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Anti-migrant aggression in Eastern Europe exposes EU hypocrisy

The 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

Massive controversy has followed the 19 November acquittal of rightwing vigilante Kyle Rittenhouse in the US. Read more...

India: Farmers' victory against Modi government

After 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

In 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

First published in Fifth International 22.
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Refugees victimised in EU-Belarus ‘hybrid war’

ON 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?

For 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

Texas 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?

Every 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

Afghan 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!

With 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!

In a declaration in June 2021, President Macron announced the end of France's Operation Barkhane in Mali. Read more...

USA exits Afghanistan in ignominy

Just 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

First published in Fifth International 22.
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Peru: Preparing for a right wing coup?

The second round of Peru's presidential elections was held on 6 June. Read more...

China: The centenary of the Communist Party

First published in Fifth International 22.
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UK: The crisis of Ulster Unionism deepens

Ulster Unionism is experiencing a profound crisis right now. Read more...

Brazil: the right wing threat and how to fight it

First 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

Kieran Allen’s latest book is a timely exposition of the case for a united Ireland. Read more...

Femicide in Austria

Austria 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

The 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

The 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

Hundreds 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

The 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!

The 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

James 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!

لشبيبة حي الشيخ جراح كل التضامن! كل التضامن مع المقاومة الفلسطينية! Read more...

Halt Israeli aggression in Gaza and Jerusalem - for a third Intifada

Once 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

Forty 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...

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