Issues
India: Workers' and Farmers' Unity can halt Modi’s neoliberal onslaught
Bernie McAdam Mon, 01/02/2021 - 21:49Indian farmers and farm labourers are engaged in a massive struggle to repeal three agricultural laws, passed by parliament in September, that will deregulate and further privatise the rural economy. Read more...
A step in the right direction: Zero Covid!
Markus Lehner, Neue Internationale 253, February 2021 Thu, 28/01/2021 - 16:01The Corona pandemic, with its more than 2 million deaths worldwide so far, is certainly the most dangerous fast-spreading global epidemic since the Spanish flu. Read more...
EU at the Crossroads
Martin Suchanek, New International 253, February 2021 Wed, 27/01/2021 - 10:14For several years, Europe has been at a crossroads. The way forward concerns first the EU and the Eurozone, but of course also the countries outside the confederation, above all, Russia and Britain. Read more...
France: Macron’s war on Separatism
Kady Tait and Dave Stockton, Red Flag 38 Sun, 24/01/2021 - 14:16On 9 December, France’s prime minister, Jean Castex, held a press conference to announce the publication of a "draft law to strengthen republican values", aimed at defending secularism (Laïcité) and f Read more...
Rosa Luxemburg's Contribution to Marxism
Martin Suchanek Fri, 15/01/2021 - 11:51On the night of January 15-16, 1919, Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, heroic pioneers and front line fighters of the revolution sweeping Germany and Europe, were brutally murdered by the Freikorps Read more...
Pakistan: Down with state repression! International solidarity with Kashmir!
International Secretariat, League for the Fifth International Wed, 13/01/2021 - 18:42As reports of the Pakistani state preparing a major police operation against Kashmiris pour in, the League for the Fifth International sends solidarity to the people of Kashmir who went on strike on t Read more...
Statement on Trump’s fascist provocation
International Secretariat and WPUSA Thu, 07/01/2021 - 18:45The storming of the US Capitol by a mob of fascists, at the instigation of Donald Trump, was an abortive attempt by the cornered but still vicious President to coerce the Congress (and the Vice Presid Read more...
UK: Boris Johnson's Brexit heralds race to the bottom
Statement by the Political Committee of Red Flag Tue, 29/12/2020 - 09:37Whatever a narrow majority of the electorate imagined they would get when they voted to Leave the European Union, the strategists who planned Brexit knew exactly what they wanted. Read more...
India: Farmers' march sparks new mass movement against Modi
Imran Javiad Mon, 21/12/2020 - 14:24Hundreds of thousands of farmers from all over India started the Delhi Chalo (Let us go to Delhi) March on November 25 at the behest of the All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, which cons Read more...
Compromise ends EU budget dispute
Jürgen Roth, Neue Internationale 252, December 2020/January 2021 Fri, 18/12/2020 - 19:28After weeks of wrangling with Poland and Hungary, the German Council presidency just managed to avoid the EU's next looming disaster. Read more...
What can we expect from Bidenomics?
Marcus Otono Sat, 05/12/2020 - 09:21It's tempting to look at Joseph Robinette Biden’s 50 year career in politics, 48 of them on the national level in the Senate and as Vice President, and do a “hot take” on how he will govern and what h Read more...
Friedrich Engels at 200
Gerald Falke and Dave Stockton Sat, 28/11/2020 - 09:01The 200th anniversary Friedrich Engels' birth, gives us an opportunity to look back over his remarkable life and recall the importance of his contribution to what became known as Marxism and to the fo Read more...
Solidarity with the General Strike in India
Martin Suchanek Fri, 27/11/2020 - 08:56Since the morning of November 26, a massive general strike is sweeping across India. Trade Unions expect up to 250 million participants. Read more...
Political crisis in Sweden: Strike action is the way forward
Arbetarmakt, Sweden Thu, 26/11/2020 - 17:33Ever since a general election in September 2018 produced a hung parliament, Sweden has limped from one near-crisis to the next. Read more...
Self-determination and the war in Nagorno-Karabakh
Marcel Rajecky Fri, 20/11/2020 - 21:04The war in Nagorno Karabakh may be drawing to a close after Armenia, which had mobilised in defence of the ethnically Armenian state, and Azerbaijan signed an agreement on November 9. Read more...
