National Sections of the L5I:

Anti-Capitalism

¿Se puede ganar a Podemos para la política de clases?

Podemos, la expresión de lo que se ha denominado "la nueva política" en España, acaba de celebrar su primera Asamblea ciudadana; la apertura de un largo proceso de un mes de duración para decidir sobr Read more...

Podemos: Iglesias tames opposition and trims his programme

Podemos has become the new darling of the left, claiming to be “doing politics differently”, but after its first conference Christian Gebhardt asks if it can live up to the hype Read more...

EU Parliamentary elections: Europe polarised

Bosnia: The beginning of a new working class revolution?

The Left Party, DIE LINKE, in Germany

The Left Party (DIE LINKE) in Germany was founded in 2005 as a fusion of the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS), the successor party to the former ruling stalinist party of the German Democratic Repu Read more...

The French Parti de Gauche: Old Wine in a New Bottle

The Parti de gauche (PdG), founded by Jean-Luc Mélenchon in 2008, aims to unite all the forces to the left of the social-democratic Socialist Party. Read more...

That is what bourgeois democracy looks like

At the Blockupy demonstration in Frankfurt on June 1, the right to demonstrate was reduced to a farce. Read more...

Berlin's Revolutionary May Day - 20,000 march against capitalism and crisis

This year’s “revolutionary May Day” was a remarkable political event in Berlin and a huge political success. Read more...

Venezuelan election: See off Capriles and Kerry’s grab for power

Venezuela has been plunged into violence by supporters of the defeated presidential candidate, Henrique Capriles, who has refused to recognise the narrow victory of Chavez’s successor, Nicolás Maduro. Read more...

Declaration of the Ninth Congress of the League for the Fifth International

The League for the Fifth International recently held its Ninth Congress in Colombo, Sri Lanka. At its conclusion, the Congress issued the following declaration. Read more...

One Solution - Global Revolution

One Solution - Global Revolution Read more...

Obituary: Hugo Chavez Frias, 1954-2013

Hugo Rafael Chavez Frías, President of Venezuela, finally succumbed to cancer at 4.25 local time on March 5, 2013. Read more...

Italian Elections 2013 - a shock for Europe’s capitalists – and the Left

When news of the results of the Italian general election of 24-25 February hit world markets, the first response was one of shock. Read more...

Unite the Resistance - Forward to a Socialist Europe

Statement to Florence 10+10 from the League for the Fifth International Read more...

French workers invite themselves into the presidential campaign

Marc Lasalle and Dave Stockton Read more...

Occupy:“New York’s finest” storm Freedom Square

The New York Police attacked Occupy Wall Street, clearing the park and arresting many protesters in a clampdown aimed at destroying the Occupy movement, writes Dave Stockton Read more...

2011 - A year of mass struggle and revolutions

It is only February and already this year has seen mass protests and revolutionary movements bring down governments, defying dictators and the armed thugs that protect them. 2011 could be ‘one of those years’ like 1968 where the whole world seems to erupt in resistance to capitalism and oppression. Read more...

The European Social Forum staring into an abyss

The ESF in Istanbul failed to provide a lead in the coming struggles against the crisis, report Martin Suchanek and Dave Stockton

Photos of the event are online here Read more...

The end of the decade and the struggles ahead

Simon Hardy reviews the last decade and looks forward to revolutionary upheavals in the coming years Read more...

Lenin and the theory of imperialism

More than half a million children have died in Iraq since 1990 as a result of United Nations' sanctions. Millions are dying in Africa because of a lack of drugs to fight AIDS. Pro-independence supporters are shot dead in the streets in East Timor with arms sold to Indonesia under New Labour's ethical foreign policy. This is the world at the end of the twentieth century. Read more...

EPA statement: We won't pay for their wars and their crisis! Organise the resistance Europe wide!

Draft call proposed to the European Preparatory Assembly/Assembly of Social Movements by the League for the Fifth International Read more...

World Social Forum meets in Brazil

At the same time that businessmen and bankers were crying on each others' shoulders at the World Economic Forum (WEF), over 100,000 activists have gathered together in the Amazonian city of Belem, Brazil for the ninth World Social Forum (WSF). Under the often repeated slogan of "Another World is Possible", the WSF 2009 is expected to counter the world economic crisis with alternative development models. Read more...

Appeal of the Assembly of Social Movements of the European Social Forum

We do not want to pay for their crisis Read more...

L5I Statement to the EPA in Istanbul

League for the Fifth International 20-11-08, Read more...

The EU reform treaty: what it is and how to fight it

The following is an abridged translation of a pamphlet published by the Austrian section of the League for the Fifth International. Read more...

European Social Forum in Sweden: a lost opportunity

The fifth meeting of the European Social Forum was held in Malmo, Sweden in September. Participants from various social movements, a number of left wing groups and NGOs all gathered together in around 280 seminars and workshops, along with a large number of cultural activities. Alongside these meetings, there was a demonstration with 10-15,000 participants on Saturday, and a number of smaller demonstrations and protests. Read more...

G8: the criminals gather

The biggest eight thieves and warmongers on the planet will meet this month at their annual summit to divide up the world's wealth. Read more...

ESF: forum of resistance?

As the programme for a bosses' Europe  the European Constitution  is defeated yet again in another referendum, the movement for another Europe is building its forces to meet at the European Social Forum in Malmo is September. Read more...

New anticapitalist party: on what basis and on what programme?

Over a year ago, when the LCR declared that a new anticapitalist party was necessity it was greeted with widespread interest both in France and more widely in Europe. The LCR's 17th Congress, meeting from 24 to 27 January, decided to launch an initiative for the creation of a 'new anti-capitalist party'. The LCR announced this would involve a constituent process, culminating in the founding of a new party by the end of this year. The statement affirmed: Read more...

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