Vo Nguyen Giap: 1911-2013

NOVANEWS Military genius and communist hero On 4 October 2013, in a military hospital in Hanoi, where he had lived for the last few years of his life, General Vo Nguyen Giap, Vietnamese patriotic hero, […]

Once more on the US fiscal cliff

NOVANEWS LALKARONLINE On 17 October the US public debt hit the $17 trillion mark for the first time – $53,765 for each US citizen;$751,940 per family; $148,747 for each US taxpayer! This is 107% of […]

Cyber spies: once more on the Snowden affair

NOVANEWS LALKARONLINE The revelations earlier this year by Edward Snowden re the Prism programme and the spying on the whole world by the US government through its National Security Agency (NSA), see Lalkar July/August 2013 editionhttp://www.lalkar.org/issues/contents/jul2013/snowden.html, have […]

Hands off Somalia!

NOVANEWS A comment on the September attack upon Nairobi’s prestigious Westgate Mall September witnessed a bloody attack by between ten and fifteen Al-Shabaab militants upon Nairobi’s prestigious Westgate Mall, a partly Israeli-owned complex which offers […]

Grangemouth Fiasco

NOVANEWS Unite abdicates leadership The capitulation by Unite to the so-called “survival programme” bulldozed through at Grangemouth by Ineos is a black day for workers everywhere. The terms of the surrender are galling to read: […]

The media war on Syria

NOVANEWS LALKARONLINE How honest anti-war activists can end up serving the wrong side The correspondence below was written by a CPGB-ML member in response to an article that appeared on MediaLens.org titled ‘Structural inclinations – […]

Royal Mail sell-off

NOVANEWS Postal workers and tax payers shafted The eventual complete privatisation of Royal Mail (with only the post offices separated and remaining in public hands) passed with barely a whimper let alone anything resembling a […]