On June 14, in Switzerland, around half a million people took part in the women's strike. Read more...

The arrest of the captain of the Sea Watch 3 triggered a storm of indignation throughout Europe. Read more...

The crisis of the European Union Read more...

As 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...

After 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...

With 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...

President Petro Poroshenko lost Ukraine's run-off election on 22 April, 2019, by a mile. Read more...

Two 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...

After elections on April 9, right wing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks set for a record fifth term. Read more...

Socialists everywhere should unconditionally condemn the recent bombings in Sri Lanka which, at the latest count, killed more than 200 entirely innocent people. Read more...

On 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...

At 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...

After 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...

Jair Bolsonaro has been President of Brazil since the beginning of the year. Read more...

The 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...

Defining our terms Read more...

Rachel 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...

Am 8. März, dem Internationalen Frauentag, werden Millionen von Frauen weltweit auf Demonstrationen und Massenveranstaltungen versammeln. Read more...

March 8, International Women's Day, will see millions of women worldwide rally in demonstrations and mass meetings. Read more...

Tensions between India and Pakistan reached a dramatic high-point at the end of February this year. Read more...

The impossibility of reconciling the interests of the dominant sectors of British capitalism with the vote to leave the EU has brought both the country’s main political parties to the brink of an exis Read more...

Rawal Asad, a Pakistani student leader from Government Emerson College in Multan and an activist of the “Progressive Youth Alliance”, PYA, was arrested on February 12 under the false accusation of sed Read more...

We welcome, without a shred of regret, the resignation of the seven former Labour MPs, who will be spending the weeks and months ahead applying the finishing touches to their political obituaries. Read more...

Muhammad Ibrahim Arman Luni is no longer with us. He was beaten to death by police on Saturday, February 2. Read more...

Since December 22, 800,000 US government employees have not received their pay cheques. Just over half have had to continue working without wages, effectively performing forced labor. Read more...

The Gilets Jaunes (yellow vests) are spreading around Europe and gaining support and sympathy from a wide variety of political forces, from the extreme right to the radical left. Read more...

A massive general strike for January 8 and 9 has been called by India's “National Convention of Workers”. Read more...

On January 3, members of the Balochistan Students' Organisation and the families of Zareef Rind, Changez Baloch and Aurangzaib Baloch could breathe a sigh of relief, as the three leaders of the BSO we Read more...

Sri Lanka's constitutional crisis, during which there appeared to be two governments at one point and no government at all at another, has been resolved, at least formally. Read more...

Donald Trump’s foreign policy descends ever deeper into farce. Or so it could be described, were its consequences not likely to prove extremely tragic for many people in the Middle East. Read more...