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Anti-migrant aggression in Eastern Europe exposes EU hypocrisy
Urte March, Workers ower 389, December 2021 Sun, 12/12/2021 - 18:39The horrific scenes of families, including young children, starving and freezing on the Belarusian border represent a new low for human rights in the recent history of Europe. Read more...
USA: A tale of two shootings
Andy Yorke Sat, 04/12/2021 - 12:04Massive controversy has followed the 19 November acquittal of rightwing vigilante Kyle Rittenhouse in the US. Read more...
India: Farmers' victory against Modi government
Javiad Imran Thu, 02/12/2021 - 08:47After a year of courageous struggle, Indian farmers have humbled India’s “strongman" Narendra Modi. Modi had to broadcast to the nation that he intended to repeal the neoliberal agricultural laws. Read more...
Halt the tragedies in the Channel – let the refugees in
Da Thu, 25/11/2021 - 12:59In the latest tragedy in the English Channel, at least 27 refugees, including five women and a young girl, drowned when their inflatable dinghy capsized in the icy waters. Read more...
Afghanistan's economy in free fall
Martin Suchanek Mon, 08/11/2021 - 10:16First published in Fifth International 22.
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Refugees victimised in EU-Belarus ‘hybrid war’
Urte March, Workers Power 388, November 2021 Fri, 05/11/2021 - 12:53ON THE border between Belarus and its EU neighbours; Poland, Latvia and Lithuania, refugees from the global south are once again being used as pawns in a vicious inter-state power struggle. Read more...
The end of the Chilean model?
Markus Lehner, Neue Internationale 260, November 2021 Wed, 03/11/2021 - 11:23For many decades, Chile was one of the favourite countries of Wall Street & Co. The country was considered a model for neoliberalism's "way to the top". Read more...
Texas law triggers US-wide attack on abortion rights
Marcus Otono, Nashville, Tennessee Tue, 12/10/2021 - 13:01Texas has become the testing ground for a new approach to the nearly 50 year-long battle over abortion rights in the United States. Read more...
France: Anti health pass demonstrations: no-pass or no-vax?
Marc Lassalle Sun, 10/10/2021 - 16:25Every Saturday, from mid-July to the end of August, about 200,000 people protested in France against the introduction of a health pass. Read more...
Afghanistan: Women show the way against fundamentalist reaction
Revolutionary Socialist Movement, Pakistan section of the League for the Fifth International Sun, 12/09/2021 - 15:25Afghan women are leading the way in organising anti-Taliban protests in Kabul and other parts of Afghanistan. They are doing what US and allied occupying forces failed to do: stand up to the Taliban. Read more...
German Homes Ltd: Yes to a referendum, Yes to expropriation!
Tomasz Jaroslaw/Veronika Schulz, Neue Internationale 258, Berlin, September 2021 Thu, 02/09/2021 - 17:02With some 250,000 valid signatures, the campaign "Expropriate Deutsche Wohnen & Co." (DWE - Expropriate "German Homes and Co") achieved the best result ever for a Berlin referendum in June. Read more...
French troops out of Mali, down with French colonialism!
Marc Lassalle Mon, 16/08/2021 - 13:55In a declaration in June 2021, President Macron announced the end of France's Operation Barkhane in Mali. Read more...
USA exits Afghanistan in ignominy
Dave Stockton Tue, 20/07/2021 - 09:12Just short of the twentieth anniversary of George W Bush’s declaration of his War on Terrorism, Joe Biden announced the final exit of the remaining 2500 US troops from Afghanistan. Read more...
War, massacre and starvation face millions in Ethiopia-Tigray War
Dave Stockton Mon, 12/07/2021 - 12:59First published in Fifth International 22.
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Peru: Preparing for a right wing coup?
Markus Lehner, Neue Internationale, Juli/August 2021 Sun, 11/07/2021 - 11:06The second round of Peru's presidential elections was held on 6 June. Read more...
