National Sections of the L5I:

Fascism

Brazil: The failed coup - a warning to the working class

Thousands of supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro stormed the Congress, the Supreme Court and the Presidential Palace in the federal capital Brasilia on 8 January. Read more...

Germany: Right-wing coup plotters: A portent of things to come?

On 7 December, the German Federal Public Prosecutor's Office mobilised 3,000 police officers and special forces in the largest anti-terrorist operation in the history of the Federal Republic. Read more...

Between the rounds of Brazil’s presidential election

Against the run of the country’s opinion polls, which showed Lula da Silva might win outright in the first round of Brazil’s presidential election on October 2, the result was 47.9 percent for Lula an Read more...

Elections in Brazil - the struggle enters a new stage

The Brazilian economy has been in crisis for almost a decade. This formerly "emerging market" is plagued by stagnation, inflation, and unemployment. Read more...

Freedom convoys: Canada's far-right roadshow

The "anti-vax" movement took a new turn early this year with the launch of the freedom convoy in Canada, sparked by a new mandate law requiring unvaccinated truckers (less than 15 per cent) to quarant Read more...

Italy: fascists direct covid anger against trade unions

ON SATURDAY 16 October tens of thousands attended an anti-fascist demonstration in Rome, called by the CGIL trade union, in response to a fascist attack on the union’s headquarters the previous week. Read more...

France: Anti health pass demonstrations: no-pass or no-vax?

Every Saturday, from mid-July to the end of August, about 200,000 people protested in France against the introduction of a health pass. Read more...

Brazil: the right wing threat and how to fight it

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Brazil - like a powder keg

What we are witnessing in Brazil today is the continuation of the 2016 coup that overthrew President Dilma Rousseff, Workers' Party, PT. Read more...

Pakistan: Clerical fascism rears its ugly head again

The forces of clerical fascism, embodied by the Tehreek Labbaik Pakistan, TLP, have asserted their growing strength with mass demonstrations across Pakistan. Read more...

Austria: Corona demonstrations: Fascist marches or harmless confusion?

In recent weeks, Austria has seen an upswing in the mobilization of “Corona-sceptics”. Read more...

Statement on Trump’s fascist provocation

The storming of the US Capitol by a mob of fascists, at the instigation of Donald Trump, was an abortive attempt by the cornered but still vicious President to coerce the Congress (and the Vice Presid Read more...

Louisville Grand Jury decides Black Lives do not Matter

Once again, protests against police racism have erupted across the nation. Read more...

Germany: Crisis, pandemic and the looming flood of corona deniers

The second wave of corona deniers, ranging from Querdenken 711 ("Lateral Thinking 711") to the Alternative fuer Deutschland, AfD and various right-wing groups to the Reich Citizens, the Identitarian M Read more...

USA: Kenosha shootings show need for self defence

In Kenosha, Wisconsin, at 5.00 pm. on Sunday, 23 August, Jacob Blake was shot seven times in the back whilst getting into his car, by a police officer, Rusten Sheskey. Read more...

Germany: The second wave of the corona-sceptics?

It was an eerie sight: up to 30,000 corona "sceptics" and direct deniers of the pandemic demonstrating in Berlin on August 1. Read more...

USA: Trump toys with a Police State

For the last ten days, Donald Trump has been trialling a presidential coup d’etat, starting in Portland, Oregon but now being extended to Chicago. Read more...

The world health crisis and its unfolding in Brazil

The health crisis that ravages the world due to COVID-19 has exposed all the fragility of the capitalist system. Read more...

India: the Current Political Movement against CAA and NRC

Our thanks to our guest writer, Mira Ghaib, in Delhi, for this contribution on the situation in India.

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India: Modi, Master of the Pogroms

On the night of 23 February, whilst Donald Trump and Narendra Modi were engaged in mutual admiration in Ahmedabad, the capital of Modi’s home state of Gujarat, Muslims in Delhi were subjected to the f Read more...

Germany: Right extremist terror in Hanau

Nine lives were lost in the most recent extreme right-wing terrorist attack in Germany. Read more...

Germany: Tragedy and farce in Thuringia

"Hegel remarks somewhere that all facts and personages of great importance in world history occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce." Read more...

Pakistan: How to deal with the foot soldiers of campus censorship and violence?

Recently, a number of mainstream Pakistani leftist leaders have publicly shown an openness towards two mainstream right-wing Islamist forces. Read more...

Thuringia after the election: where now for the Left Party?

Thuringia marked the low point of the recent East German state elections. Read more...

Germany: Antisemitic attack in Halle

For a long time, the growth of Right wing terrorism in Germany has been downplayed or even denied outright. On Wednesday, October 9, it once again showed the reality of its bloody, inhuman face. Read more...

El Paso: White supremacists kill again

On August 3, 22 people were killed and 24 injured when the 21 year old white supremacist Patrick Crusius targeted an El Paso Walmart popular with shoppers from a Mexican background. Read more...

Statement on the Sri Lanka bombings

Socialists everywhere should unconditionally condemn the recent bombings in Sri Lanka which, at the latest count, killed more than 200 entirely innocent people. Read more...

Mass murder in Christchurch

The terrorist killing of 50 Muslims and the wounding of a further 48, some critically, in mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand is the latest horrifying testimony to the rise of violent racism worldwid Read more...

We will continue to fight for our rights!

Rachel Silva is a founding member of the "Liga Socialista" (LS, https://www.ligasocialista.com/), the Brazilian section of the League for the Fifth International, and a long-time activist of the teach Read more...

France: On tactics towards the Gilets Jaunes

The Gilets Jaunes (yellow vests) are spreading around Europe and gaining support and sympathy from a wide variety of political forces, from the extreme right to the radical left. Read more...

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