War
Condemn Assad and Putin’s war crimes in Idlib
International Secretariat of the League for the Fifth International, 23.10.2017 Sun, 04/02/2018 - 09:38The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports that Bashar al-Assad’s warplanes, artillery and barrel bombing helicopters have launched a major assault on the last extensive rebel-held region of Idli Read more...
Turkey's offensive against Afrin - a risk too far?
Svenja Spunck, GAM Infomail 983 Thu, 01/02/2018 - 19:53The autonomous Kurdish region of Rojava in northern Syria is as much a thorn in the side of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government as the pro-Kurdish party, the HDP, in Turkey itself. Read more...
Hands off Afrin! Solidarity with the Kurds!
Martin Suchanek, Neue Internationale No 226, Berlin Mon, 22/01/2018 - 22:11"Operation Olive Branch", the Turkish incursion into the Kurdish held territory of Afrin, has been running since January 20th. Read more...
Looking Back on 2017 and forward to 2018
International Secretariat of the League for the Fifth International, 23.10.2017 Sun, 31/12/2017 - 20:05Two figures tower over 2017; Donald Trump inaugurated as the 45th President of the USA in January with his pledge to “Make America Great Again” and Xi Jinping at the Communist Party of China’s 19th Co Read more...
Labour, anti-imperialism and the war in Yemen
KD Tait Thu, 07/12/2017 - 13:51Jeremy Corbyn has condemned the UK’s support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen, which has plunged the region’s poorest nation into a humanitarian crisis. Read more...
Lebanese intrigue opens new front in regional power struggle
Marcus Halaby, redflagonline, Nov 2017 Tue, 21/11/2017 - 18:17THE SURPRISE resignation of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, announced from the Saudi capital Riyadh on 4 November, threatens to engulf yet another state in a vicious struggle for regional suprema Read more...
Referendum in Kurdistan - For the right of self-determination
Svenja Spunck, Neue Internationale No 224 Mon, 13/11/2017 - 10:30After the Iraqi army and the Shia militia Hashd al-Shaabi recaptured the areas around Kirkuk that have been controlled by Kurdish forces since 2014, Barzani's will to enforce the result of the indepen Read more...
Declaración sobre los atentados terroristas de Barcelona / Cambrils
Secretariado Internacional de la Liga por la Quinta Internacional, Viernes 18/08/2017 Sat, 19/08/2017 - 08:25Los atentados del 17 de agosto, en los que un vehículo arrolló a multitud de personas, muchas de ellas turistas, que paseaban por las famosas Ramblas de Barcelona, matando a 13 personas e hiriendo a Read more...
Statement on the Barcelona /Cambrils Terrorist Attacks
International Secretariat of the League for the Fifth International Fri, 18/08/2017 - 12:40The attacks on August 17, in which a vehicle ploughed into crowds of people, many of them tourists, strolling along the famous Las Ramblas in Barcelona, killing 13 people and injuring more than 100, a Read more...
The Threat of another Korean War
Dave Stockton Sat, 12/08/2017 - 19:48US President Donald Trump, so far a spectacular failure in his domestic policies, is compensating for this by exercising his power as the Commander in Chief of the most powerful nation in the world. Read more...
Trump’s aggressions against Iran provoke Saudi-Qatar tensions
Marcus Halaby, Red Flag 14, June 2017 Wed, 21/06/2017 - 18:10US President Donald Trump’s 20 May visit to Saudi Arabia, for a summit of the six Gulf Arab states and 49 other Arab and Muslim-majority countries, was very pleasing to the corrupt rulers of the deser Read more...
London Bridge: Islamic State attacks are bitter fruit of UK imperialism’s ‘war on terror’.
Red Flag Editorial Board, June 6, 2017 Tue, 06/06/2017 - 11:33Seven people were killed and dozens more injured in the terrorist attack that targeted ordinary people enjoying Saturday evening around London Bridge and Borough Market. Read more...
Corbyn says “war on terror” has failed after Manchester atrocity.
Dave Stockton Tue, 30/05/2017 - 13:02In the week or so between the leaking of Labour’s Manifesto and the Manchester terrorist attack, Labour began to close the gap in the opinion polls. Read more...
Manchester bombing: War on Terror has turned all civilians into targets
Red Flag Editorial Board, May 23, 2017 Thu, 25/05/2017 - 08:58At least 22 people, including young children, have been killed and 59 injured in a suicide bombing which targeted fans leaving a concert at Manchester’s Arena on Monday night. Read more...
