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Pakistan: Azadi March: “Civilian supremacy” and the contradictions of the ruling class
Revolutionary Socialist Movement, Pakistan Wed, 30/10/2019 - 13:31The 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!
Dave Stockton Fri, 18/10/2019 - 09:09On 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
Gruppe ArbeiterInnenmacht, Infomail 1072, 10 October 2019 Fri, 11/10/2019 - 12:05For 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
Red Flag 31, October 2019 Thu, 10/10/2019 - 10:28Donald 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
Revolutionary Socialist Movement, Pakistan Sun, 06/10/2019 - 19:56Since 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
Robert Teller, Neue Internationale 241, October 2019 Fri, 04/10/2019 - 09:56Benjamin 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?
Hiba Jafri Sun, 01/09/2019 - 20:13In May of this year, Pakistan agreed its 13th "structural adjustment" deal with the IMF. Read more...
El Paso: White supremacists kill again
Dave Stockton Thu, 15/08/2019 - 10:37On 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!
International Secretariat, League for the Fifth International Tue, 13/08/2019 - 15:22On 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!
Revolutionary Socialist Movement (Pakistan) Sat, 10/08/2019 - 10:04On 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)
International Secretariat, League for the Fifth International Sat, 27/07/2019 - 09:27The following resolution is a Joint Declaration of Internationalist Groups and Organizations which was adopted on 13 June 2019. Read more...
Hindutva, The new face of the Indian capitalist class
Shehzad Arshad, Red Flag 29, July 2019 Mon, 22/07/2019 - 08:51The Hindutva chauvinist Bharatiya Janata Party, BJP, under the leadership of Narendra Modi, has won the elections to India’s lower house, Lok Sabha. Read more...
The women's strike in Switzerland - a historic day!
Susanne Kühn, New International 239, Berlin, July/August 2019 Mon, 15/07/2019 - 14:49On June 14, in Switzerland, around half a million people took part in the women's strike. Read more...
Free Captain Rakete! Stop the mass murder in the Mediterranean!
Martin Suchanek, GAM Infomail 1060, Berlin 30.05.19 Wed, 03/07/2019 - 08:20The arrest of the captain of the Sea Watch 3 triggered a storm of indignation throughout Europe. Read more...
European Action Programme
International Secretariat, League for the Fifth International Wed, 05/06/2019 - 20:12The crisis of the European Union Read more...
UK: EU election results show time for compromise is over
Red Flag Editorial Board Tue, 28/05/2019 - 12:57As we go to press, the European election results are just emerging. Nigel Farage’s right populist Brexit Party was the clear winner with 31.6 per cent of the vote and 28 MEPs. Read more...
Pakistan: Solidarity with the Pashtun Protection Movement, PTM! Free Ali Wazir and all political prisoners!
League for the Fifth International Sun, 26/05/2019 - 15:32After weeks of hostile agitation and fabricated lies against the Pashtun Protection Movement, PTM, the military escalated the situation still further on 26 May, by attacking a sit-in. Read more...
Spain: after Socialist Party victory - What Now?
Dave Stockton Mon, 06/05/2019 - 08:52With a turnout of more than 75 percent, one of the highest since 1982, the Spanish elections on April 28 saw the Partido Socialista Obrero Español PSOE – Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party, as the main Read more...
Ukraine: A land staring into the abyss
Paul Neumann, New International 237, Berlin, May 2019 Fri, 03/05/2019 - 07:07President Petro Poroshenko lost Ukraine's run-off election on 22 April, 2019, by a mile. Read more...
The European Elections and the Crisis of the EU
Martin Suchanek, League for the Fifth International, May 1, 2019 Wed, 01/05/2019 - 16:51Two decades after the meeting of its heads of state and government in Lisbon in March 2000, the European Union has become the "weakest link" among the great powers in the imperialist world order. Read more...
Israel: Netanyahu’s victory paves the way for annexation
Andy Yorke, Red Flag 27 Sat, 27/04/2019 - 07:36After elections on April 9, right wing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks set for a record fifth term. Read more...
Statement on the Sri Lanka bombings
International Secretariat, League for the Fifth International Fri, 26/04/2019 - 07:52Socialists everywhere should unconditionally condemn the recent bombings in Sri Lanka which, at the latest count, killed more than 200 entirely innocent people. Read more...
The Pulwana attack and the Kashmir National Liberation Movement
Shahzad Arshad, Revolutionary Socialist Movement Mon, 22/04/2019 - 10:40On February 14, 49 soldiers of the Indian paramilitary force, Central Reserve Police Force, CRPF, were killed in an attack on their column near Pulwama. Read more...
The Macedonian Referendum and its background
Frederik Haber Sun, 14/04/2019 - 19:16At the NATO security conference in Munich, the leaders of the Greek and newly renamed North- Macedonian governments were honoured for “setting aside” long standing differences over the name of the rep Read more...
Revolution in Sudan
International Secretariat, League for the Fifth International Thu, 11/04/2019 - 17:43After months of revolutionary upheaval and the siege of the military and presidential headquarters in Khartoum, hundreds of thousands celebrated the arrest of the brutal dictator Omar Hassan Ahmad al- Read more...
Brazil: Bolsonaro's pension reform - Resiste Brazil!
Markus Lehner, Neue Internationale 236, Berlin, April 2019 Thu, 11/04/2019 - 10:34Jair Bolsonaro has been President of Brazil since the beginning of the year. Read more...
Mass murder in Christchurch
International Secretariat of the League for the Fifth International Mon, 18/03/2019 - 03:54The terrorist killing of 50 Muslims and the wounding of a further 48, some critically, in mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand is the latest horrifying testimony to the rise of violent racism worldwid Read more...
The Oppression of Transgender People
International Executive Committee Sun, 17/03/2019 - 00:00Defining our terms Read more...
We will continue to fight for our rights!
Interview with Rachel Silva (Liga Socialista, Brazil) Tue, 12/03/2019 - 13:58Rachel Silva is a founding member of the "Liga Socialista" (LS, https://www.ligasocialista.com/), the Brazilian section of the League for the Fifth International, and a long-time activist of the teach Read more...
Heraus zum Internationalen Frauentag! Liga für die Fünfte Internationale, Infomail 1045, 7. März
GAM Infomail 1045, 7. März Sun, 10/03/2019 - 10:40Am 8. März, dem Internationalen Frauentag, werden Millionen von Frauen weltweit auf Demonstrationen und Massenveranstaltungen versammeln. Read more...