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The Paris Commune: Expropriation of the expropriators

150 years ago, on 18 March 1871, after France had been defeated in the Franco-Prussian war, the French army planned to disarm the National Guard of Paris and seize 227 artillery pieces that the people Read more...

Myanmar: Resistance to coup continues, solidarity with workers and youth

March has witnessed a steep escalation of repression by Myanmar’s military – the Tatmadaw - against completely peaceful and unarmed demonstrators. Read more...

USA: Support Bessemer workers - and imitate them

A labour organising drive in the town of Bessemer, Alabama, (population 26,680) has caught the attention of trade unionists and socialists worldwide. The reason? Read more...

International Women’s Day, 2021

2020 will long be remembered for the enormous scale of the public health, economic and social crisis triggered by Covid19. Read more...

Imperialist countries' hoarding vaccine risks prolonging pandemic

Imperialist countries have pre-ordered enough vaccines to inoculate their populations many times over. Read more...

General strike and giant demonstrations rock Myanmar’s military

Vast crowds have packed the streets of the cities of Myanmar (Burma) in the largest day of protests thus far against the February 1 takeover by the corrupt and brutal Tatmadaw, the country’s armed for Read more...

Russia: The Navalny case and the Putin regime

On 20 February, the latest act in the legal farce surrounding Alexei Navalny, the figurehead of the bourgeois Russian opposition, came to a close. Read more...

USA: Biden promises to "build back better"

Most of the world’s political leaders are rejoicing over the replacement of Donald Trump by Joe Biden. Read more...

The military coup in Myanmar – from resistance to revolution

For several days now, demonstrations numbering hundreds of thousands have filled the streets of Myanmar’s largest city, Yangon, its second city, Mandalay, the capital, Naypyidaw, and many other cities Read more...

The house always wins: what we can learn from the Gamestop stock war

The financial world has been thrown into disarray at the start of 2021 as the stock price for GameStop, a US based brick-and-mortar video game retailer, skyrocketed by 8000%, hitting a peak of $469 pe Read more...

Austria: Corona demonstrations: Fascist marches or harmless confusion?

In recent weeks, Austria has seen an upswing in the mobilization of “Corona-sceptics”. Read more...

Down with Bolsonaro! Motorcades across the country demand impeachment

The dissatisfaction of the Brazilian population with the Bolsonaro government has been growing ever since its inauguration. Read more...

India: Workers' and Farmers' Unity can halt Modi’s neoliberal onslaught

Indian 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!

The 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

For 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

On 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

On 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!

As 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

The 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

Whatever 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

Hundreds 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

After 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?

It'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

The 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

Since 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

Ever 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

The 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

On 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

Last 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

For 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...

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