National Sections of the L5I:

Liberation

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...

Sweden: After the election, Right wing forces must be defeated through mass struggle

The result of the 2022 election represents more than just a parliamentary victory for the right. Sweden will now have a government focused on militant class struggle from above. Read more...

Half a year of war: Putin's endgame?

The Russian army's significant losses of occupied Ukrainian territories in September has faced Putin and his regime with the possibility of defeat. Read more...

Between the rounds of Brazil’s presidential election

Against the run of the country’s opinion polls, which showed Lula da Silva might win outright in the first round of Brazil’s presidential election on October 2, the result was 47.9 percent for Lula an 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...

Mikhail Gorbachev – a tragic figure in world history

At the age of 91, Mikhail Gorbachev, the last president of the Soviet Union and party leader of the CPSU, died on August 30 in Moscow. –

Putin's condolences 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...

Belarus: "Railway partisans" threatened with execution

In March and April, the Russian army stood at the gates of Kyiv, but Putin's invasion of Ukraine stalled. A few weeks later, Russia had to withdraw from the area around the capital. Read more...

Taiwan - a sign of the times

August 4, the anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War, might not seem an auspicious date for China to mobilise its forces to surround Taiwan. Read more...

Biden's visit to two pariah states

Joe Biden has ended his four day trip to the Middle East with little to show for it except a further soiled reputation as a champion of human rights. Read more...

France: Macron weakened, RN rising, increasing class struggle

France has had a long season of elections. It started last autumn with the presidential campaign, including primaries in the major parties, that generated a xenophobic, anti-migrant climate. Read more...

US Supreme Court strikes heaviest blow in generations to women's rights

Finally, they have done it. On June 24, after fifty years of a limited constitutional right to abortion, American women were robbed of that right. Read more...

The West’s war aims in Ukraine

THE WORLD situation in 2022 is characterised by multiple crises—the most immediate and far reaching in its global consequences is the war in Ukraine, which has massively boosted re-armament, the expan Read more...

Sinn Fein's historic victory runs into Unionist veto

Sinn Fein won a historic victory in the Northern Ireland Assembly election. Read more...

Germany: Viva, viva Palestine! - Protest actions despite demo bans in Berlin

Despite a massive police presence on Berlin's streets and especially in the district of Neukölln, despite massive repression and numerous arrests, a ban on all public pro-Palestinian rallies in the ca 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...

Sri Lanka: For a Constituent Assembly!

"Rajapaksa is sending his thugs to kill us", that was the one line message sent to the League by a supporter at the protest camp on Galle Face Green in Colombo on May 9. Read more...

USA: The Leak – What It Means for Abortion Rights

The recent leak of a “first draft” of a majority opinion from the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), repealing the Roe v Wade judgment that legalized abortion rights throughout the United St Read more...

The War over Ukraine: National Defence or Imperialist War?

For all their rejection of the imperialist aggression represented by the Russian attack on Ukraine at the end of February, Marxists must ask themselves deeper questions about the background to the con Read more...

Macron wins: class collaboration is no way to stop his new offensive

The second round of France’s presidential election on 24 April saw Emmanuel Macron, an arrogant neoliberal ‘reformer’, returned to the Elysée for a second term. Read more...

Malvinas War anniversary

Forty years ago, Margaret Thatcher’s Tory government fought an undeclared war against Argentina for control of the Malvinas or, as Britain calls them, the Falkland Islands. Read more...

Belarus: Solidarity with railway workers

On 19 March, railway workers from Belarus closed the railway lines to Ukraine in order to block supplies for the invading Russian troops. Read more...

Ukraine: Sanctions: ‘war by other means’

Russia’s imperialist invasion of Ukraine has prompted justified outrage around the world. Read more...

Solidarity with the Russian anti-war movement!

Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, there have been protests around the world - including in Russia itself. This article is dedicated to them. Read more...

France's presidential election: No to racism, No to imperialism, Prepare the fight!

The winner of the presidential election in France is effectively a foregone conclusion. Read more...

Women in Afghanistan: Resistance to Islamism and Imperialism

The defeat and ignominious withdrawal of the imperialist occupation forces in Afghanistan brought the Taliban back to power. Read more...

International Women's Day

Against War, Women’s Oppression and Capitalism!

For an International gathering of Women’s Movements! Read more...

The war in Ukraine and the struggle for the re-division of the world

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has opened a new stage in the struggle for the re-division of the world between the great powers. Read more...

Pakistan: Gwadar's struggle against capitalist "development"

The port city of Gwadar in Balochistan is the starting point for the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, CPEC, a key strategic link in Beijing's "Belt and Road Initiative". Read more...

NATO, USA, EU, Russia, Ukraine: Background to the Propaganda War

Revolutionary communists must not be taken in by the propaganda of rulers, especially not those of the imperialist countries. Read more...

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