Issues
Britain’s Winter of Discontent
Dave Stockton Tue, 20/12/2022 - 10:25Britain is facing a “winter of discontent” in the shape of the biggest wave of strikes for many years. Read more...
Would the real NPA please stand up?
Marc Lassalle, Workers Power 299, December 2022 Mon, 19/12/2022 - 16:18The 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...
Germany: Right-wing coup plotters: A portent of things to come?
Martin Suchanek, Berlin Wed, 14/12/2022 - 10:51On 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...
伊朗革命开始了——如何才能胜利?
马丁·苏查内克 2022年11月4日 Tue, 29/11/2022 - 15:29伊朗革命开始了——如何才能胜利?
马丁·苏查内克 2022年11月4日 08:57
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...
Iran: Crisis, capitalism and the rule of the Mullahs
Martin Suchanek, Neue Internationale 269, November 2022 Mon, 21/11/2022 - 16:25The 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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UK: The bankers’ budget - robbing the poor to pay the rich
KD Tait Workers Power, 18 November 2022 Mon, 21/11/2022 - 08:55JEREMY 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...
Iran: "Initially it was emotional, now it is political"
International Secretariat, League for the Fifth International Thu, 17/11/2022 - 20:04As 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 begun - how can it win?
Martin Suchanek Fri, 04/11/2022 - 08:57The Iranian revolution has reached a critical point. For weeks, thousands, probably millions in total, have been taking to the streets. Read more...
After Truss - now for the rest
Workers Power Political Committe, 21 October 2022 Sat, 22/10/2022 - 08:08BREXIT HAS claimed its fourth prime minister in six years. Liz Truss promised “growth, growth, growth” — and the markets replied “no, no, no”. Read more...
French workers on the offensive
Marc Lassalle Fri, 21/10/2022 - 09:05For almost a year, the French workers have mobilised in a series of strikes across the country which gained momentum after the summer. Read more...
Women, Life, Freedom - Death to Dictatorship!
Revolutionary Socialist Movement – Pakistan Wed, 19/10/2022 - 15:33We 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...
Half a year of war: Putin's endgame?
Martin Suchanek Neue Internationale 268, Berlin, October 2022 Sun, 09/10/2022 - 16:21The Russian army's significant losses of occupied Ukrainian territories in September has faced Putin and his regime with the possibility of defeat. Read more...
Between the rounds of Brazil’s presidential election
Dave Stockton Fri, 07/10/2022 - 15:50Against 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...
Pakistan: Not just a natural disaster, a capitalist catastrophe
Revolutionary Socialist Movement Wed, 05/10/2022 - 11:46For months now, Pakistan's people have suffered under one of the most severe floods ever recorded. Read more...
Elections in Brazil - the struggle enters a new stage
Markus Lehner Tue, 27/09/2022 - 10:38The Brazilian economy has been in crisis for almost a decade. This formerly "emerging market" is plagued by stagnation, inflation, and unemployment. Read more...
This was what Brexit was really about
Peter Main, Workers Power Mon, 26/09/2022 - 14:22At first sight, Kwasi Kwarteng's "mini-budget" looks like nothing more than pandering to the Tory members who voted for Liz Truss. Read more...
Support Workers and Youth Relief Campaign!
RSM, Lahore Mon, 26/09/2022 - 12:26In 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...
Zan Zendegi Azadi - Women! Life! Freedom!
Resa Ludivien, Neue Internationale 268, Berlin, October 2022 Sat, 24/09/2022 - 11:26What more could a woman want?
Freedom to dress the way I want
Freedom to believe what I want
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UK: The mourning and the myth
Peter Main Tue, 13/09/2022 - 10:43Hour 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...
Mikhail Gorbachev – a tragic figure in world history
Martin Suchanek, GAM Infomail 1197, Berlin, September 1 2022 Mon, 05/09/2022 - 12:28At 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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10 years of Rojava: achievements and aberrations
Robert Teller, Neue Internationale 267, Berlin, September 2022 Fri, 02/09/2022 - 15:48In July 2012, Kurdish armed forces took political control in the regions of Kobanê, Afrin and al-Hasakah in northern Syria. Read more...
Somalia’s Growing Famine
Dave Stockton Thu, 01/09/2022 - 07:46Somalia, 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...
Floods in Pakistan: The effects of capitalist development
Peral Azad Wed, 31/08/2022 - 11:56According 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’s strike heatwave
Dave Stockton Sun, 21/08/2022 - 09:34Britain 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...
Belarus: "Railway partisans" threatened with execution
Lars Keller, Infomail 1195, Berlin, 9 August 2022 Thu, 11/08/2022 - 07:55In 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...
Pakistan: Political crisis continues
Shehzad Arshad Sat, 06/08/2022 - 17:54Severe instability and crisis have become the norm in Pakistan. Read more...
Taiwan - a sign of the times
Peter Main Thu, 04/08/2022 - 15:25August 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...
Italy: Draghi falls, the far right rises
Dave Stockton Thu, 28/07/2022 - 10:50On 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...
Biden's visit to two pariah states
Dave Stockton Wed, 20/07/2022 - 11:06Joe 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: Macron weakened, RN rising, increasing class struggle
Marc Lassalle Tue, 19/07/2022 - 11:43France 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...