Issues
USA: Kenosha shootings show need for self defence
Dave Stockton Tue, 01/09/2020 - 17:17In Kenosha, Wisconsin, at 5.00 pm. on Sunday, 23 August, Jacob Blake was shot seven times in the back whilst getting into his car, by a police officer, Rusten Sheskey. Read more...
Mali: Mass protests and coup
Robert Teller, GAM Infomail No 1115, August 27, 2020 Fri, 28/08/2020 - 12:17The coup in Bamako on 18 August drew attention to a mass movement that had previously received little attention. Read more...
The 80th anniversary of the death of Leon Trotsky
Dave Stockton Fri, 21/08/2020 - 17:37It is 80 years today since Leon Trotsky, aged 60, died at 7.25 pm in a hospital in Mexico City from a wound inflicted the day before by Ramón Mercader, an agent of Joseph Stalin the then all-powerful Read more...
Sri Lanka: Sinhala chauvinists strengthen their grip
Peter Main Wed, 19/08/2020 - 09:35Sri Lanka's general election, held on August 5, gave a landslide victory to the Sri Lanka Freedom Alliance, the electoral bloc dominated by the President, Gotabhaya Rajapakse and his brother, Mahinda Read more...
Belarus: From rigged elections to open revolt
Urte March Tue, 18/08/2020 - 11:31The uprising in Belarus has reached a decisive point, as President Alexander Lukashenko told workers demanding his resignation and democratic elections, “as long as you don’t kill me, there won’t be a Read more...
Bolivia: The fight for democracy is the struggle for revolution!
Dave Stockton Wed, 12/08/2020 - 13:52A wave of strikes and blockades, called by the trade union federation, COB, and an alliance of peasant and indigenous organisations has paralysed Bolivia after the Supreme Electoral Court, TSE, announ Read more...
Lebanon: The Revolution has begun
Dilara Lorin, Martin Suchanek Mon, 10/08/2020 - 09:05The explosion of 2750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate in the port of Beirut on August 4, which killed 154 people and injured over 5,000, left the city in devastation. Read more...
Germany: The second wave of the corona-sceptics?
Wilhelm Schulz, GAM Infomail 1113, 3, August 2020 Fri, 07/08/2020 - 15:05It was an eerie sight: up to 30,000 corona "sceptics" and direct deniers of the pandemic demonstrating in Berlin on August 1. Read more...
The Pandemic, the crisis and the struggle of the Indian working class
Irfan Khan Tue, 28/07/2020 - 08:25In India, almost one and a half million people have been infected by the coronavirus by the end of July. On 26.7. Read more...
Germany: Government pulling out of a nosedive ?
Jürgen Roth; neue Internationale 248, Juli/August 2020 Sat, 25/07/2020 - 15:11A crisis was not unexpected in 2020. Many Marxists, including us, had predicted it long before the Corona pandemic, although not its historical extent. Read more...
USA: Trump toys with a Police State
Dave Stockton Wed, 22/07/2020 - 14:24For the last ten days, Donald Trump has been trialling a presidential coup d’etat, starting in Portland, Oregon but now being extended to Chicago. Read more...
The global crisis, the working class and the Left
International Executive Committee Sat, 18/07/2020 - 11:15During the first half of 2020, all countries experienced a massive shrinkage of GDP and industrial production. Read more...
Perspectives of the Russian Left
Aleksandr Buzgalin Wed, 15/07/2020 - 14:27Perspectives of the Russian Left
This interview, with Aleksandr Buzgalin, a speaker for the political-academic association "Alternativyi", took place in the middle of June, 2020. Read more...
The world health crisis and its unfolding in Brazil
Liga Socialista, Brazil Mon, 22/06/2020 - 20:51The health crisis that ravages the world due to COVID-19 has exposed all the fragility of the capitalist system. Read more...
