Issues
Italy: fascists direct covid anger against trade unions
KD Tait, Workers power No 388 Thu, 28/10/2021 - 12:32ON SATURDAY 16 October tens of thousands attended an anti-fascist demonstration in Rome, called by the CGIL trade union, in response to a fascist attack on the union’s headquarters the previous week. Read more...
Demand return of Afghan reserves and aid for refugees
Dave Stockton Thu, 28/10/2021 - 09:02After 40 years of war Afghanistan momentarily seemed to be at peace after the Taliban took power for the second time in mid-August. But the Taliban have taken over a devastated country.
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Halt the Coup in Sudan
International Secretariat, League for the Fifth International Tue, 26/10/2021 - 09:24On the morning of October 25, a coup was launched in Khartoum. Read more...
What's the Chinese for "Lehman"?
Peter Main Mon, 18/10/2021 - 11:10Well, there's no exact translation, but perhaps a close equivalent might be "Evergrande". Read more...
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...