Analysis by Country
Britain: Relaxing the Lockdown? We’ll need workers' control
Dave Stockton redflagonline.org May 7, 2020 Wed, 13/05/2020 - 15:22Boris Johnson is due to announce the relaxation of the Covid-19 “lockdown” on Sunday. The Times reports ministers are worried there is a danger workers will become “addicted to it”. Read more...
Germany: May Day, a first balance sheet
Martin Suchanek, GAM Infomail 1102, 5 May 2020 Wed, 13/05/2020 - 15:17First of all, the positive part of the political balance: Despite a nationwide ban on demonstrations, despite the restrictions on demonstrations to 20-50 people depending on the federal state, thousan Read more...
Hungary: Orban used pandemic to attack trans rights
Rebecca Anderson, reflagonline Wed, 06/05/2020 - 19:52ON 30 March Hungary’s parliament granted Viktor Orban power to rule by decree for an indefinite period. Read more...
Pakistan: Justice for Arif Wazir, Sajid Hussain! Find Shahab Rehmat now!
International Secretariat, League for the Fifth International Sun, 03/05/2020 - 08:47On May 1, news broke that the body of the missing Baloch journalist, Sajid Hussain, 39, had been recovered from a river in Sweden. Read more...
The Grand Reopening - Profit and Death in the USA
Marcus Otono Sat, 25/04/2020 - 13:02We've seen it coming for weeks now: actually for months if you count the initial denigration of the threat of the coronavirus and Covid 19 for the US by the Trump administration. Read more...
USA: Vote for the lesser evil? NO – form a working class party!
Christian Gebhardt Fri, 24/04/2020 - 12:42The timing of Bernie Sanders' decision to back Joe Biden, calling him “a very decent man”, may seem strange, coming at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic when the need for Medicare for All was never Read more...
USA: They Got Bailed Out – Again!
Marcus Otono, Workers Power US Thu, 16/04/2020 - 10:49So much of capitalism in crisis is like the movie Groundhog Day. Read more...
UK: Keir Starmer’s election: the end of the Corbyn revolution
Red Flag Editorial Board, April 15, 2020 Wed, 15/04/2020 - 10:13The election of Keir Starmer as Labour leader, with 56.2% of the vote, represents a clear victory for the right in the party. Read more...