National Sections of the L5I:

The working class

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What is the Proletariat?

What is the working class? Are workers exploited under capitalism? And why do socialists believe that the working class can change the world? Read more...

Unite women’s struggles with those of the working class and the oppressed!

Women have been in the forefront of working class and democratic struggles over the last year. Read more...

France: two million march—where next?

Britain’s Winter of Discontent

Britain is facing a “winter of discontent” in the shape of the biggest wave of strikes for many years. Read more...

Germany: Right-wing coup plotters: A portent of things to come?

On 7 December, the German Federal Public Prosecutor's Office mobilised 3,000 police officers and special forces in the largest anti-terrorist operation in the history of the Federal Republic. Read more...

UK: The bankers’ budget - robbing the poor to pay the rich

JEREMY HUNT has delivered a new austerity budget that offloads £55 billion of tax rises and spending cuts onto the backs of the poor and working class. Read more...

Britain’s strike heatwave

Britain is having a record hot summer - not just in terms of the 30-40 degree temperatures that have turned normally green lawns and pastures into brown scrublands – but in terms of a “hot summer” of Read more...

Pakistan: Political crisis continues

Severe instability and crisis have become the norm in Pakistan. Read more...

Italy: Draghi falls, the far right rises

On July 21, Italy’s prime minister, Mario Draghi, resigned for the second time in one week, after key parts of his national unity coalition; the populist Five Star Movement, M5S, Matteo Salvini’s far- Read more...

Sri Lanka: Everything has changed, but nothing has changed!

Sri Lanka's huge protest movement has finally forced Gotabaya Rajapaksa to resign. Read more...

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