Pakistan: Reactionary Right secures victory against transgender rights
Minerwa Tahir Fri, 19/05/2023 - 18:37In a landmark defeat for sexually oppressed people’s rights, the religious court of Pakistan has ruled that transgender people cannot change their gender at will. Read more...
Ukraine: On the Way to an Endless War of Position?
Markus Lehner, Neue Internationale 273, May 2023 Wed, 17/05/2023 - 10:56The war in Ukraine is taking on more and more of the terrible characteristics of the First World War. Read more...
Pakistan: Heading for a constitutional crisis?
Minerwa Tahir Fri, 12/05/2023 - 07:56The arrest, and then the release, of Imran Khan, former prime minister and leader of the Pakistan Tehreek Insaf, PTI, party, underline the deep divisions within the country's ruling class and state in Read more...
Turkey: Elections could see the end of Erdogan
Dilara Lorin Fri, 05/05/2023 - 13:19Presidential and parliamentary elections are due in Turkey on 14 May. They could prove decisive for the fate of the Erdogan regime. Read more...
France: Is Macron driving through his pension reform?
Martin Suchanek Wed, 19/04/2023 - 09:24Regardless of reverses and record unpopularity, President Macron is pushing through the raising of the retirement age from 62 to 64 years - against the resistance of wage earners, trade unions and you Read more...
The anti-war movement in Russia
Jaqueline Singh, Fight! Revolutionary Women's Newspaper 11, March 2023 Fri, 07/04/2023 - 10:29The banking crisis: background and answers
Markus Lehner Wed, 05/04/2023 - 08:37On 8 March, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) announced that it would raise $2 billion through a capital increase to offset losses in its assets. Read more...
The Ukraine War and its Impact on Women
Jaqueline Singh, Fight! Revolutionary Women's Newspaper 11, March 2023 Tue, 04/04/2023 - 09:32For more than a year, the Ukraine war has dominated the headlines. Read more...
Israel-Palestine: Break the wave of repression!
Alex Rutherford, Workers Power 402, April 2023 Mon, 03/04/2023 - 12:37AS PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu was being wined and dined by the British government, both the brutality of the apartheid state against the Palestinians and mass opposition on the streets by Israe Read more...
Pakistan: Deaths at charity flour centres
Revolutionary Socialist Movement – Pakistan Sun, 02/04/2023 - 16:53In the last week, 12 people, three children and nine women, have died as they queued for flour at a Ramadan charity centre in Karachi. Read more...
Spain: Mass protests against deterioration of the health system
Ernst Ellert, GAM Infomail no. 1217, 22 March 2023 Thu, 30/03/2023 - 16:12A wave of protests by doctors, nurses and their supporters is developing in Spain against the deliberate run down of the public healthcare system. Read more...
French battle over pensions becomes struggle for democracy
Marc Lassalle Fri, 24/03/2023 - 10:22General strike is the solution!
Down with Macron and the antidemocratic Fifth Republic! Read more...
On the political economy of reproductive labour
Tina Holzer and Martin Suchanek, Fight! #11, March 2023 Tue, 21/03/2023 - 09:15The current crisis is also one of social reproduction. Read more...
Pakistan in the grip of economic crisis and the IMF
Shehzad Arshad Mon, 20/03/2023 - 08:56Pakistan is in the grip of the worst economic crisis in its history. Read more...
Dictatorship and defiance, two sides of today's China
Peter Main Mon, 13/03/2023 - 16:54The last week has seen two sides of today's China; the fake parliamentary facade of the CCP's dictatorship and the eloquent defiance of that dictatorship by the Hong Kong democracy activist, Chow Hang Read more...
Battle over the pensions in France : Trade Unions are the key
Marc Lassalle Wed, 08/03/2023 - 14:56After six days of strike action and demonstrations in France the confrontation between workers and the government over the issue of the pension “reform” is reaching a decisive moment. Read more...
Unite women’s struggles with those of the working class and the oppressed!
International Secretariat, League for the Fifth International Tue, 07/03/2023 - 11:18Women have been in the forefront of working class and democratic struggles over the last year. Read more...
Fight the racists and bigots
Dave Stockton Tue, 28/02/2023 - 13:39Far right populist and fascist groups are mounting a widespread offensive across the UK and in the Republic of Ireland, using anti-immigrant racism and anti-trans bigotry as their calling cards. Read more...
The first year of the Ukraine war
Dave Stockton, Workers Power 400, February 2023 Fri, 24/02/2023 - 10:59February 24 is the first anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s Ukraine War, when 190,000 Russian armed forces launched a massive attack on the country. Read more...
France: millions march against pensions robbery
Marc Lassalle, Paris Fri, 17/02/2023 - 14:49The numbers speak for themselves. More than two million workers marched on 19 January against President Emmanuel Macron’s latest attempt to reform the pension system. Read more...
Israel: rising repression, rising resistance
Alex Rutherford and Marcel Rajeky, Workers Power 400 Wed, 15/02/2023 - 14:38ON 30 DECEMBER, the Israeli parliament voted into office a government headed by Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu. Read more...
Peru: masses deepen resistance to usurpers
KD Tait Sun, 12/02/2023 - 20:12PERU HAS been plunged into a deep crisis after leftist president Pedro Castillo was deposed in a parliamentary coup on 7 December. Read more...
The different components of the war in Ukraine
Markus Lehner Neue Internationale 271, February 2023 Tue, 31/01/2023 - 11:18The war in Ukraine is certainly at a historical turning point. Read more...
Iran: The regime threatens to drown the revolution in blood
Martin Suchanek Wed, 25/01/2023 - 12:02For months, the Islamist regime has been trying to drown in blood the mass protests and uprisings that have shaken the country since the murder of Jina Mahsa Amini. Read more...
Marcus Vickers
International Secretariat, League for the Fifth International Wed, 18/01/2023 - 20:24It is with great sorrow that we learned of the death of our comrade Marcus Vickers after a prolonged battle with cancer. Read more...
EU - Balkans Summit: Old Promises, New Lies
Frederik Haber Tue, 17/01/2023 - 16:36On 6 December, the Albanian capital Tirana hosted the latest conference of the “Western Balkan” states and the European Union. Read more...
Brazil: The failed coup - a warning to the working class
Martin Suchanek Tue, 10/01/2023 - 14:26Thousands of supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro stormed the Congress, the Supreme Court and the Presidential Palace in the federal capital Brasilia on 8 January. Read more...
China: the end of zero-Covid
Peter Main, Workers Power 299, London, December 2022 Wed, 04/01/2023 - 12:08The rapid relaxation of China's zero-covid lockdowns is a direct consequence of the mass protests that have shaken the country. Read more...
For a Revolutionary Year of Struggle in 2023
New Year’s Statement of the League for the Fifth International Sat, 31/12/2022 - 12:28The year 2022 saw a series of inter-related crises wracking the world. There were the wars in Ukraine, Tigray, Yemen, and Myanmar, and a “cold war” launched by Nato. Read more...
1917 in Russia - two revolutions and a turning point in history - the first workers state. First published in 1987 this is an updated version using re-edited material serialised in Workers Power in 2007.
First published by Workers Power in 2000.