Pakistan: tensions revealed over state sponsored terrorism
Azad Hazeem Tue, 16/05/2017 - 12:56On October 6, Dawn, one of Pakistan’s biggest English language newspapers, ran a story that has thrown the leaders of both the civilian government and the military into turmoil ever since. Read more...
US military aggression: is Trump risking war?
Michael Maerzen, Neue Internationale No 219, May 2017 Mon, 08/05/2017 - 11:42It did not take long for Donald Trump to play the strong man internationally. Read more...
Syrian missile attack: Trump plays with fire
International Secretariat of the League for the Fifth International Fri, 07/04/2017 - 16:38The US attack on a Syrian airbase near Homs marked a dangerous and dramatic escalation of the conflict in that country. Read more...
Resolution on Syria
International Executive Committee, League for the Fifth International Thu, 02/03/2017 - 14:29The relentless bombardment and starvation of the civilian population of eastern Aleppo by the forces of Bashar al Assad, Russia, Iran and the Lebanese Hezbollah, rightly aroused public revulsion, espe Read more...
Free all activists – Pakistan’s war against civil society
Hassan Raza Fri, 20/01/2017 - 09:37Since January 4, five well known bloggers and social media activists have gone missing in Pakistan. Read more...
As siege of Aleppo ends, painful lessons must be learned
Marcus Halaby, updated from Red Flag No. 9 Fri, 16/12/2016 - 10:00THE SIEGE of Aleppo has entered its final hours. Read more...
Pakistan and India’s call to arms
Hassan Raza Tue, 18/10/2016 - 19:01Since the killing of Burhan Wani (see: http://www.fifthinternational.org/content/kashmir-killing-sparks-mass-op... ) there has been a severe crack down by the Indian state on th Read more...
Turkey; a regime on the way to Bonapartism
Svenja Spunck Wed, 12/10/2016 - 15:01Although, in an interview with Germany's public broadcaster, ARD, Angela Merkel ducked the question, “how democratic is Turkey now?”, the answer has been clear for a long time: the political strength Read more...
Statement on the Assault on Eastern Aleppo
International Secretariat of the League for the Fifth International Fri, 30/09/2016 - 12:35The brutal attack on Eastern Aleppo by Russian and Syrian warplanes, bombing with bunker buster, incendiary and barrel bombs, has already killed hundreds of civilians, creating a landscape many have l Read more...
Pakistan: Sharif turns against refugees
Azad Hazeem Thu, 29/09/2016 - 09:09When the international media talk about “the refugee crisis” they generally mean the situation in Europe, ignoring the plight of millions across a vast area stretching from the Atlantic to the Himalay Read more...
Quetta bombing aimed at Baluchistan nationalist movement
Hassan Raza Fri, 19/08/2016 - 12:32On August 8, a suicide bombing killed at least 110 and injured a further 200 at a state-run hospital in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan. Read more...
Syria: End the Siege of Aleppo – Russian and Nato forces out of Syria and the Middle East
Dave Stockton Sun, 14/08/2016 - 07:13Since July 7, Syria’s largest city, Aleppo, has witnessed intense fighting after Assad regime forces and their Lebanese and Russian allies cut off the eastern part of the city, with a population of 25 Read more...
EU: The Khartoum Process – holding camps as developmental aid
Christian Gebhardt, Neue Internationale 211, Juli/August 16 Wed, 10/08/2016 - 16:19On November 28, 2014, representatives from 58 European and African countries met to adopt the "Khartoum Process". Read more...
Great powers fiddle while Syria burns
Marcus Halaby Red Flag No 5 Tue, 31/05/2016 - 16:28Syrians in the rebel-held “liberated zones” marked the beginning of the US and Russian-brokered “cessation of hostilities” by coming out onto the streets in their tens of thousands, with anti-Assad ra Read more...
Nato powers plot new Libya role
K D Tait, Red Flag No 5 Sun, 29/05/2016 - 17:33Five years after the NATO-led intervention into the revolutionary civil war that ended in the overthrow of dictator Muammar Gaddafi, Western powers are preparing to send ground troops into Libya. Read more...
“The parliament is yours, the streets are ours” Let’s take them!
Svenja Spunck, GAM Infomail 882, Berlin 23.5.16 Tue, 24/05/2016 - 08:52The war on the Kurds in Turkey is not only a business of bombs and tanks, it is also a dirty bureaucratic process. Read more...