Since the 45 per cent “yes” vote in the independence referendum, the SNP’s membership has nearly quadrupled to 92,000, making it the biggest party in Scotland by far. Read more...

The elections of 25 January in Greece represent a historic moment in Europe. Read more...

A snap general election in Greece looks set to end in victory for radical left wing party Syriza, ending a six-year monopoly of pro-austerity governments across Europe. Read more...

Sweden was once seen as the country of stable Social Democratic governments, but those days are long gone. Read more...

The 7 January attack on the offices of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, in which 12 people were killed, must be condemned without equivocation. Read more...

Ukraine's parliament has approved a programme of economic shock therapy described by an MP from the ruling coalition as amounting to “genocide”. Read more...

The League for the Fifth International today received this statement from Borotba. Read more...

When talking about Europe, bourgeois politicians never tire of pointing out that the crisis is not yet over. Read more...

An interview with M, a member of Borotba

Q: You have been in Donetsk recently and you are in close contact with militants there. How are things developing there? Read more...

As Britain approaches its most unpredictable election in many decades, Dave Stockton surveys the state of the economy, the labour movement and the far left Read more...

Strikes by the train drivers' union, GDL and the airline pilots' union, Cockpit, have spurred the Grand Coalition government's SPD Secretary of Labour, Andrea Nahles, to new reactionary levels. Read more...

Podemos, la expresión de lo que se ha denominado "la nueva política" en España, acaba de celebrar su primera Asamblea ciudadana; la apertura de un largo proceso de un mes de duración para decidir sobr Read more...

Britain’s public sector unions launched a coordinated strike on 10 July to break the pay freeze. Read more...

The anti-fascist resistance in Ukraine is debating what its goals and methods should be. Dave Stockton offers a critique of the Manifesto Read more...

The restoration of capitalism after the collapse of the USSR posed the questions - what kind of capitalist state was the new Russia, and what was its role in the imperialist system. Read more...

Eleanor Marx: A Life
Rachel Holmes, Bloomsbury, 2014
ISBN 9780747583844
£21.99 Read more...

The lost story of a strike that shook London and helped launch the modern labour movement

Silvertown
John Tully, Monthly Review Press/Lawrence & Wishart, 2014
ISBN 9781907103995
£15.00 Read more...

There is renewed debate about rank and file trade unionism among sections of the far left at the moment. Read more...

Understanding the Ukrainian national question in the context of an inter-imperialist conflict is crucial to seeing through the deceptions of imperialism – east and west. Read more...

The crisis in Ukraine has divided the international left and produced the deepest international crisis in Europe in 15 years. Read more...

The Left Party (Die Linke) in Germany was founded in 2005 as a fusion of the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS), the successor party to the former ruling Stalinist party of the German Democratic Repu Read more...

During the downfall of the USSR and the “actually existing socialism” of eastern European states, the Parti communiste français (PCF) underwent a major rethink of its old pro-Moscow Stalinism, what it Read more...

Negotiations to form a government are underway after parliamentary elections held on 26 October delivered an overwhelming majority for pro-EU parties. Read more...

Podemos has become the new darling of the left, claiming to be “doing politics differently”, but after its first conference Christian Gebhardt asks if it can live up to the hype Read more...

Лига за Пятый Интернационал приняла участие в конференции Сопротивления, состоявшейся в Крыму 6 и 7 июля 2014. Read more...

On 5 September, six months of fighting between the ultra-nationalist regime in Kiev and the militias of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics was brought to an end by a ceasefire signed in Minsk, Read more...

The French President, François Hollande, is trying to become the Tony Blair or Gerhardt Schröder of a country that has always tended to reject attempts to impose the neoliberal “reform” policies for Read more...

Sweden, once a Social Democratic stronghold, is still sometimes held up as an example for its welfare state and supposed “middle way between capitalism and socialism”. Read more...

The result of the referendum on independence in Scotland, 45 percent voting Yes for independence, 55 percent voting No, showed a clear majority against independence. Read more...