Women’s Oppression: the dual burden of the Corona-Heroines
Jaqueline Katherina Singh, Neue Internationale 247, May 2020 Tue, 16/06/2020 - 17:04Internationally, women make up 70 percent of the staff in social and care professions. Read more...
The Americas: new centre of the pandemic
Markus Lehner, Neue Internationale 247, June 2020 Sat, 06/06/2020 - 13:08While in Europe, outside Russia, the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic seems to be slowing down, at least for the time being, the situation on the American continent and in the Caribbean is very critica Read more...
China after the lockdown: New problems, same policies
Peter Main Thu, 04/06/2020 - 10:10Constitutionally, the People’s National Congress is the highest organ of state power in China. Read more...
USA: Trading Lives for Profit – Updating the Reopening
Marcus Otono, Workers Power US Tue, 26/05/2020 - 08:55Trading Lives for Profit – Updating the Reopening Read more...
Pakistan: From workers’ protests to workers’ revolt
Shehzad Arshad Fri, 22/05/2020 - 07:51Protests were held across Pakistan on Tuesday, May 19 under the auspices of the Workers' Solidarity Committee, WSC. The protesters included political activists, students and women. Read more...
Britain: Relaxing the Lockdown? We’ll need workers' control
Dave Stockton redflagonline.org May 7, 2020 Wed, 13/05/2020 - 15:22Boris Johnson is due to announce the relaxation of the Covid-19 “lockdown” on Sunday. The Times reports ministers are worried there is a danger workers will become “addicted to it”. Read more...
Germany: May Day, a first balance sheet
Martin Suchanek, GAM Infomail 1102, 5 May 2020 Wed, 13/05/2020 - 15:17First of all, the positive part of the political balance: Despite a nationwide ban on demonstrations, despite the restrictions on demonstrations to 20-50 people depending on the federal state, thousan Read more...
May Day statement of the League for the Fifth International
International Secretariat Thu, 30/04/2020 - 11:20The impending catastrophe and how to fight it
We will not pay for the pandemic! We will not pay for the crisis! Read more...
The EU - the next Corona victim?
Markus Lehner, Neue Internationale No 246, April 2020 Wed, 29/04/2020 - 10:23Since the beginning of the Corona crisis, it has seemed as if EU regulations were little more than smoke and mirrors: border closures, debt for rescue packages, business support, procurement of medica Read more...
The Grand Reopening - Profit and Death in the USA
Marcus Otono Sat, 25/04/2020 - 13:02We've seen it coming for weeks now: actually for months if you count the initial denigration of the threat of the coronavirus and Covid 19 for the US by the Trump administration. Read more...
USA: They Got Bailed Out – Again!
Marcus Otono, Workers Power US Thu, 16/04/2020 - 10:49So much of capitalism in crisis is like the movie Groundhog Day. Read more...
UK: Keir Starmer’s election: the end of the Corbyn revolution
Red Flag Editorial Board, April 15, 2020 Wed, 15/04/2020 - 10:13The election of Keir Starmer as Labour leader, with 56.2% of the vote, represents a clear victory for the right in the party. Read more...
Theses on Latin America: a continent in crisis
International Executive Committee Tue, 07/04/2020 - 13:15A Continent in Crisis Read more...
Capitalism kills: Imperialism, Capitalism and the Destruction of Humanity and Nature
League for the Fifth International Tue, 07/04/2020 - 12:49On the fundamental contradictions between sustainability and the capitalist mode of production
Contents
Introduction
Green Economy - the wrong answers of capitalism Read more...
USA: Raise the Stakes – Unify the Strikes!
Christian Gebhardt Wed, 01/04/2020 - 09:56The corona epidemic has the United States in its grip. Daily we hear about a rising number of infected individuals and sadly the number of deaths is also steadily rising. Read more...
Iran: Lift the sanctions!
Urte March Tue, 31/03/2020 - 10:04Iran now ranks fourth in the world for total number of deaths from coronavirus. The death toll currently stands at over 2,700, with each day bringing hundreds of new victims. Read more...