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South Africa: 155,000 NUMSA steelworkers on indefinite strike

A mass strike has halted steel production in South Africa since 5 October. Read more...

France: Anti health pass demonstrations: no-pass or no-vax?

Every 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

With 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

Afghan 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

The NHS is no longer the best healthcare system in the world. Read more...

German Homes Ltd: Yes to a referendum, Yes to expropriation!

With 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

The 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!

In 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!

A 48-hour strike on Germany's railways has highlighted several key issues, and not just for railway workers. Read more...

The World Outlook

First published in Fifth International 21.
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The War in Nagorno-Karabakh

First published in Fifth International 21.
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South Africa: poor confront ANC’s rotten state

South 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

Just 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

On 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

First published in Fifth International 22.
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China: The centenary of the Communist Party

First published in Fifth International 22.
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France: The Permanent Crisis of the NPA

Brazil: the right wing threat and how to fight it

First published in Fifth International 22.
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Statement on the Israeli - Hamas Ceasefire

The 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

As 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

Colombia’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?

The 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!

لشبيبة حي الشيخ جراح كل التضامن! كل التضامن مع المقاومة الفلسطينية! Read more...

Halt Israeli aggression in Gaza and Jerusalem - for a third Intifada

Once 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

What 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!

As the second covid lockdown draws to a close, social tensions are rising. Read more...

Pakistan: Clerical fascism rears its ugly head again

The 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

The 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?

Recently, the new Viennese party LINKS (left in German) held its annual conference. Read more...

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