis, it is timely to look at just what the history of Trotskyism has been in Britain since 1932.  It was then that Reg Groves was expelled from the Communist Party of Great Britain and went off to form the ‘Balham Group’, Britain’s first Trotskyist organisation. After about five years...
Albert Einstein’s address at the dinner sponsored in his honour by the Jewish Council for Russian War Relief, on October 25, 1942, at the Hotel Commodore, New York
Europe

Albert Einstein’s address at the dinner sponsored in his honour by the Jewish Council for Russian War Relief, on October 25, 1942, at the Hotel Commodore, New York

Posted by: John Phoenix As friends of human progress, as Americans, and not least as Jews, we have the very strongest reasons for giving our utmost to the struggle of the Russian people for freedom. Let us be clear at the outset. For many years our press has misled us about the achievements of the Russian people and their government. But today, everybody knows that Russia has worked and is working for the advancement of science with the same zeal as our own country. And by what she has achieved in this war, she has made it no less plain that she has done great things in all industrial and technical fields. From rudimentary beginnings, the tempo of her development in the last 25 years has been tremendous that it has scarcely a parallel in history. It would be false to conside...
Trump elected as US president
USA

Trump elected as US president

Posted by: John Phoenix To prevent Donald Trump being re-elected, the US establishment threw everything at him – from two assassination attempts to dozens of court cases, vile abuse, RussiaGate, and much else.  But Trump won through despite the veritable onslaught against him in the mainstream media, as well as social media, in which ‘left’ liberals and conservatives joined hands in a frenzied anti-Trump alliance. Trump won because he kept his connection with his electoral base. Trump’s victory is, at least for the present, a defeat for the globalist regime-change and forever-war establishment. Economic factors played a big role – the cost of living, the crises in housing and in health care, for example.  Added to those are the questions of drug abuse, suicid...
Ukraine: imperialism stumbles deeper into direct conflict with Russia
Russia, Ukraine

Ukraine: imperialism stumbles deeper into direct conflict with Russia

Posted by: John Phoenix Oreshnik On 20 November, Ukraine fired six long range US-made ATACM missiles deep into Russia. Russia’s Ministry of Defence said Ukraine had struck Russia’s Bryansk region with six missiles, and that air defence systems intercepted five and damaged one. On the 21 November Ukraine launched two long range British-made Storm Shadow missiles deep into Russia. Two Storm Shadow missiles, six HIMARS rockets, and 67 unmanned aerial vehicles were neutralised by Russian air defence systems. In both acts of war, it was Kiev’s finger on the trigger but Washington that called the shots, cheered on by British imperialism in the unsavoury person of the Labour prime minister Keir Starmer. For months the White House had been agonising over whether or not to ‘...