About us
Who are the Fifth Internationalists?
The League for the Fifth International is a revolutionary organisation. Our goal is to build a world party of socialist revolution, fighting across the world for an end to capitalism and for socialism. We base our programme – From Protest to Power – and our day to day policies on the works of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky, on the revolutionary documents of the first four congresses of the Third International and the Transitional Programme of the Fourth International published in 1938.
The working class has had four previous working class international parties. We are not the Fifth International – we are an international revolutionary tendency of groups fighting for it. The struggle against capitalism is an international struggle, as Marx wrote in 1848, the working class has no country. The fight against capitalism must be an international one, uniting socialists across the world in resistance to the system.
The League has sections in Austria, Britain, Czech Republic, Germany, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Sweden and the USA. We work with socialists in Russia to publish a bulletin. We have supporters in many other countries across the world.
If you are interested in joining the League please read our international programme From Protest to Power (2003)
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.Who are the Fifth Internationalists?
Wed, 23/09/2009 - 16:20What do the Fifth Internationalists fight for? Read more...
Why we need a Fifth International
Sat, 04/01/2003 - 23:00In the opening years of the twenty-first century, resistance to imperialism, war and corporate capitalism assumed a truly global scale.
Vast mobilisations against international financial institutions, continental counter-summits, Social Forums of scores of thousands, cross-border actions and joint days of action - all these have changed the shape of the class struggle. Read more...
Revolutionärin: Who we are and what we want
Sun, 07/03/2010 - 23:00The editorial of the first issue of Revolutionärin, the magazine of the Revolutionary Women's Collective in Austria. Read more...
First issue of Workers Power in Chinese
Mon, 08/02/2010 - 21:31In collaboration with Chinese socialists, the League has produced the first issue of Workers Power in Chinese. Read more...
Statement on the Sri Lanka 2009 Presidential Election
Socialist Party of Sri Lanka Thu, 04/02/2010 - 11:19Statement on the Sri Lankan Presidential election by the Socialist Party of Sri Lanka Read more...
A new section of Revolution has been founded in Nepal
Mon, 18/01/2010 - 17:47Revolution, the socialist youth organisation in political solidarity with the League for the Fifth International has established a new section in Nepal Read more...
Whichever candidate wins will be a threat to democracy, let us fight for socialism!
Socialist Party of Sri Lanka Tue, 12/01/2010 - 10:35Statement by the Socialist Party of Sri Lanka on the Presidential elections Read more...
The end of the decade and the struggles ahead
Simon Hardy Sat, 02/01/2010 - 12:36Simon Hardy reviews the last decade and looks forward to revolutionary upheavals in the coming years Read more...
Russian language bulletin of the League
Fri, 04/12/2009 - 17:14The League for the Fifth international has entered into collaboration with a Russian language Trotskyist bulletin called Movement Towards Socialism. Read more...
Workers Power US holds founding conference
Tue, 24/11/2009 - 23:51Workers Power USA (WPUSA), the sympathizing section of the L5I in the USA, held its founding conference in Chicago on 13th-15th November 2009. Read more...
The curent programme of the League for the Fifth International, published in 2003