National Sections of the L5I:

Revolution

May Day statement of the League for the Fifth International

The 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

Ireland’s 7 February election delivered a stunning result for Sinn Féin. Read more...

ایران: ارتجاع در مقابل خیزش توده

ایران: ارتجاع در مقابل خیزش توده Read more...

Bolivia: The November coup - and how to reverse it

Bolivia’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

Bolivia’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

For several days now, the internet and social media have effectively been closed down in Iran. Read more...

Down with the reactionary coup in Bolivia

Chile: Military unleashed on peaceful protesters

Chile 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?

Iraq 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

Benjamin 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

The Coalition of the Radical Left, Syriza, has been thrown out of office after just over four years in government. Read more...

European Action Programme

The crisis of the European Union Read more...

Sudan: Counterrevolution strikes back, supported by the Egyptian Dictator and the Saudi Absolute Monarch

The 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

100 years of the Chinese revolution

On 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

On 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

After 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

Algeria'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

Part II The Road to Defeat

The Role of the USPD Read more...

Mexico - can AMLO’s landslide open the doors to revolution?

The 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

1968 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"

Fifty years ago this month, France was rocked by the biggest general strike in European history. Read more...

Marx at 200

Anniversaries never serve as a mere recollection of a person's historical work. Read more...

Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht - heroes of the revolution

Ninety 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!

"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

The 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

The 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

The 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

Lenin’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

Fidel Castro, one of the leaders of the Cuban revolution, has died aged 90. Read more...

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