Three years after the fall of Mubarak, even the bourgeois media are asking whether anything has really changed in Egypt, or whether the current military interim government is trying to bring about a Read more...

The French government has sent 1,600 troops to the Central African Republic to disarm rebel militias under a United Nations plan to “restore order” to a country destabilised by decades of exploitation Read more...

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Egypt after the Military Coup. Read more...

The fireworks celebrating the “cold” military coup that overthrew elected President Mohamed Morsi, however understandable, will prove shortsighted - and probably sooner rather than later. Read more...

Egypt: Army poised to take power Read more...

In early February, Tunisia was shaken by the brutal assassination of Chokri Belaïd, general secretary of the Party of United Patriotic Democrats, which identifies its politics as Marxist-Pan-Arabist, Read more...

President Mohammed Morsi's December referendum victory for a constitution he rushed through a puppet Constituent Assembly does not have a shred of democratic legitimacy. Read more...

As the civil war moves towards its climax, the question of the future “new order" in Syria inevitably comes to the fore. Read more...

Journalists have suggest that praise from US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton for his services over the Gaza ceasefire went to the head of President Mohammed Morsi. Read more...

The League for the Fifth International condemns the brutal massacre – reminiscent of the Apartheid era – of 34 striking miners at the Marikana platinum mine, Rustenburg, South Africa. Read more...

The election of Mohammed Morsi, candidate of the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the electoral front of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) - represents a defeat for the Egyptian Revolution, not a limited de Read more...

The principal demand of the February 2011 protests that marked the beginning of Egypt’s revolution was for President Hosni Mubarak’s immediate resignation. Read more...

 
Millions of people in Nigeria are taking action against their government for cutting fuel subsidies, writes Dave Stockton. But the movements leaders are proving to be hopeless
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The Egyptian revolution is fighting back against the military government, as fierce battles rage again in Tahrir square Read more...

Marcus Halaby looks at how the growing strike wave, mass demonstrations in Tahrir square and Israeli embassy protests herald a new wave of revolution. Read more...

Las potencias IMPERIALISTAS se vieron atrapadas apoyando al “bando equivocado” en las revoluciones de Túnez y Egipto, señala Richard Brenner. Sólo cuando se hizo evidente que Mubarak caería, cambiaron completamente y empezaron a posar como apóstoles de la democracia. Read more...

Gaddafi has been defeated – now the fight is on to save Libya from NATO and the oil grabbing western powers, writes Richard Brenner Read more...

THE IMPERIALIST powers were caught backing the ‘wrong side’ in the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions, notes Richard Brenner. Only when it became clear that Mubarak would fall, did they turn around and start to pose as apostles of democracy. Read more...

There has been a fierce debate on the international left about whether to support the rebels, defend Gaddafi or remain neutral. It has seen socialists end up on totally different sides of the revolutionary struggle. So what is causing the confusion? Read more...

Gaddafi's army melted away as the rebels approached the capital, but what is next for the revolution? A statement by the League for the Fifth International Read more...

A terrible famine is gripping East Africa, writes Rachel Brooks, but why is food so scarce? Read more...

The fighting in Libya continues to rage as the imperialists attempt to frustrate the revolution whilst isolating Gaddafi. Read more...

The struggle for gay rights in Uganda and across Africa has been hitting the headlines. Simon Hardy asks why is homophobia still such an issue today? Read more...

The civil war in Libya has intensified, writes Simon Hardy, as both sides struggle for control of major cities and towns Read more...

As French helicopters fire on forces still loyal to Laurent Gbagbo and militia supporting his rival Alassane Ouattara take over the countries largest city, Joana Ramiro explores the political history Read more...

Imperialism has intervened into Libya not to save the revolution, but to co-opt it, writes Simon Hardy Read more...