Nigeria: Youth rise up in #END SARS revolt
Bernie McAdam Thu, 12/11/2020 - 08:52On October 7, a mass revolt of Nigerian youth was triggered after a video showing police officers from the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, killing a teenager went viral. Read more...
Chile: Mass movement wins constitutional convention
Chris Clough, Red Flag, November 4, 2020 Mon, 09/11/2020 - 11:24Last year the masses in Chile waged a heroic struggle against the ruling class, forcing them to grant democratic and economic reforms in an attempt to placate the movement. Read more...
Poland: Mass protests and strikes against abortion ban
Aventina Holzer/Martin Suchanek, GAM Infomail 1124, 30. Oktober 2020 Fri, 30/10/2020 - 18:15For days, thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets in Poland. Their signs and banners read: "They have blood on their robes", "Protect the women", "Fuck off" and "This is war". Read more...
Austria: Local elections in Vienna and a new Left organisation
Arbeiter*innenstandpunkt, Vienna, October 16, 2020 Fri, 23/10/2020 - 17:01In the recent local elections in Vienna, the biggest city in Austria with about one third of the country’s population, our Austrian section was part of a new left election project called LINKS (German Read more...
Crisis in the USA
International Executive Committee, League for the Fifth International Thu, 22/10/2020 - 07:42A: Introduction Read more...
Belarus: Protest movement stagnates as Lukashenko consolidates control
Urte March Tue, 20/10/2020 - 11:16Anti-regime protests in Belarus are continuing for a tenth week; meanwhile, embattled president Alexander Lukashenko was formally inaugurated in late September. Read more...
Solidarity with Baloch student long march!
League for the Fifth International Sun, 11/10/2020 - 11:33The League for the Fifth International sends its solidarity to the Baloch student long march for education from Multan to Islamabad. Read more...
Austria: The LINKS campaign in Vienna city elections
Interview with Heidi Rieder, Neue Internationale 250, Berlin, October 2020 Tue, 06/10/2020 - 08:30The Arbeiter*innenstandpunkt, the Austrian section of the League for the Fifth International, is calling for a vote for the LINKS list in the Vienna municipal elections. Read more...
Germany: 30 years of reunification, nothing to celebrate
Bruno Tesch Fri, 02/10/2020 - 21:36The big celebration in Potsdam for Germany's Day of Unity had to be cancelled because of the pandemic. Read more...
War over Nagorno-Karabakh threatens to become a conflagration
Martin Suchanek Fri, 02/10/2020 - 11:05On the morning of September 27, the growing conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which had been more or less openly carried on for more than three years, escalated. Read more...
Louisville Grand Jury decides Black Lives do not Matter
Dave Stockton Fri, 25/09/2020 - 13:10Once again, protests against police racism have erupted across the nation. Read more...
Pakistan: No to cuts in education! Solidarity with student protests in Punjab!
International Secretariat, League for the Fifth International Fri, 25/09/2020 - 10:00The League for the Fifth International sends solidarity to the students of Bahauddin Zakaria University, in Multan, and Islamia University, in Bahawalpur, who have been protesting against threats to t Read more...
Hypocrisy and fundamentalism: the attacks on women's rights in post-coup Brazil
Liga Socialista, Brazil Sun, 20/09/2020 - 12:35On 27 August 2020, the Bolsonaro government carried out yet another vicious attack on women's rights. Read more...
Britain: Tories could unleash a second wave by reopening schools
UCU rep, redflagonline, September 3, 2020 Mon, 07/09/2020 - 16:08As schools and colleges across the country reopen, the National Education Union (NEU) has accused Tory ministers of being “negligent in the extreme”. Read more...
Germany: Crisis, pandemic and the looming flood of corona deniers
Martin Suchanek, GAM Infomail 1116, September 1, 2020 Fri, 04/09/2020 - 13:46The second wave of corona deniers, ranging from Querdenken 711 ("Lateral Thinking 711") to the Alternative fuer Deutschland, AfD and various right-wing groups to the Reich Citizens, the Identitarian M Read more...