Analysis by Country
Sri Lanka: Sinhala chauvinists strengthen their grip
Peter Main Wed, 19/08/2020 - 09:35Sri Lanka's general election, held on August 5, gave a landslide victory to the Sri Lanka Freedom Alliance, the electoral bloc dominated by the President, Gotabhaya Rajapakse and his brother, Mahinda Read more...
Belarus: From rigged elections to open revolt
Urte March Tue, 18/08/2020 - 11:31The uprising in Belarus has reached a decisive point, as President Alexander Lukashenko told workers demanding his resignation and democratic elections, “as long as you don’t kill me, there won’t be a Read more...
Bolivia: The fight for democracy is the struggle for revolution!
Dave Stockton Wed, 12/08/2020 - 13:52A wave of strikes and blockades, called by the trade union federation, COB, and an alliance of peasant and indigenous organisations has paralysed Bolivia after the Supreme Electoral Court, TSE, announ Read more...
Lebanon: The Revolution has begun
Dilara Lorin, Martin Suchanek Mon, 10/08/2020 - 09:05The explosion of 2750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate in the port of Beirut on August 4, which killed 154 people and injured over 5,000, left the city in devastation. Read more...
Germany: The second wave of the corona-sceptics?
Wilhelm Schulz, GAM Infomail 1113, 3, August 2020 Fri, 07/08/2020 - 15:05It was an eerie sight: up to 30,000 corona "sceptics" and direct deniers of the pandemic demonstrating in Berlin on August 1. Read more...
Pakistan: Find Amin Now! Internationalist solidarity with missing IMT comrade
International Secretariat, League for the Fifth International Wed, 29/07/2020 - 15:47We have received deeply concerning reports about the enforced disappearance of Muhammad Amin, a 26-year-old socialist activist and member of the International Marxist Tendency’s Pakistan section. Read more...
The Pandemic, the crisis and the struggle of the Indian working class
Irfan Khan Tue, 28/07/2020 - 08:25In India, almost one and a half million people have been infected by the coronavirus by the end of July. On 26.7. Read more...
Germany: Government pulling out of a nosedive ?
Jürgen Roth; neue Internationale 248, Juli/August 2020 Sat, 25/07/2020 - 15:11A crisis was not unexpected in 2020. Many Marxists, including us, had predicted it long before the Corona pandemic, although not its historical extent. Read more...