Following the aborted suicide bombing of a US flight in December 2009, the USA, claiming that the plot originated in Yemen, has been escalating its intervention into that country. US military 'aid' to Yemen has gone from $0 to $70M dollars, and that is set to double this year. Read more...

With the world's eyes focused on Haiti, where a natural disaster has been grossly magnified by years of imperialist-inflicted poverty, it is fitting to look at another state where US interference threatens to unleash social catastrophe - Yemen. Read more...

امیدهای زیادی در داخل ایران وجود دارد که روزهای پایانی رژیم فرا رسیده است. اعتراضات خیابانی با خشونت پلیس و سربازان اسلامی روبرو می شود. اما در بین حاکمان داخل حکومت بر سر شیوه و مسیر ادامه اختلاف وجود دارد. Read more...

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There is hope in Iran that the days of the regime are numbered. On the streets the protests are met with violence from the police and the Islamist militias. But in the government the ruling powers are split - what is the way forward? Read more...

A year after Israel bombarded Gaza, Kam Kumar looks at the continuing siege of Palestinians. Read more...

اعتراضات دانشجویان ایران با واکنش بسیار خشن پلیس و سپاه پاسداران مواجه گشت. Read more...

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Student protests in Iran have met with serious violence by the police and Revolutionary Guard. Read more...

Thirty years ago a huge movement of workers and the poor overthrew the despised and hated dictatorship of the pro-American Shah of Iran. The mass workers’ uprising and the high level of organisation achieved in the revolution, illustrated the revolutionary socialist potential that existed in the situation. Jens-Hugo Nyberg looks at how the appalling betrayal of the mass struggle by the Stalinist leadership led to the formation of Iran’s reactionary theocratic state. Read more...

Members of the League for he Fifth İnternational visitied workers at a factory that has been occupied in a dispute over wages Read more...

گسترش اختلافات عیان داخل نظام دیکتاتوری ایران موجب ظهور موجی جدید از تظاهرات خیابانی گشته است. رسانه های جهانی در توصیف این موج جدید از کلمه خود جوش استفاده می کنند. اما همانطور که تروتسکی در مورد انقلاب فوریه 1917 روسیه گفت این بدان معناست که آنها فقط نمی دانند که چه کسی برنامه ریز آن بوده است. در جامعه و شهرهای کل کشور، فعالین، هزاران نفر را حول خواست دموکراسی سامان می دهند تا به دیکتاتوری پایان دهند. این نامه خطاب به این فعالین و طرفداران آنهاست. Read more...

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The increasingly public divisions within Iran's dictatorial regime have prompted a new wave of demonstrations. Read more...

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The character of the current movement, the role of imperialism in the crisis and Leninist-Trotskyist strategy for the Iranian Revolution. Read more...

The struggle that has taken place in Iran over the last two weeks is rich in lessons for all socialists, workers and youth. Read more...

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Simon Hardy argues that the street demonstrations need a new strategy to win
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This is an article received from a reader of fifthinternational.org who is in Tehran, sent on the 21st June. We publish it here to provide eyewitness accounts of what is going on in Iran Read more...

Iran is gripped by a political crisis, reports Simon Hardy. Claims of rigged elections have spiralled into a mass popular movement on the streets, but is Mousavi the way forward?
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Iranian presidential elections take place on 12 June. Zhaleh Sahand from Workers Power US argues that there is growing discontent and serious upheavals lie ahead Read more...

Israel's supporters, or Zionists, are increasingly pushed onto the defensive as the horrible reality of Israel's treatment of the Palestinians hits the headlines. Breaking the ceasefire in December, Israel brutally attacked the almost defenceless population of Gaza, killing 1,330 Palestinians and injuring 5,450 in 25 days. But Nat Silverstein believes Zionists have all but run out of justifications for Israeli war crimes, and as a result they wrongly argue that opposition to Israel means that you are anti-Semitic, i.e. racist against Jews. Read more...

Was the defeat of the working class inevitable? No, argues Rebecca Anderson, it was because of the disastrous mistakes and betrayals of the various left-wing parties. Read more...

Marcus Halaby looks at the results of the Israeli elections, which will only create a right wing, conservative government. Read more...

The Israeli onslaught in the Gaza strip has ended, after weeks of heroic resistance from the Palestinians and massive protests and demonstrations across the world. Read more...

Today Israel and Hamas announced separate unilateral "ceasefires", despite the rather confusing headlines of some news agencies. Read more...

Dave Stockton, the international secretary of the League for the Fifth International, outlines what kind of steps the international Palestine solidarity movement needs to take to help defeat the Zioni Read more...

On Saturday 10th January 2009 over 1.2 million people marched across the world calling for an end to the Israeli attacks on the Gaza strip. Read more...

On Friday, 2nd January, more than 8,000 people participated in the second demonstration in Vienna against Israel’s terrorist war. This demonstration was called by many Muslim associations. Read more...

A world wide movement has taken to the streets against the attacks on the Gaza strip. Read more...

As Israeli troops go into Gaza, support for the Palestinian resistance is now urgently needed! Read more...

Outrage against Israel's actions has led to demonstrations of thousands across the world. From the USA to Venezuela, Indonesia and across the Middle East people are taking to the streets to protest against the brutal slaughter of the Palestinians. Read more...