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

The long death agony of the French Nouveau parti anticapitaliste has reached its terminal stage following a walk-out of its recent conference by the former leadership. Read more...

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伊朗革命开始了——如何才能胜利？
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伊朗革命已经到了临界点。几个星期以来，成千上万的人，可能总共数百万人走上街头。在库尔德地区，总罢工使公共生活陷入瘫痪。大学是抵抗运动的大本营，罢工也蔓延到全国各地。 Read more...

The depth of the current movement in Iran can only be properly understood if we look at the social and economic developments of recent years and the regime's connection to capitalism.

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JEREMY HUNT has delivered a new austerity budget that offloads £55 billion of tax rises and spending cuts onto the backs of the poor and working class. Read more...

As the movement against the Ayatollahs' regime spread across Iran, the League for the Fifth International interviewed Ali Rezaei, an Iranian socialist. Read more...

The Iranian revolution has reached a critical point. For weeks, thousands, probably millions in total, have been taking to the streets. Read more...

BREXIT HAS claimed its fourth prime minister in six years. Liz Truss promised “growth, growth, growth” — and the markets replied “no, no, no”. Read more...

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...

We mourn the death of Jina Mahsa Amini. Mahsa was a young Kurdish woman who died in the custody of Iran’s morality police. She was not the first, many a woman before her died silently. Read more...

The Russian army's significant losses of occupied Ukrainian territories in September has faced Putin and his regime with the possibility of defeat. Read more...

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...

For months now, Pakistan's people have suffered under one of the most severe floods ever recorded. Read more...

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

At first sight, Kwasi Kwarteng's "mini-budget" looks like nothing more than pandering to the Tory members who voted for Liz Truss. Read more...

In Pakistan, floods started in June and peaked in mid-August leaving almost 1500 people dead even according to official figures, which are likely to be an underestimation. Read more...

What more could a woman want?
Freedom to dress the way I want
Freedom to believe what I want
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Hour after hour of obsequious commentary, constant updating on the progress of the coffin towards London, an uninterrupted procession of has-beens and would-be's boosting their own importance by recal Read more...

At the age of 91, Mikhail Gorbachev, the last president of the Soviet Union and party leader of the CPSU, died on August 30 in Moscow. –

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In July 2012, Kurdish armed forces took political control in the regions of Kobanê, Afrin and al-Hasakah in northern Syria. Read more...

Somalia, as well as parts of Ethiopia and northern Kenya, is once again facing severe famine because of extreme and worsening drought in the Horn of Africa. Read more...

According to official estimates, the floods hitting Pakistan have already led to over 1000 deaths, the final figure is likely to be very much higher. Read more...

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...

In March and April, the Russian army stood at the gates of Kyiv, but Putin's invasion of Ukraine stalled. A few weeks later, Russia had to withdraw from the area around the capital. Read more...

Severe instability and crisis have become the norm in Pakistan. Read more...

August 4, the anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War, might not seem an auspicious date for China to mobilise its forces to surround Taiwan. Read more...

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...

Joe Biden has ended his four day trip to the Middle East with little to show for it except a further soiled reputation as a champion of human rights. Read more...

France has had a long season of elections. It started last autumn with the presidential campaign, including primaries in the major parties, that generated a xenophobic, anti-migrant climate. Read more...