China: The centenary of the Chinese Communist Party, part 2
Peter Main Fri, 02/07/2021 - 17:49China: The centenary of the Communist Party
Peter Main Thu, 01/07/2021 - 10:41First published in Fifth International 22.
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UK: The crisis of Ulster Unionism deepens
Bernie McAdam, Red Flag Fri, 25/06/2021 - 11:28Ulster Unionism is experiencing a profound crisis right now. Read more...
Brazil: the right wing threat and how to fight it
Carlos Uchoa Magrini, Assíria Conti Fri, 11/06/2021 - 17:28First published in Fifth International 22.
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Review: 32 Counties: The Failure of Partition and the Case for a United Ireland by Kieran Allan
Bernie McAdam Fri, 11/06/2021 - 17:24Kieran Allen’s latest book is a timely exposition of the case for a united Ireland. Read more...
Femicide in Austria
Aventina Holzer, AST 283 Mon, 07/06/2021 - 11:10Austria is one of the few EU countries where regularly more women are killed than men. In 2017, it was the only one. But what does this different profile of female homicides tell us? Read more...
Palestine: Key tasks for the resistance and the solidarity movement
League for the Fifth International Thu, 03/06/2021 - 13:05The mass response of the Palestinian people to the Israeli settler and police provocations in Sheikh Jarrah and at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the subsequent bombardment of Gaza and the political victory of t Read more...
Belarus: Lukashenko's struggle against the opposition and the new Cold War
Martin Suchanek, Neue International 256, Berlin, June 2021 Sun, 30/05/2021 - 20:28The forced landing of a Boeing 737 on 23 May represents another reckless blow by Belarusian President Lukashenko. Read more...
Palestine: huge demos must be followed up by mass action
Jeremy Dewar, redflagonline Fri, 28/05/2021 - 10:27Hundreds of thousands have flooded the streets of Britain over the course of 10 days in May, outraged at Israel’s onslaught on Palestinians first in East Jerusalem, then in Gaza, and then inside the b Read more...
Statement on the Israeli - Hamas Ceasefire
International Secretariat, League for the Fifth International Fri, 21/05/2021 - 18:03The ceasefire agreed between Israel and Hamas represents a victory for the Third Palestinian Intifada in all its components – Hamas’s unquelled rocket bombardment, the heroic resistance of the populat Read more...
Victory to the Palestinian Intifada!
Dave Stockton Thu, 20/05/2021 - 12:38The Western media’s propaganda, that the relentless bombing of Gaza is a defensive war in response to Hamas rockets fired into Israel, is a brazen lie. Read more...
Partition: A "carnival of reaction" 100 years on
Bernie McAdam, Red Flag Thu, 13/05/2021 - 10:03James Connolly, the great Irish socialist, correctly predicted the consequence of the partition of Ireland would be a "carnival of reaction both north and south". Read more...
لشبيبة حي الشيخ جراح كل التضامن! كل التضامن مع المقاومة الفلسطينية!
Dilara Lorin, Martin Suchanek Wed, 12/05/2021 - 18:37لشبيبة حي الشيخ جراح كل التضامن! كل التضامن مع المقاومة الفلسطينية! Read more...
Halt Israeli aggression in Gaza and Jerusalem - for a third Intifada
Dilara Lorin, Martin Suchanek Wed, 12/05/2021 - 13:19Once again, Israeli warplanes are bombing the Gaza Strip, the world’s most densely populated area, packed with 1.5 million civilians, including more than one million refugees. Read more...
Bobby Sands: Irish Freedom Fighter, 1954-1981
Dara O’Cogaidhin, Red Flag Wed, 05/05/2021 - 18:02Forty years ago, on May 5th 1981, Bobby Sands died in Long Kesh prison after 66 days on hunger strike. He was the first of 10 Republican hunger strikers allowed to perish by the British government. Read more...