Issues
South Africa: 155,000 NUMSA steelworkers on indefinite strike
Jeremy Dewar Fri, 15/10/2021 - 16:46A mass strike has halted steel production in South Africa since 5 October. Read more...
France: Anti health pass demonstrations: no-pass or no-vax?
Marc Lassalle Sun, 10/10/2021 - 16:25Every Saturday, from mid-July to the end of August, about 200,000 people protested in France against the introduction of a health pass. Read more...
Germany: Elections and the political crisis of the bourgeoisie
Martin Suchanek, GAM Infomail 1163, Berlin, 20.09.2021 Mon, 20/09/2021 - 15:17With less than a week before Germany's general elections, the latest polls, from September 16, show the SPD, with 26 percent, ahead of the CDU/CSU on 22 percent and the Greens on 15 percent. Read more...
Afghanistan: Women show the way against fundamentalist reaction
Revolutionary Socialist Movement, Pakistan section of the League for the Fifth International Sun, 12/09/2021 - 15:25Afghan women are leading the way in organising anti-Taliban protests in Kabul and other parts of Afghanistan. They are doing what US and allied occupying forces failed to do: stand up to the Taliban. Read more...
We need a world health service
Bernie McAdam, Workers Power 385, London, September 2021 Fri, 10/09/2021 - 13:45The NHS is no longer the best healthcare system in the world. Read more...
German Homes Ltd: Yes to a referendum, Yes to expropriation!
Tomasz Jaroslaw/Veronika Schulz, Neue Internationale 258, Berlin, September 2021 Thu, 02/09/2021 - 17:02With some 250,000 valid signatures, the campaign "Expropriate Deutsche Wohnen & Co." (DWE - Expropriate "German Homes and Co") achieved the best result ever for a Berlin referendum in June. Read more...
The victory of the Taliban and its international significance
Int Wed, 18/08/2021 - 20:57The victory of the Taliban and the fall of the Ghani government are a humiliating defeat of global significance for the US and its Western allies. Read more...
French troops out of Mali, down with French colonialism!
Marc Lassalle Mon, 16/08/2021 - 13:55In a declaration in June 2021, President Macron announced the end of France's Operation Barkhane in Mali. Read more...
Germany: After the strike is before the strike!
Martin Suchanek, GAM Infomail 1158, 13 August 2021 Sat, 14/08/2021 - 15:54A 48-hour strike on Germany's railways has highlighted several key issues, and not just for railway workers. Read more...
The World Outlook
Martin Suchanek, Fifth International Journal 21, August 2021 Sun, 01/08/2021 - 12:38First published in Fifth International 21.
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The War in Nagorno-Karabakh
Marcel Rajecky Sun, 01/08/2021 - 12:24First published in Fifth International 21.
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South Africa: poor confront ANC’s rotten state
Jeremy Dewar, redflagonline Wed, 21/07/2021 - 16:40South Africa has just witnessed the worst violence in the country since the fall of apartheid nearly three decades ago. Read more...
USA exits Afghanistan in ignominy
Dave Stockton Tue, 20/07/2021 - 09:12Just short of the twentieth anniversary of George W Bush’s declaration of his War on Terrorism, Joe Biden announced the final exit of the remaining 2500 US troops from Afghanistan. Read more...
Cuba: protests raise need for a socialist perspective
Markus Lehner Fri, 16/07/2021 - 10:55On Saturday, July 10, several bloggers arranged to meet at noon the next day in San Antonio de los Baños, a suburb of Havana, to protest against the extreme shortage of basic necessities in Cuba. Read more...
War, massacre and starvation face millions in Ethiopia-Tigray War
Dave Stockton Mon, 12/07/2021 - 12:59First published in Fifth International 22.
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China: The centenary of the Chinese Communist Party, part 2
Peter Main Fri, 02/07/2021 - 17:49China: The centenary of the Communist Party
Peter Main Thu, 01/07/2021 - 10:41First published in Fifth International 22.
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Brazil: the right wing threat and how to fight it
Carlos Uchoa Magrini, Assíria Conti Fri, 11/06/2021 - 17:28First published in Fifth International 22.
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Statement on the Israeli - Hamas Ceasefire
International Secretariat, League for the Fifth International Fri, 21/05/2021 - 18:03The ceasefire agreed between Israel and Hamas represents a victory for the Third Palestinian Intifada in all its components – Hamas’s unquelled rocket bombardment, the heroic resistance of the populat Read more...
Covid-19: India and Pakistan show need for global plan
Minerwa Tahir, RSM Fri, 21/05/2021 - 10:47As the second wave proves deadly on a large scale for India, the situation seems to be worsening, albeit on a smaller scale, in Pakistan. Read more...
Colombia: Solidarity with the mass uprising
Tom Burns, Workers Power, USA and Carlos Magrini, Liga Socialista, Brazil Sun, 16/05/2021 - 11:15Colombia’s far right president, Iván Duque, lit the fuse of an uprising by working-class and middle class Colombians with a proposed tax increase, raising $8bn ostensibly to pay down the country’s deb Read more...
Super Mario as the Saviour of Italian Capitalism?
Aventina Holzer/Martin Suchanek, Infomail 1149, 10 May 2021. Fri, 14/05/2021 - 11:38The formation of a "government of national unity" under Prime Minister and former ECB chief Mario Draghi appears to be the last resort to prevent a collapse of Italian capitalism, to lead the country Read more...
لشبيبة حي الشيخ جراح كل التضامن! كل التضامن مع المقاومة الفلسطينية!
Dilara Lorin, Martin Suchanek Wed, 12/05/2021 - 18:37لشبيبة حي الشيخ جراح كل التضامن! كل التضامن مع المقاومة الفلسطينية! Read more...
Halt Israeli aggression in Gaza and Jerusalem - for a third Intifada
Dilara Lorin, Martin Suchanek Wed, 12/05/2021 - 13:19Once again, Israeli warplanes are bombing the Gaza Strip, the world’s most densely populated area, packed with 1.5 million civilians, including more than one million refugees. Read more...
Brazil - like a powder keg
Liga Socialista, Brazil, translated from Neue Internationale 255, Mai 2021 Wed, 05/05/2021 - 13:11What we are witnessing in Brazil today is the continuation of the 2016 coup that overthrew President Dilma Rousseff, Workers' Party, PT. Read more...
UK: Kill the Bill!
KD Tait , Red Flag Wed, 28/04/2021 - 10:17As the second covid lockdown draws to a close, social tensions are rising. Read more...
Pakistan: Clerical fascism rears its ugly head again
Minerwa Tahir Sat, 24/04/2021 - 14:52The forces of clerical fascism, embodied by the Tehreek Labbaik Pakistan, TLP, have asserted their growing strength with mass demonstrations across Pakistan. Read more...
Myanmar: Tatmadaw escalate the killings
Dave Stockton Wed, 31/03/2021 - 10:57The Tatmadaw, the mass murderers who rule Myanmar, are escalating the death toll on their own people. Read more...
Austria: LINKS Conference - A Political Change in Austria?
Arbeiter*innenstandpunkt Tue, 23/03/2021 - 19:16Recently, the new Viennese party LINKS (left in German) held its annual conference. Read more...