The Arbeiter*innenstandpunkt, the Austrian section of the League for the Fifth International, is calling for a vote for the LINKS list in the Vienna municipal elections. Read more...

The big celebration in Potsdam for Germany's Day of Unity had to be cancelled because of the pandemic. Read more...

On the morning of September 27, the growing conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which had been more or less openly carried on for more than three years, escalated. Read more...

Once again, protests against police racism have erupted across the nation. Read more...

The League for the Fifth International sends solidarity to the students of Bahauddin Zakaria University, in Multan, and Islamia University, in Bahawalpur, who have been protesting against threats to t Read more...

Today, September 22, President Gothabaya Rajapakse took full advantage of his victory in the August parliamentary elections to introduce sweeping constitutional reforms that will make that parliament Read more...

On 27 August 2020, the Bolsonaro government carried out yet another vicious attack on women's rights. Read more...

Greek police are now moving refugees into a new camp, Kara Tepe, on the island of Lesbos. Read more...

As schools and colleges across the country reopen, the National Education Union (NEU) has accused Tory ministers of being “negligent in the extreme”. Read more...

The second wave of corona deniers, ranging from Querdenken 711 ("Lateral Thinking 711") to the Alternative fuer Deutschland, AfD and various right-wing groups to the Reich Citizens, the Identitarian M Read more...

In 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...

The coup in Bamako on 18 August drew attention to a mass movement that had previously received little attention. Read more...

In the classical German history of philosophy, Hegel's work is regarded by some as its crowning achievement and, by others, as a thoroughly incomprehensible way of thinking or a particularly dangerous Read more...

It 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...

With the selection of Senator Kamala Harris who, as California’s chief prosecutor, liked to call herself the state’s Top Cop, Joe Biden has driven the final nail in the coffin of the brief “socialist” Read more...

Solidarity with the day of action on August 22 Read more...

Sri 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...

The 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...

A 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...

The 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...

It was an eerie sight: up to 30,000 corona "sceptics" and direct deniers of the pandemic demonstrating in Berlin on August 1. Read more...

We have received deeply concerning reports about the enforced disappearance of Muhammad Amin, a 26-year-old socialist activist and member of the International Marxist Tendency’s Pakistan section. Read more...

In India, almost one and a half million people have been infected by the coronavirus by the end of July. On 26.7. Read more...

A 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...

For 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...

During the first half of 2020, all countries experienced a massive shrinkage of GDP and industrial production. Read more...

Israel's Netanyahu-Gantz government, formed at the end of April and consisting of the two major right-wing parties, Likud and "Blue-White", announced it would formally complete the annexation of the J Read more...

Perspectives 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...

On July 1, Beijing’s National Security Law, NSL, was imposed on Hong Kong. Read more...

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