National Sections of the L5I:

Trade Unions

Tesla strike in Sweden: organise for victory and control of the unions!

For decades, the unions of the LO (Landsorganisationen i Sverige) have been reluctant to call for strikes and other industrial action. Read more...

Argentina: Rightward shift in the primaries

The victory of the right-wing, ultra-liberal Javier Milei in the primary elections on 13 August is tantamount to a political earthquake. Read more...

France: Is Macron driving through his pension reform?

Regardless of reverses and record unpopularity, President Macron is pushing through the raising of the retirement age from 62 to 64 years - against the resistance of wage earners, trade unions and you Read more...

Spain: Mass protests against deterioration of the health system

A wave of protests by doctors, nurses and their supporters is developing in Spain against the deliberate run down of the public healthcare system. Read more...

French battle over pensions becomes struggle for democracy

General strike is the solution!

Down with Macron and the antidemocratic Fifth Republic! Read more...

Unite women’s struggles with those of the working class and the oppressed!

Women have been in the forefront of working class and democratic struggles over the last year. Read more...

France: millions march against pensions robbery

The numbers speak for themselves. More than two million workers marched on 19 January against President Emmanuel Macron’s latest attempt to reform the pension system. Read more...

France: two million march—where next?

Biden bans railroad strike

As railworkers in Britain face Tory threats to make their strikes ineffective by ‘minimum service’ laws, 115,000 US freight railworkers have just had their strike vote for decent working conditions ‘s Read more...

Britain’s Winter of Discontent

Britain is facing a “winter of discontent” in the shape of the biggest wave of strikes for many years. Read more...

French workers on the offensive

For almost a year, the French workers have mobilised in a series of strikes across the country which gained momentum after the summer. Read more...

Britain’s strike heatwave

Britain is having a record hot summer - not just in terms of the 30-40 degree temperatures that have turned normally green lawns and pastures into brown scrublands – but in terms of a “hot summer” of Read more...

Italy: Draghi falls, the far right rises

On July 21, Italy’s prime minister, Mario Draghi, resigned for the second time in one week, after key parts of his national unity coalition; the populist Five Star Movement, M5S, Matteo Salvini’s far- Read more...

UK: Rail workers — escalate to win!

Britain's railway network was twice brought to a standstill on June 21 and 23 as 40,000 rail workers walked out in the first national strike for 30 years. Read more...

UK: After the TUC demo: coordinate strikes to beat inflation

On Saturday 18 June, tens of thousands of people marched through central London to demand action to fight the growing cost of living crisis. Read more...

Sri Lanka: For a Constituent Assembly!

"Rajapaksa is sending his thugs to kill us", that was the one line message sent to the League by a supporter at the protest camp on Galle Face Green in Colombo on May 9. Read more...

Amazon Staten Island – a victory for rank-and-file organizing

April 1, 2022, witnessed one of the most striking victories for US Labor in quite a time. Read more...

Germany: DGB on May Day - Protests against national closing of ranks

203,500 people took part in the trade unions' demonstrations and rallies on 1 May 2022, according to the DGB. Read more...

France's presidential election: No to racism, No to imperialism, Prepare the fight!

The winner of the presidential election in France is effectively a foregone conclusion. Read more...

Inflation: make the bosses pay!

Inflation is back in the headlines. Even Tory MPs are raising the ‘cost of living crisis’ in the House of Commons. Read more...

USA: Despite the Pandemic – The Working Class Awakens

Something is happening with the US working class despite the resurgence of the pandemic with the Omicron wave. They are awakening to militancy. Read more...

South Africa: 155,000 NUMSA steelworkers on indefinite strike

A mass strike has halted steel production in South Africa since 5 October. Read more...

Germany: After the strike is before the strike!

A 48-hour strike on Germany's railways has highlighted several key issues, and not just for railway workers. Read more...

UK: Kill the Bill!

As the second covid lockdown draws to a close, social tensions are rising. Read more...

USA: Support Bessemer workers - and imitate them

A labour organising drive in the town of Bessemer, Alabama, (population 26,680) has caught the attention of trade unionists and socialists worldwide. The reason? Read more...

Solidarity with the General Strike in India

Since the morning of November 26, a massive general strike is sweeping across India. Trade Unions expect up to 250 million participants. Read more...

Political crisis in Sweden: Strike action is the way forward

Ever since a general election in September 2018 produced a hung parliament, Sweden has limped from one near-crisis to the next. Read more...

Bolivia: The fight for democracy is the struggle for revolution!

A wave of strikes and blockades, called by the trade union federation, COB, and an alliance of peasant and indigenous organisations has paralysed Bolivia after the Supreme Electoral Court, TSE, announ Read more...

Pakistan: From workers’ protests to workers’ revolt

Protests were held across Pakistan on Tuesday, May 19 under the auspices of the Workers' Solidarity Committee, WSC. The protesters included political activists, students and women. Read more...

Britain: Relaxing the Lockdown? We’ll need workers' control

Boris 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...

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