Literature

On every question of importance, the CPB has ditched Marxism in favour of servility to the imperialist Labour party. Lalkar writers Subscribe to our  channel https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1193681371&color=%23ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=trueRead part 1 of this article here. ***** (Mis)understanding imperialism The British Road to Socialism wisely informs us that “The chief characteristics of imperialism, therefore, are monopolisation, colonial or – in countries that have won formal political independence – neo-colonial superexploitation, interimperialist rivalry and war.” VI Lenin defined the chief characteristics of capitalist economics in its monopolist, de...

Eclectic and utopian, the CPB’s programme is full of pious wishes but its authors don’t seem to have the first clue about the realities of the state or of class war. Lalkar writers Subscribe to our  channel Despite its yielding negative results for seven decades, the CPB continues to stick fast to its Road to Nowhere programme, holding ever more tightly to the utterly discredited shiboleth that Labour is the party of the working class and its electoral victory will one day usher in a new socialist dawn. https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1198027942&color=%23ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=trueRead part 1 of this article here.Read part 2 here. ***** Alternative economic and political strategy ...

By Caroline Elkins, Knopf, 2022, hardcover, 896 pp. MEB $37.50 Reviewed by John Gee DURING THE First Intifada in 1988, Israeli troops were reported to have tied Palestinians to the front of their vehicles to deter others from throwing rocks. Comparisons were quickly made to British practices during the 1936-39 Arab Revolt, when the previous occupier perched captive Palestinian Arabs on the hood of trucks or tied them to the front of trains as a precaution against ambushes and mines.  Most of the means of repression deployed against Palestinians by Israel were used previously by the British: deliberately wrecking the contents of homes during searches, home demolitions, selective and not so selective killings, imprisonment without trial and obtaining information ...

Book Review: Spare by Prince Harry — The message is lost The book is about Harry — his traumas but it ends up humanising the House of Windsor too By: Sadiq Shaban,    Spare is displayed during a special midnight opening event for the release of the book at the WHSmith bookstore, at Victoria Station in LondonImage Credit: AFP By all accounts, this is a dramatic book. A bombshell. The British royalty inspires awe not only in the UK but also around the world. And here is a prince willing to cook up a perfect storm. Spare is an account by an insider, one that starts with a bang — right from the book jacket: It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century — two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother’s coffin as the...