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THE SIEGE of Aleppo has entered its final hours. Read more...

Italian voters have rejected premier Matteo Renzi's proposed amendments to the constitution with an impressive 59 percent in the referendum sponsored by his government. Read more...

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

Venezuela, home of the “socialism of the twenty first century” of charismatic President Hugo Chávez, has, under his successor Nicolás Maduro, experienced a spectacular economic and political car cras Read more...

AFTER TEN months of political wrangling and two inconclusive elections, Mariano Rajoy’s Popular Party (PP) has secured the support of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) to form a minority gov Read more...

After an election campaign that lasted 597 days and cost $2.6 billion, Donald Trump has ridden a wave of anti-establishment anger to become the 45th President of the United States. Read more...

Until quite recently, German imperialism seemed a bit different from the rest of Europe. Read more...

South Africa’s student movement has closed down many of the country’s universities for nearly a month now in their campaign to abolish fees. Read more...

Since the killing of Burhan Wani (see: http://www.fifthinternational.org/content/kashmir-killing-sparks-mass-op... ) there has been a severe crack down by the Indian state on th Read more...

Although, in an interview with Germany's public broadcaster, ARD, Angela Merkel ducked the question, “how democratic is Turkey now?”, the answer has been clear for a long time: the political strength Read more...

On September 10, in Finland's capital city, Helsinki, 28-year-old Jimi Joonas Karttunen was attacked from behind by supporters of the Finnish branch of the neo-Nazi Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM), a Read more...

The brutal attack on Eastern Aleppo by Russian and Syrian warplanes, bombing with bunker buster, incendiary and barrel bombs, has already killed hundreds of civilians, creating a landscape many have l Read more...

When the international media talk about “the refugee crisis” they generally mean the situation in Europe, ignoring the plight of millions across a vast area stretching from the Atlantic to the Himalay Read more...

The first of the reactionary consequences of Brexit is the major boost it has given to racist attacks on people perceived to be migrants. The effect was immediate. Read more...

First, the good news from Hangzhou; the US and China have adopted the international climate change agreement reached in Paris in December 2015. Read more...

In the wake of the terrorist atrocities of 13 November 2015, which left 130 dead, Socialist government ministers and local mayors in various cities and regions have launched a series of measures targe Read more...

One year ago, on September 2, 2015, a general strike by 150 million workers brought India to a standstill. Read more...

On August 8, a suicide bombing killed at least 110 and injured a further 200 at a state-run hospital in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan. Read more...

Since July 7, Syria’s largest city, Aleppo, has witnessed intense fighting after Assad regime forces and their Lebanese and Russian allies cut off the eastern part of the city, with a population of 25 Read more...

On November 28, 2014, representatives from 58 European and African countries met to adopt the "Khartoum Process". Read more...

The election for Labour Party leader is in full swing with huge rallies for Jeremy Corbyn: Liverpool leading with an 8-10,000 turnout and large meetings in Hull and Leeds. Read more...

Although the attempted coup by elements of the Armed Forces on July 15 was successfully defeated, since then, there has been a decisive shift in the balance of power by which the president, Recep Tayy Read more...

We have compared the police and vigilante terror against black people in the United States to a horror version of the film “Groundhog Day” before. Read more...

在资本主义经济危机和新自由主义结构改革中妇女往往是首当其冲、受害最深的群体。在巴基斯坦，妇女的就业基本被局限在“非正式”的行业中。这些行业很庞大，它遍布城市和乡镇，雇佣了大约6500万工人，约占全国劳动力总数的四分之三。

在这些行业里工作的工人，不管是男是女，都享受不到国家劳动法规的保障。没有社会保障和医疗保险，也没有养老金和带薪休假的福利，大多数人领到的工资要少于国家规定的最低工资。 Read more...

The victory for a British exit from the European Union, Brexit, in the June 23 referendum has created shock waves not only in Europe but around the world. Read more...

On May 7, Warsaw witnessed its largest demonstration since the end of Communism. Around 240,000 people answered the call of the "Committee for the Defence of Democracy", KOD. Read more...

España terminó 2015 con elecciones parlamentarias en que el sistema de dos partidos, que duró décadas, sufrió un golpe histórico. Read more...

Jo Cox, Labour MP for Batley and Spen has been assassinated by a neo-Nazi terrorist for her anti-racist and pro-refugee beliefs. Read more...

Alevilerin mülteci kampına karşı protestolarına nasıl bir tepki göstermeli?  Read more...