Fifth International is the English language journal of the League for the Fifth International. Its purpose is to argue for the politics of the League at a length and depth that is impossible in the newspaper publications of the L5I's sections. It contains a mixture of survey pieces, reviews, longer theoretical articles and debates. It comes out quarterly.

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Fifth International, Issue 22, Winter 2021

Fifth International, Issue 21, Spring/Summer 2021

Fifth International, Issue 20, Spring/Summer 2020

Fifth International, Issue 19, Autumn/Winter 2016

Fifth International, Issue 18, Spring/Summer 2016

Fifth International Issue 17, Summer/Autumn 2015

Fifth International, Volume 4, Issue 3, Winter 2014/15

Fifth International, Volume 4, Issue 2, Autumn 2014

Fifth International, Volume 4, Issue 1, Summer 2014

Fifth International, Volume 3, Issue 4, Autumn 2010

Fifth International, Volume 3, Issue 3, Winter 2009

• The Bolsheviks, the Red Army and the Russian Civil War
• World economy – heading to a new upswing?
• An historic crisis of capitalism Part 3: The world class struggle, the character of the situation and the tasks of communists
• An historic crisis of capitalism Part 2: The politics of the new world order
• An historic crisis of capitalism Part 1: The crisis of globalisation: overaccumulation and the re-ordering of the world
• Hope in retreat: Obama and the US working class

Fifth International, Volume 3, Issue 2, Spring 2009

• Social democracy, neoliberalism and new left parties in Europe
• The tragedy of the Iranian Revolution – lessons for today
• The Wall Street crash 1929-33
• The New Anticapitalist Party in France: a historic opportunity
• Now for the re-ordering of the world?
• Save the planet from capitalist destruction
• The method and principles of communist organisation
• The crisis in the global car industry: imperialism, monopoly and resistance
• The death of the Celtic Tiger
• A defeated revolution: Finland 1918
• Now for the re-ordering of the world?

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Fifth International, Volume 3, Issue 1, October 2008

• Chávez turns to the right
• Challenges to a changing US working class
• The Crisis of Globalisation
• Nepal's Maoist government defends capitalism
• Taking the capitalist road? The market reforms in Cuba
• James P Cannon and the fight for communism in the USA
• Why is there no socialism in the United States?”
• The EU reform treaty: what it is and how to fight it
• Will Barack Obama bring a new deal for American workers?

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Fifth International, Volume 2, Issue 5, Dec 2007

• Illusions in America will not help Iranian women
• Marxist theory of law
• The God Delusion: An ultimately crude and one-sided atheism
• Neoliberalism in the universities
• George Habash: 1916-2008
• Editorial
• France: can a new, revolutionary party be forged in struggle?
• To the comrades of the PRS from the League
• Can Marxist theory and class struggle avert environmental catastrophe?

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Fifth International, Volume 2, Issue 4, Oct 2007

• Editorial
• Bangladesh: end of the old order
• Respect’s crisis is opportunity for new workers party
• Global credit crunch – towards a crisis of globalisation?
• China: From Mao to the market
• An immaterial analysis of women’s oppression

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Fifth International, Volume 2, Issue 3, Jun 2007

• Pakistan: on the verge of revolution
• International Marxist Tendency in Pakistan
• Pakistan: the programme of permanent revolution
• A step towards revolutionary unity
• Sri Lanka: from civil war to permanent revolution
• Whatever happened to the anticapitalist movement?
• The postmodernist sickness in the anticapitalist movement
• The resistible rise of German imperialism
• 100 years on: the relevance of permanent revolution
• Rebuilding the Latin American left
• Politics, the party and the unions
• China’s move to the market

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Fifth International, Volume 2, Issue 2, Feb 2007

• Editorial
• Cracks in the American world order
• Swedish moderates launch first attacks on working class
• The Indonesian Massacre of 1965
• Hugo Chavez : leading a socialist revolution?

Fifth International, Volume 2, Issue 1, Sep 2006

• What is the invasion of Lebanon about?
• Ceasefire in Lebanon
• The Imperialist offensive and the crisis of working class leadership
• France in Crisis
• Editorial
• Stop Israel's barbaric aggression

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Fifth International, Volume 1, Issue 3, Dec 2005

• Bolivia: power within grasp
• Making poverty sustainable: the G8, NGOs and debt relief
• The Left Party in Germany
• EU referendum - Apres le Non
• Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian revolution
• The road to Respect: The SWPs march to the right
• 1905 and the Origin of the Theory of Permanent Revolution

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Fifth International, Volume 1, Issue 2, May 2004

• The Great Miners’ Strike, 1984-85
• The Basque national question: self-determination is the key issue
• Lula: The World Bank’s president
• Communist principles of youth organisation
• Beyond Imperialism? A journey through Empire
• The Tobin Tax: a reformist utopia
• Editorial
• ‘Americanise or bust’: the contradictions of European unification

Fifth International, Volume 1, Issue 1, Nov 2003

• Class struggle in Europe
• Flying on one engine: the world economy today
• Globalisation: the contradictions of late imperialism
• German Imperialism: Waking up to the US Threat
• The Alternative to Blair: Old Labour or New Workers' Party?
• The Roma, Europe’s forgotten nationality
• Anticapitalist Manifestos: Monbiot, Albert & Callinicos
• Editorial
• Prospects for the Middle East