In one week, the heads of the world's 20 most powerful states will meet in Hamburg for the G20 summit. They meet in the midst of another round of global turmoil. Read more...

For two months, the right opposition in Venezuela has been mobilising against the Maduro government. Read more...

All out to Hamburg against the G20 summit – join the International Block! Read more...

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On July 7 and 8, leaders of the G20 nations will gather at their annual summit, this time in Hamburg, Germany. Read more...

Venezuela, home of the “socialism of the twenty first century” of charismatic President Hugo Chávez, has, under his successor Nicolás Maduro, experienced a spectacular economic and political car cras Read more...

The election for Labour Party leader is in full swing with huge rallies for Jeremy Corbyn: Liverpool leading with an 8-10,000 turnout and large meetings in Hull and Leeds. Read more...

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Taoiseach Enda Kenny has called a General Election for February 26. This will be the shortest election campaign in the history of the state, just three weeks. Read more...

Media coverage of the US presidential primaries is largely concentrated on the Republican Party. Read more...

Jeremy Corbyn’s runaway victory in the Labour leadership election (59.5 percent – 251, 417 votes on a 76.3 per cent turnout) has initiated something of a revolution within the British Labour Party. Read more...

When Syriza’s Alexis Tsipras resigned as Prime Minister, on August 20, he triggered a new general election, which will take place on 20 September. Read more...

We reproduce here the introduction to a collection of articles on Greece taken from Fifth International Journal 17, August 2015
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Alexis Tsipras and the leadership of Syriza have betrayed the mandate given to them twice by the Greek people. Scarcely a week after 61 per cent of voters said Oxi!-No! Read more...

No to blackmail. No to humiliation. No to austerity.

The determination of the Greek workers and youth to end austerity has been expressed in a defiant rejection of the Troika’s ultimatum. Read more...

Since the resolution below was adopted, there have been reports of continued attempts by Alexis Tsipras to continue negotiating with the EU  and IMF authorities, despite calling the referendum. Read more...

When Angela Merkel chose the venue for this year's G-7 summit, she had in mind the symbolism of the place. Read more...

Turkey’s Parliamentary elections on June 7 will take place against a background of sharpening political crisis in the region. Read more...

At the beginning of April, 2015, the US president, Barack Obama, signed a decree establishing a state of emergency with regard to Venezuela, because the country had become a threat to the USA. Read more...

“The director reminds all employees of the obligation of laicité (secularism) and neutrality. Read more...

Estamos en un súper-año electoral en España. En mayo se celebran elecciones locales en todo el país y en los próximos meses se celebran elecciones para varios gobiernos regionales. Read more...

The Left in Syriza: the key factor in further development Read more...

Spain: PSOE scrapes home in Andalusia - has it stopped the rise of Podemos? Read more...

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Despite the election of a government pledged to ease the intolerable burden of paying interest on Greece's €320bn foreign debt and to renegotiate the terms imposed by the Troika (the IMF, the ECB and Read more...

On 18 March, at least 20,000 people took part in blockades and demonstrations to mark the ceremonial opening of the new European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt. Read more...

A snap general election in Greece looks set to end in victory for radical left wing party Syriza, ending a six-year monopoly of pro-austerity governments across Europe. Read more...