On May 7, Warsaw witnessed its largest demonstration since the end of Communism. Around 240,000 people answered the call of the "Committee for the Defence of Democracy", KOD. Read more...

Spain ended 2015 with parliamentary elections in which the two-party system that had lasted for decades took a historic hammering. Read more...

Jo Cox, Labour MP for Batley and Spen has been assassinated by a neo-Nazi terrorist for her anti-racist and pro-refugee beliefs. Read more...

Ireland’s modern history has a long and proud record of rebellion against British rule. Read more...

Syrians in the rebel-held “liberated zones” marked the beginning of the US and Russian-brokered “cessation of hostilities” by coming out onto the streets in their tens of thousands, with anti-Assad ra Read more...

The war on the Kurds in Turkey is not only a business of bombs and tanks, it is also a dirty bureaucratic process. Read more...

On the International Workers' Day, May 1, the violent, openly Nazi group Nordic Resistance Movement (Nordiska Motståndsrörelsen, NMR), staged a demonstration in the town of Borlänge, about 200 km nort Read more...

On March 5, 1946, Britain’s war leader, Winston Churchill, delivered a speech in which he said, “an iron curtain has descended across the Continent”. Read more...

Women continue to face fierce austerity attacks on welfare, jobs, trade union rights, education, healthcare, childcare – the list seems to never end. Read more...

The struggle for women’s rights exploded towards the end of the 19th Century, as hundreds of thousands of women in the industrialised countries were drawn into mass production. Read more...

Women workers are often the hardest hit by neo-liberal restructuring and capitalist crisis. Read more...

Revolution, the international Communist youth organisation, declares its complete solidarity with students at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), against the arrest of JNU Student Union President Kanha Read more...

At the start of the refugee crisis, in the autumn of 2015, Swedish authorities behaved relatively decently, compared to other European countries. Read more...

Once again, a wave of tens of thousands of refugees is trying to cross the Syrian-Turkish border, seeking asylum from the horrors of Syria’s civil war, with 35,000 at the Bab al-Salama border crossing Read more...

ON New Year's Eve, in Cologne, hundreds of women were intimidated and threatened. At least two rapes were reported. Read more...

Marine Le Pen's Front National, FN, was expected to do well in the regional elections in France in early December but, although it did not win control of a single region, the results still came as a s Read more...

“France is at war,” declared President François Hollande after the barbaric massacre in the centre of Paris – adding that it will be pitiless. War - but against whom? Read more...

Media coverage of the US presidential primaries is largely concentrated on the Republican Party. Read more...

Millions of people in France and worldwide were shocked when they heard of the murder of 129 people in Paris on the evening of November 13. Read more...

On November 1, the Justice and Development Party, AKP, led by Ahmet Davutoğlu, but in reality dominated by the authoritarian Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, swept back to power with an absolut Read more...

In the last month, Israeli security forces have murdered 60 Palestinians, 15 of them under 18. Read more...

What began as a great demonstration for peace and against the state terror of the governing AKP ended in the bloodiest massacre in the recent history of the Turkish Republic. Read more...

The situation in Turkey has escalated dramatically recently. Across the country, 400 offices of the Kurdish HDP have been attacked, some buildings were even set on fire. Read more...

Over 100,000 people marched through the streets of London on Saturday 12 September under the slogan, “Refugees Welcome Here”. It was the biggest pro-migrant demonstration we have seen for many years. Read more...

After three weeks of public manoeuvring and who knows what private deals, Sri Lanka now has a new government. Read more...

Over the past 12 months, the world’s lens has focused on the killing of Black Americans by US police. Read more...

On the evening of 1 December 1955, a Black woman passenger in a bus in Montgomery, Alabama started a revolution. Read more...

On August 17, Sri Lanka goes to the polls in the first parliamentary election since the former President, Mahinda Rajapaksa, was defeated in the Presidential election last January. Read more...

On July 26, Sri Lanka's newly elected President, Maithripala Sirisena, dissolved Parliament and ordered a general election to be held on August 17. Read more...