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On the anniversary of Jina Mahsa Amini's death: A year that changed Iran

On 16 September 2022, the Iranian Kurdish woman Jina Mahsa Amini died as a result of injuries inflicted on her by the so-called morality police during her arrest and in detention through brutal mistre Read more...

Turkey: the fight goes on!

In recent months, particularly in recent weeks, the country has been politicised and tensions within the population have been increasing. Read more...

阿拉伯左派:为斯大林主义付出代价

2011年的阿拉伯之春以其英雄的行为激励了全世界的数百万人,然而,现在革命停滞不前。本着声援这些运动和无产阶级国际主义的精神,马库斯・哈拉比(Marcus Halaby)批判地分析了这些国家的极左翼,尤其是叙利亚左翼。 Read more...

Turkey: Elections could see the end of Erdogan

Presidential and parliamentary elections are due in Turkey on 14 May. They could prove decisive for the fate of the Erdogan regime. Read more...

Israel-Palestine: Break the wave of repression!

AS PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu was being wined and dined by the British government, both the brutality of the apartheid state against the Palestinians and mass opposition on the streets by Israe Read more...

Israel: rising repression, rising resistance

ON 30 DECEMBER, the Israeli parliament voted into office a government headed by Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu. Read more...

Iran: The regime threatens to drown the revolution in blood

For months, the Islamist regime has been trying to drown in blood the mass protests and uprisings that have shaken the country since the murder of Jina Mahsa Amini. Read more...

Stop Turkey's Assault on Rojava - Solidarity with Kurdish Resistance !

On the night of 19-20 November, Turkish armed forces started a full scale bombardment of Rojava, the Kurdish region of Syria. Read more...

伊朗革命开始了——如何才能胜利?

伊朗革命开始了——如何才能胜利?
马丁·苏查内克 2022年11月4日 08:57

伊朗革命已经到了临界点。几个星期以来,成千上万的人,可能总共数百万人走上街头。在库尔德地区,总罢工使公共生活陷入瘫痪。大学是抵抗运动的大本营,罢工也蔓延到全国各地。 Read more...

Iran: Crisis, capitalism and the rule of the Mullahs

The depth of the current movement in Iran can only be properly understood if we look at the social and economic developments of recent years and the regime's connection to capitalism.

Stagnation Read more...

Iran: "Initially it was emotional, now it is political"

As the movement against the Ayatollahs' regime spread across Iran, the League for the Fifth International interviewed Ali Rezaei, an Iranian socialist. Read more...

The Iranian revolution has begun - how can it win?

The Iranian revolution has reached a critical point. For weeks, thousands, probably millions in total, have been taking to the streets. Read more...

Women, Life, Freedom - Death to Dictatorship!

We mourn the death of Jina Mahsa Amini. Mahsa was a young Kurdish woman who died in the custody of Iran’s morality police. She was not the first, many a woman before her died silently. Read more...

Zan Zendegi Azadi - Women! Life! Freedom!

What more could a woman want?
Freedom to dress the way I want
Freedom to believe what I want
Freedom to be who I want Read more...

10 years of Rojava: achievements and aberrations

In July 2012, Kurdish armed forces took political control in the regions of Kobanê, Afrin and al-Hasakah in northern Syria. Read more...

Israel doubles down on its atrocities in Palestine

On May 11, an Israeli "Defence” Force sniper shot the famous Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in the head. Read more...

Turkey’s economy on the brink

In 2021, Turkish workers had first-hand experience of how worthless their pay packets were in comparison to the profits of factory owners and the ill-gotten gains of the élite of President Recep Tayyi Read more...

Palestine: Key tasks for the resistance and the solidarity movement

The mass response of the Palestinian people to the Israeli settler and police provocations in Sheikh Jarrah and at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the subsequent bombardment of Gaza and the political victory of t Read more...

Statement on the Israeli - Hamas Ceasefire

The ceasefire agreed between Israel and Hamas represents a victory for the Third Palestinian Intifada in all its components – Hamas’s unquelled rocket bombardment, the heroic resistance of the populat Read more...

Victory to the Palestinian Intifada!

The Western media’s propaganda, that the relentless bombing of Gaza is a defensive war in response to Hamas rockets fired into Israel, is a brazen lie. Read more...

لشبيبة حي الشيخ جراح كل التضامن! كل التضامن مع المقاومة الفلسطينية!

لشبيبة حي الشيخ جراح كل التضامن! كل التضامن مع المقاومة الفلسطينية! Read more...

Halt Israeli aggression in Gaza and Jerusalem - for a third Intifada

Once again, Israeli warplanes are bombing the Gaza Strip, the world’s most densely populated area, packed with 1.5 million civilians, including more than one million refugees. Read more...

Turkey: Solidarity with the HDP!

The ban on the only left-wing opposition party in the Turkish parliament, the HDP (Halkların Demokratik Partisi, Peoples' Democratic Party), was rejected once again by the Constitutional Court on 31 M Read more...

Lebanon: The Revolution has begun

The explosion of 2750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate in the port of Beirut on August 4, which killed 154 people and injured over 5,000, left the city in devastation. Read more...

Israel's annexation policy: For the socialist one-state solution!

Israel's Netanyahu-Gantz government, formed at the end of April and consisting of the two major right-wing parties, Likud and "Blue-White", announced it would formally complete the annexation of the J Read more...

Iran: Lift the sanctions!

Iran now ranks fourth in the world for total number of deaths from coronavirus. The death toll currently stands at over 2,700, with each day bringing hundreds of new victims. Read more...

Iraq: al-Sadr prepares bloody counter-revolution

Iraq’s revolutionary democratic protest movement, which started on October 1, 2019, is facing its biggest test yet, as interim Prime Minister Mohammad Allawi is set to announce his government, designe Read more...

Defeat the Trump Plan to Destroy Palestine

Syria: threatening all-out war?

Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people are fleeing what is left of their homes in Syria. Read more...

Iran: From vigils to protests

When government officials belatedly admitted that Iranian missiles were responsible for downing a Ukrainian airliner taking off from Tehran, university students who had gathered to mourn the victims t Read more...

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