Revolution
May Day statement of the League for the Fifth International
International Secretariat Thu, 30/04/2020 - 11:20The impending catastrophe and how to fight it
We will not pay for the pandemic! We will not pay for the crisis! Read more...
Ireland: The Sinn Féin surge
Dara O’Coghaidhin Tue, 18/02/2020 - 09:02Ireland’s 7 February election delivered a stunning result for Sinn Féin. Read more...
ایران: ارتجاع در مقابل خیزش توده
Martin Suchanek Mon, 20/01/2020 - 11:26ایران: ارتجاع در مقابل خیزش توده Read more...
Bolivia: The November coup - and how to reverse it
KD Tait, Red Flag 33, January, 2020 Sat, 18/01/2020 - 13:40Bolivia’s first indigenous president, Evo Morales, and his Vice President, Alvaro García Linera, were overthrown in a coup, which culminated on 10 November 2019. Read more...
The November Coup in Bolivia and how to reverse it
KD Tait, Red Flag 33, January 2020 Tue, 14/01/2020 - 12:09Bolivia’s first indigenous president, Evo Morales, and his Vice President, Alvaro García Linera, were overthrown in a coup, which culminated on 10 November 2019. Read more...
Iran: Solidarity with the mass uprising
Martin Suchanek Sun, 24/11/2019 - 19:54For several days now, the internet and social media have effectively been closed down in Iran. Read more...
Chile: Military unleashed on peaceful protesters
Chris Clough, Red Flag 32, November, 2019 Tue, 05/11/2019 - 11:47Chile joins a growing list of countries currently experiencing a mass revolt for a better world, free of corruption, poverty and austerity. Read more...
Is this the long overdue Iraqi Spring?
Dave Stockton, Redflagonline October 24, 2019 Sun, 03/11/2019 - 18:39Iraq is once again the scene of massive protests. In the capital and in southern cities thousands-strong demonstrations have been dispersed with tear gas, and police snipers using live ammunition. Read more...
Israel: Elections further shatter two state solution
Robert Teller, Neue Internationale 241, October 2019 Fri, 04/10/2019 - 09:56Benjamin Netanyahu called the 17 September Knesset election in the hope that it would give him the majority he needed to create a new coalition and remain prime minister. Read more...
Syriza pays the price of betrayal
Dave Stockton Fri, 19/07/2019 - 17:01The Coalition of the Radical Left, Syriza, has been thrown out of office after just over four years in government. Read more...
European Action Programme
International Secretariat, League for the Fifth International Wed, 05/06/2019 - 20:12The crisis of the European Union Read more...
Sudan: Counterrevolution strikes back, supported by the Egyptian Dictator and the Saudi Absolute Monarch
International Secretariat, League for the Fifth International Tue, 04/06/2019 - 17:28The bloodshed in Khartoum on Monday, June 3, proves beyond a shadow of doubt that elementary democratic rights are intolerable to the regimes in most Middle Eastern and North African states. Read more...
China: Tiananmen, 30 years on
Peter Main, Red Flag 28, June 2019 Sun, 02/06/2019 - 11:05100 years of the Chinese revolution
Peter Main, Red Flag 27, May 2019 Sat, 04/05/2019 - 07:23On 4 May, 1919, in Beijing, some 3,000 students demonstrated outside the home of the Minister of Communications, a notoriously pro-Japanese figure. Read more...
Bouteflika forced out, but the regime remains
Dave Stockton Red Flag 27 Sun, 28/04/2019 - 08:26On 2 April, six weeks of mass demonstrations, culminating in a general strike, finally forced the resignation of Algeria's 82 year-old president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika. Read more...
Revolution in Sudan
International Secretariat, League for the Fifth International Thu, 11/04/2019 - 17:43After months of revolutionary upheaval and the siege of the military and presidential headquarters in Khartoum, hundreds of thousands celebrated the arrest of the brutal dictator Omar Hassan Ahmad al- Read more...
Algeria’s Revolutionary Crisis
Dave Stockton Sun, 31/03/2019 - 17:06Algeria's 82-year-old president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, in office for two decades, has been forced by weeks of protests and a general strike to abandon standing for a fifth term in elections which were Read more...
100 Years since Germany's November Revolution
Tobi Hansen, Neue Internationale 230, November 2018 Tue, 20/11/2018 - 11:33Part II The Road to Defeat
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Mexico - can AMLO’s landslide open the doors to revolution?
Dave Stockton Fri, 06/07/2018 - 12:11The landslide victory on July 1 of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, known as AMLO for short, with over 24 million votes and 53 percent of the vote, was a humiliation for the traditional parties of the cor Read more...
Prague 68: Revolution and Counter Revolution
Dave Stockton, Red Flag 20, June 2018 Fri, 15/06/2018 - 19:141968 was one of history’s “mad years” like 1848, 1917-18, 1989 and, most recently, 2011. It was a time when the eruption of revolts in one country quickly stimulated upheavals in others. Read more...
May '68: "Everything was possible"
Emile Gallet, Red Flag No 19, May 2018 Sat, 26/05/2018 - 10:39Fifty years ago this month, France was rocked by the biggest general strike in European history. Read more...
Marx at 200
Martin Suchanek, Neue Internationale 228, Mai 2018 Mon, 07/05/2018 - 16:28Anniversaries never serve as a mere recollection of a person's historical work. Read more...
Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht - heroes of the revolution
Dave Stockton Sun, 14/01/2018 - 12:56Ninety nine years ago, on the night of 15 January 1919, two of the greatest revolutionary socialists in history, Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, were brutally murdered by right-wing soldiers actin Read more...
Solidarity with the movement in Iran! No to imperialist interference!
Martin Suchanek, Gruppe ArbeiterInnenmacht, Berlin Tue, 09/01/2018 - 11:14"Bread, work, freedom!" Since December 28, a new movement of workers, the poor, the youth and impoverished sections of the petty bourgeoisie has been gathering in Iran against the dictatorship of the Read more...
Defeat Rajoy’s Constitutional Coup d’Etat
International Secretariat of the League for the Fifth International Thu, 12/10/2017 - 13:06The right wing Madrid government of Mariano Rajoy has responded to the Catalan separatists’ declaration of independence by beginning the process of invoking Article 155 of the Spanish Constitution, wh Read more...
Venezuela: 21st century socialism faces 20th century coup
KD Tait, Red Flag 15, September 2017 Sun, 17/09/2017 - 15:23The embattled Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, is facing a months long attempt by opposition forces to overthrow his United Socialist Party, PSUV, government. Read more...
Venezuela: Constituent Assembly opens new chapter
Martin Suchanek Wed, 09/08/2017 - 14:53The convening of a new Constituent Assembly has opened the latest, and possibly decisive, chapter in Venezuela's political crisis. Read more...
Lenin's April Theses: The renewal of Bolshevism
Dave Stockton, Red Flag 12, April 2017 Wed, 12/04/2017 - 10:50Lenin’s April Theses, at 479 words one of the shortest of his major works, represented a qualitative advance in his strategic thinking, effected a transformation of the Bolshevik Party’s programme and Read more...
Fidel Castro, 1926-2016
Dave Stockton Sun, 27/11/2016 - 11:11Fidel Castro, one of the leaders of the Cuban revolution, has died aged 90. Read more...
