National Sections of the L5I:

Liberation

India: the Current Political Movement against CAA and NRC

Our thanks to our guest writer, Mira Ghaib, in Delhi, for this contribution on the situation in India.

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India: Modi, Master of the Pogroms

On the night of 23 February, whilst Donald Trump and Narendra Modi were engaged in mutual admiration in Ahmedabad, the capital of Modi’s home state of Gujarat, Muslims in Delhi were subjected to the f Read more...

Defeat the Trump Plan to Destroy Palestine

Syria: threatening all-out war?

Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people are fleeing what is left of their homes in Syria. Read more...

Germany: Right extremist terror in Hanau

Nine lives were lost in the most recent extreme right-wing terrorist attack in Germany. Read more...

Croatia: Electoral setback for the Right

In Croatia’s elections earlier this month, the Croatian Democratic Union (Hrvatska Demokratska Zajednica; HDZ) lost the country’s presidency, in a major blow to the alliance of far-right governments c Read more...

Pakistan: Solidarity with PTM leaders! Free Manzoor Pashteen!

The Pakistani state has unleashed its paranoia-filled authoritarianism once again with the arrest of the leader of the Pashtun Tahafuz (Protection) Movement (PTM), Manzoor Pashteen, and others, on Jan Read more...

Pakistan: Internationalist solidarity with Women’s Democratic Front

The League for the Fifth International categorically condemns the seven-hour-long illegal detention of the Balochistan president of the Women’s Democratic Front, WDF, Jalila Haider. Read more...

Iran: From vigils to protests

When government officials belatedly admitted that Iranian missiles were responsible for downing a Ukrainian airliner taking off from Tehran, university students who had gathered to mourn the victims t Read more...

The November Coup in Bolivia and how to reverse it

Bolivia’s first indigenous president, Evo Morales, and his Vice President, Alvaro García Linera, were overthrown in a coup, which culminated on 10 November 2019. Read more...

Students killed by police - Solidarity with Indian student movement!

Pakistan: Solidarity with Student March organisers

Turnout at the Student Solidarity March on Friday, November 29, was very impressive with demonstrations in 55 cities. Read more...

Palestine: Trump’s Gift to Netanyahu

The US government has declared that it will no longer consider the Israeli settlements on the West Bank to be a violation of international law. Read more...

Pakistan: How to deal with the foot soldiers of campus censorship and violence?

Recently, a number of mainstream Pakistani leftist leaders have publicly shown an openness towards two mainstream right-wing Islamist forces. Read more...

Spain: Can the Socialist-Populist embrace last?

The November 10 parliamentary election in Spain, the second this year and the fourth since 2015, once again produced an unstable parliament with no absolute majority for any one party. Read more...

Thuringia after the election: where now for the Left Party?

Thuringia marked the low point of the recent East German state elections. Read more...

Sri Lanka: No choice for the working class in the presidential election

Sri Lanka goes to the polls tomorrow, November 16, to elect a new president. Read more...

Sri Lanka: Vote Socialist - and organise to fight!

Sri Lanka is facing a steadily worsening economic situation. For years, governments have spent more than they raised. Read more...

Syria: Erdogan-Putin deal against Rojava

The Turkish-Russian agreement on the establishment of a buffer zone along the Turkish-Syrian border, which was negotiated in Sochi on 22 October, has fundamentally changed the balance of power in Syri Read more...

Pakistan: Azadi March: “Civilian supremacy” and the contradictions of the ruling class

The Azadi march of JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman that began from Karachi on October 27 is an expression of the inner contradictions of the bourgeoisie. Read more...

Catalonia: release the prisoners!

On 14 October, after a trial lasting four months, the Madrid Supreme Court sentenced nine Catalan separatist leaders to between nine and 13 years in prison for their part in the 2017 secession movemen Read more...

Germany: Antisemitic attack in Halle

For a long time, the growth of Right wing terrorism in Germany has been downplayed or even denied outright. On Wednesday, October 9, it once again showed the reality of its bloody, inhuman face. Read more...

US imperialism abandons Kurdish allies to Turkish invasion

Donald Trump has just signaled a dramatic shift in US policy in northern Syria, betraying his erstwhile allies the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), in which the Kurdish YPG militia are the dominant for Read more...

Azadi March in Kashmir – first hurdles overcome, but more are to come

Since October 3, 30,000 or more have joined the Azadi (Freedom) March in Kashmir. The protest is organised by the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front, JKLF. Read more...

Israel: Elections further shatter two state solution

Benjamin Netanyahu called the 17 September Knesset election in the hope that it would give him the majority he needed to create a new coalition and remain prime minister. Read more...

Pakistan: Utopian or revolutionary alternatives?

In May of this year, Pakistan agreed its 13th "structural adjustment" deal with the IMF. Read more...

El Paso: White supremacists kill again

On August 3, 22 people were killed and 24 injured when the 21 year old white supremacist Patrick Crusius targeted an El Paso Walmart popular with shoppers from a Mexican background. Read more...

Pakistan: Jiand Baloch is free - the Baloch people are not!

On August 2, many rejoiced when the Baloch Students' Organisation, BSO, announced the release of the student leader Jiand Baloch on their social media platform, https://www.facebook.com/bso1967/. Read more...

Solidarity with the struggle of the people of Jammu and Kashmir!

On August 5 Amit Shah, India's minister for home affairs who is also the president of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), presented a presidential order in the Rajya Sabha, the Upper House of Ind Read more...

International solidarity against the attacks of the "Antideutsche" (Anti-Germans)

The following resolution is a Joint Declaration of Internationalist Groups and Organizations which was adopted on 13 June 2019. Read more...

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