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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...
March 8 - All out on International Women’s Day!
International Secretariat of the League for the Fifth International Tue, 05/03/2019 - 11:27March 8, International Women's Day, will see millions of women worldwide rally in demonstrations and mass meetings. Read more...
No to war between India and Pakistan!
Revolutionary Socialist Movement Sun, 03/03/2019 - 17:54Tensions between India and Pakistan reached a dramatic high-point at the end of February this year. Read more...
Brexit is breaking Britain's parties
Redflagonline Fri, 01/03/2019 - 12:11The 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...
Pakistan: Free Rawal Asad!
League for the Fifth International Thu, 21/02/2019 - 13:57Rawal 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...
Britain: After the Gang of Seven – now for the rest
KD Tait, Redflagonline Tue, 19/02/2019 - 09:28We 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...
Pakistan: Pashtun leader beaten to death in police provocation
League for the Fifth International Thu, 07/02/2019 - 17:32Muhammad Ibrahim Arman Luni is no longer with us. He was beaten to death by police on Saturday, February 2. Read more...
USA: Shutdown for the racist border wall
Tobi Hansen Thu, 24/01/2019 - 14:06Since 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...
France: On tactics towards the Gilets Jaunes
Martin Suchanek, GAM Infomail 1038, 18. Januar 2018 Thu, 24/01/2019 - 11:47The 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...
General strike will bring India to a halt
Martin Suchanek Tue, 08/01/2019 - 16:34A massive general strike for January 8 and 9 has been called by India's “National Convention of Workers”. Read more...
Pakistan: Three student leaders released, now release all those abducted!
League for the Fifth International Sat, 05/01/2019 - 22:09On 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: crisis resolved, for now
Peter Main Wed, 02/01/2019 - 20:25Sri 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...
Trump's Season’s Tweetings - no joy to the World
Dave Stockton Mon, 24/12/2018 - 15:29Donald 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...