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Statement from Independent Donetsk Miners’ Trade Union

We reproduce this Open Letter from the Independent Donetsk Miners' Union as a gesture of solidarity with their struggle and that of the anti-fascist resistance in Ukraine

Brother miners, Read more...

10 July strike: one day is not enough

More than one million workers across England, Wales and Northern Ireland struck on Thursday 10 July against the government freeze on pay and the 20% decline in real wages since the Tory-LibDem coaliti Read more...

Ukraine: can Donbas workers turn civil war into class war?

In Ukraine, ‘war is peace’. Read more...

Podemos - A model for the European left?

Spain bucked the rightward trend in May’s European Parliament elections by electing five MEPs from the new “Podemos” (“We Can”) formation. Read more...

The Disgrace of the Maidan Leftists

EU Parliamentary elections: Europe polarised

Gunpoint democracy: bullets and ballots cannot crush resistance

On 25 May 2014, while voters queued at polling stations in Kyiv to choose between representatives of the country’s rival oligarchs, hundreds of doctors and patients took shelter in the basement of Sla Read more...

No to a neoliberal, imperialist and militarist EU - for a united socialist states of Europe

Real power does not reside in parliament in any capitalist state, even in the most democratic bourgeois society. Read more...

Counter-revolution and Resistance in Ukraine

об осуждении фашистских погромов в Одессе

Данное заявление предложено Лигой за Пятый Интернационал, которая призывает рядовых граждан поставить под ней свою подпись. Просим Вас распространять его среди своих сторонников и товарищей. Read more...

Statement: condemn the fascist pogrom in Odessa

This is a statement drafted by the L5I which we invite organisations and individuals to sign. Please circulate it to your members and supporters. Read more...

Репрессии в Юго-Восточной Украине

Repression in Eastern and Southern Ukraine

The crisis in Eastern Ukraine has a very different character from the myth presented in the “western” media. Read more...

On the crisis situation in Eastern and Southern Ukraine

The mass movement in Eastern Ukraine: an eyewitness report

In the German media, the protest movement in the south and east of Ukraine is presented only as disturbances manipulated by Moscow as an excuse for the Russian aggressor to put more pressure on the st Read more...

Dollar bills and F15s: how the West plans to win Ukraine

An austerity package, for the “prevention of financial catastrophe”, passed by the Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, on March 29, threatens to deliver the people of Ukraine firmly into the gri Read more...

Between imperialisms: Ukraine, Crimea and the Tatar Question

On 16 March, the population of Crimea voted overwhelmingly for federation with Russia. Read more...

Ukraine: A review of Russian public opinion

The League has received this survey of Russian opinion from a correspondent in Russia. Read more...

Kyiv: regime rules under fascist whip

Support Ukraine’s workers' self defence against the Kyiv government and its fascist allies.

The Ukrainian working class has no reason to regret the downfall of the corrupt Viktor Yanukovich or his ministers and police chiefs. Read more...

Counter-revolution in Ukraine: mobilise against reactionary coup and fascist militias

The overthrow of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych by the Euromaidan movement marks a major strategic advance for the imperialists of the EU, led by Germany. Read more...

Berlin: School students strike to support refugees

Refugees are welcome - no one is illegal ! Read more...

Bosnia: The beginning of a new working class revolution?

Power struggle in Ukraine

The power struggle in Ukraine appears to be entering a decisive phase. The situation of the Yanukovich government is becoming precarious. Read more...

Vienna: 8,000 blockade Fascist celebrations

Every year, the right wing Freedom Party in Austria organises a celebration for the members of the traditionalist, that is right wing, “student fraternities”. Read more...

The Left Party, DIE LINKE, in Germany

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...

The French Parti de Gauche: Old Wine in a New Bottle

The Parti de gauche (PdG), founded by Jean-Luc Mélenchon in 2008, aims to unite all the forces to the left of the social-democratic Socialist Party. Read more...

Ukraine: neither Berlin nor Moscow, but workers’ internationalism

Over the last month, thousands of people have occupied Independence Square in the Ukrainian capital Kiev. Read more...

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