International Women’s Day is returning to the radical social roots that inspired its foundation in the early twentieth century, and its rebirth in the 1960s and 1970s. Read more...

For many, from feminists such as Alice Schwarzer to the Alternative for Germany, it has long been “proved” that Islam is not like other religions. Read more...

The relentless bombardment and starvation of the civilian population of eastern Aleppo by the forces of Bashar al Assad, Russia, Iran and the Lebanese Hezbollah, rightly aroused public revulsion, espe Read more...

In his struggle for absolute power, Recep Tayyip Erdogan is pushing forward his attacks on the opposition. Read more...

The reappearance of four social media bloggers, who were abducted on January 17 (see http://www.fifthinternational.org/content/free-all-activists-%E2%80%93-p... Read more...

It was the largest international demonstration since the Iraq War. The ‘Women’s March’ on 21 January capped a two day explosion of resistance to the inauguration of Donald Trump.  Read more...

JEREMY CORBYN kicked off 2017 by announcing that Labour was not committed “in principle” to defending freedom of movement for workers within the European Union. Read more...

Many in Austria breathed a sigh of relief on December 4 when the results of the re-run Presidential election were announced. Read more...

Since January 4, five well known bloggers and social media activists have gone missing in Pakistan. Read more...

Until quite recently, Germany seemed a bit different from the rest of Europe. Read more...

THE SIEGE of Aleppo has entered its final hours. Read more...

During the night of November 4, under the pretext of fighting terrorism, the Turkish government imprisoned 14 members of parliament of the pro-Kurdish opposition party HDP, including both the co-chair Read more...

Since the end of the workers' movement against the Loi El Khomri last July, the government and the reactionary forces in France are back on the offensive. Read more...

After the initiation of the impeachment process against President Dilma Roussef of the Workers' Party, PT, by the House of Representatives on 17 April 2016 and its confirmation by the Senate, which t Read more...

Until quite recently, German imperialism seemed a bit different from the rest of Europe. Read more...

South Africa’s student movement has closed down many of the country’s universities for nearly a month now in their campaign to abolish fees. Read more...

奥兰多大屠杀后的同性恋恐惧症和种族主义

发生在美国佛罗里达州奥兰多市的一间同性恋夜店的枪击案造成49人死亡。世界各地有千百万人对遇难者及其伴侣、亲戚和朋友表示同情和哀悼。与此同时，我们也应对全美国的同性恋者、双性人及跨性别者（合称ＬＧＢＴ）表示同情和支持，这起惨案对他们打击巨大。 Read more...

Since the killing of Burhan Wani (see: http://www.fifthinternational.org/content/kashmir-killing-sparks-mass-op... ) there has been a severe crack down by the Indian state on th Read more...

Although, in an interview with Germany's public broadcaster, ARD, Angela Merkel ducked the question, “how democratic is Turkey now?”, the answer has been clear for a long time: the political strength Read more...

On September 10, in Finland's capital city, Helsinki, 28-year-old Jimi Joonas Karttunen was attacked from behind by supporters of the Finnish branch of the neo-Nazi Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM), a Read more...

When the international media talk about “the refugee crisis” they generally mean the situation in Europe, ignoring the plight of millions across a vast area stretching from the Atlantic to the Himalay Read more...

The first of the reactionary consequences of Brexit is the major boost it has given to racist attacks on people perceived to be migrants. The effect was immediate. Read more...

In the wake of the terrorist atrocities of 13 November 2015, which left 130 dead, Socialist government ministers and local mayors in various cities and regions have launched a series of measures targe Read more...

On August 8, a suicide bombing killed at least 110 and injured a further 200 at a state-run hospital in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan. Read more...

Since July 7, Syria’s largest city, Aleppo, has witnessed intense fighting after Assad regime forces and their Lebanese and Russian allies cut off the eastern part of the city, with a population of 25 Read more...

On November 28, 2014, representatives from 58 European and African countries met to adopt the "Khartoum Process". Read more...

Although the attempted coup by elements of the Armed Forces on July 15 was successfully defeated, since then, there has been a decisive shift in the balance of power by which the president, Recep Tayy Read more...

We have compared the police and vigilante terror against black people in the United States to a horror version of the film “Groundhog Day” before. Read more...

On July 8, Indian soldiers shot dead Burhan Wani in the forests south east of Srinagar, the capital of Indian-administered Kashmir. Read more...

在资本主义经济危机和新自由主义结构改革中妇女往往是首当其冲、受害最深的群体。在巴基斯坦，妇女的就业基本被局限在“非正式”的行业中。这些行业很庞大，它遍布城市和乡镇，雇佣了大约6500万工人，约占全国劳动力总数的四分之三。

在这些行业里工作的工人，不管是男是女，都享受不到国家劳动法规的保障。没有社会保障和医疗保险，也没有养老金和带薪休假的福利，大多数人领到的工资要少于国家规定的最低工资。 Read more...