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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...
USA: Andrew Brown Jr killing: Justice can only be won by mass action
Tom Burns, Raleigh, North Carolina Mon, 03/05/2021 - 10:28On April 21, police in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, shot Andrew Brown Jr in the back of the head. Read more...
George Floyd murder trial verdict: a first victory for mass action
Tom Burns, Workers Power, USA Wed, 21/04/2021 - 13:56USA: Police killings, this time it's Chicago
Tom Burns, Workers Power, USA Sun, 18/04/2021 - 17:49Late last month, a 13 year old boy named Adam Toledo was shot by Chicago police. Adam was a Latino. Immediately after the incident, Chicago police stated that there had been an “armed confrontation”. Read more...
UK: Unionism in crisis as Loyalists lash out
Bernie McAdam, Red Flag Thu, 15/04/2021 - 10:25For over a week, Loyalists have been attacking the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) in riots in Belfast, Derry and other parts of Northern Ireland. Read more...
USA: Daunte Wright’s murder shows police cannot be reformed
Tom Burns, Workers Power, USA Wed, 14/04/2021 - 07:46April 11, 2021 saw the murder at a traffic stop of Daunte Wright, aged 20, by police officers in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. Police allege that Mr. Read more...
Turkey: Solidarity with the HDP!
Dilara Lorin, GAM Infomail 1144, Berlin, 4 April 2021 Wed, 07/04/2021 - 15:16The ban on the only left-wing opposition party in the Turkish parliament, the HDP (Halkların Demokratik Partisi, Peoples' Democratic Party), was rejected once again by the Constitutional Court on 31 M Read more...
USA: The Roots of the Rise in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes
Benji Weiss, Workers Power USA Tue, 30/03/2021 - 17:42IN the year since the murder of George Floyd, the harsh reality of the racism still experienced by African Americans, 150 years after the abolition of slavery and half a century since the civil rights Read more...
Austria: LINKS Conference - A Political Change in Austria?
Arbeiter*innenstandpunkt Tue, 23/03/2021 - 19:16Recently, the new Viennese party LINKS (left in German) held its annual conference. Read more...
We will not be Silenced: Solidarity with Pakistan's Women's Movement
League for the Fifth International Wed, 17/03/2021 - 13:26In Pakistan, violence against women and rape cases doubled in the last six months of 2020, cases of child abuse even tripled. Read more...
Myanmar: Resistance to coup continues, solidarity with workers and youth
Dave Stockton Wed, 10/03/2021 - 13:26March has witnessed a steep escalation of repression by Myanmar’s military – the Tatmadaw - against completely peaceful and unarmed demonstrators. Read more...
International Women’s Day, 2021
League for the Fifth International Sat, 06/03/2021 - 20:192020 will long be remembered for the enormous scale of the public health, economic and social crisis triggered by Covid19. Read more...
General strike and giant demonstrations rock Myanmar’s military
Dave Stockton Tue, 23/02/2021 - 17:27Vast crowds have packed the streets of the cities of Myanmar (Burma) in the largest day of protests thus far against the February 1 takeover by the corrupt and brutal Tatmadaw, the country’s armed for Read more...
USA: Biden promises to "build back better"
Dave Stockton, Red Flag No 38, February, 2021 Sun, 14/02/2021 - 09:49Most of the world’s political leaders are rejoicing over the replacement of Donald Trump by Joe Biden. Read more...
Elections in Kosovo - What can we expect from Vetevendosje?
Hasan S.Kuqi/Franz Ickstatt Fri, 12/02/2021 - 12:10February 14 will see the voters in Kosovo go the polls to elect a new parliament, just 16 months after the last elections and after two governments collapsed within a year. Read more...
The military coup in Myanmar – from resistance to revolution
International Secretariat, League for the Fifth International Tue, 09/02/2021 - 14:29For several days now, demonstrations numbering hundreds of thousands have filled the streets of Myanmar’s largest city, Yangon, its second city, Mandalay, the capital, Naypyidaw, and many other cities Read more...
Austria: Corona demonstrations: Fascist marches or harmless confusion?
Alex Zora Thu, 04/02/2021 - 12:37In recent weeks, Austria has seen an upswing in the mobilization of “Corona-sceptics”. Read more...
France: Macron’s war on Separatism
Kady Tait and Dave Stockton, Red Flag 38 Sun, 24/01/2021 - 14:16On 9 December, France’s prime minister, Jean Castex, held a press conference to announce the publication of a "draft law to strengthen republican values", aimed at defending secularism (Laïcité) and f Read more...
Pakistan: Down with state repression! International solidarity with Kashmir!
International Secretariat, League for the Fifth International Wed, 13/01/2021 - 18:42As reports of the Pakistani state preparing a major police operation against Kashmiris pour in, the League for the Fifth International sends solidarity to the people of Kashmir who went on strike on t Read more...
The new scramble for Africa in the Western Sahara
Urte March Sun, 10/01/2021 - 18:48In the dying days of his presidency, the chaos Donald Trump is inciting at home is matched by calculated provocations abroad. Read more...
Statement on Trump’s fascist provocation
International Secretariat and WPUSA Thu, 07/01/2021 - 18:45The storming of the US Capitol by a mob of fascists, at the instigation of Donald Trump, was an abortive attempt by the cornered but still vicious President to coerce the Congress (and the Vice Presid Read more...
UK: Boris Johnson's Brexit heralds race to the bottom
Statement by the Political Committee of Red Flag Tue, 29/12/2020 - 09:37Whatever a narrow majority of the electorate imagined they would get when they voted to Leave the European Union, the strategists who planned Brexit knew exactly what they wanted. Read more...
UK: Labour in crisis over repression of Corbyn supporters
Dave Stockton Tue, 01/12/2020 - 22:52On 29 October 2020, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Leader from September 2015 to April 2020, was suspended from party membership and had his membership of the Parliamentary Labour Party withdrawn. Read more...
France: down with the “security” laws and police impunity!
Marc Lasalle Mon, 30/11/2020 - 16:11The second wave of the pandemic, combined with a second month-long lockdown, are certainly far from the best conditions to organise a fight back against President Emmanuel Macron’s draconian new globa Read more...
Solidarity with the General Strike in India
Martin Suchanek Fri, 27/11/2020 - 08:56Since the morning of November 26, a massive general strike is sweeping across India. Trade Unions expect up to 250 million participants. Read more...