The attack on the Karachi stock exchange
International Secretariat, League for the Fifth International Thu, 02/07/2020 - 15:29On June 29, 10 people were killed in an attack on the Karachi Stock Exchange by four assailants who launched a bomb attack and then opened fire with guns. Read more...
Hungary: Orban uses pandemic to attack trans rights
Rebecca Anderson, redflagonline Tue, 30/06/2020 - 16:05ON 30 March Hungary’s parliament granted Viktor Orban power to rule by decree for an indefinite period. 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...
Pakistan: Solidarity with Baloch movement for justice
Beberg Baloch, published in solidarity with Baloch Student Organisation Sun, 14/06/2020 - 08:32Balochistan has witnessed mass upheavals throughout the province after what has become known as the Dannuk Incident. Read more...
USA: Self-defence is no Offence! Solidarity with the #blacklivesmatter rebellion!
Martin Suchanek and Jaqueline Katherina Singh Tue, 09/06/2020 - 19:25George Floyd was murdered in a brutal and cowardly fashion by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on a public street in front of bystanders on the morning of May 25th. 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...
Police Murder of George Floyd - NOT ONE MORE!
Jamie Kruger, Minneapolis Mon, 01/06/2020 - 09:56When officer Derek Chauvin was kneeling on George Floyd’s neck on a Minneapolis street last Monday, it probably felt like routine to the white man who has a long record of abuse and excessive force. 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...
Hungary: Orban used pandemic to attack trans rights
Rebecca Anderson, reflagonline Wed, 06/05/2020 - 19:52ON 30 March Hungary’s parliament granted Viktor Orban power to rule by decree for an indefinite period. Read more...
Pakistan: Justice for Arif Wazir, Sajid Hussain! Find Shahab Rehmat now!
International Secretariat, League for the Fifth International Sun, 03/05/2020 - 08:47On May 1, news broke that the body of the missing Baloch journalist, Sajid Hussain, 39, had been recovered from a river in Sweden. Read more...
The Labour left after Corbyn: A chance to break with strategy of compromise
Urte March, redflagonline Sat, 02/05/2020 - 18:03Two successive election defeats, ending with Jeremy Corbyn’s replacement as leader of the Labour Party by Keir Starmer, have opened a debate about the balance sheet of the Corbyn project, the objectiv 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: Vote for the lesser evil? NO – form a working class party!
Christian Gebhardt Fri, 24/04/2020 - 12:42The timing of Bernie Sanders' decision to back Joe Biden, calling him “a very decent man”, may seem strange, coming at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic when the need for Medicare for All was never 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...
Hell on Earth – refugees herded together like animals
Dilara Lorin, GAM Infomail 1096, March 2020 Sat, 11/04/2020 - 11:12Only a few weeks ago, it was thought a scandal when Turkey opened its borders with the EU, despite the fact that the EU offered Ankara several billion euros a year to prevent refugees crossing that bo Read more...
Brazil: The Covid-19 crisis and the challenges for the working class
Liga Socialista, Brazil Thu, 09/04/2020 - 10:21An economic crisis in Brazil was already sharpening during President Rousseff's first term but, with the coup that brought her down, the crisis got even worse and also became a political crisis. Read more...
Germany: Covid-19 and domestic violence
Jonathan Frühling. Neue Internationale 245, April 2020 Wed, 08/04/2020 - 09:46It is often claimed that the bourgeois family is a place of security, protection and the closest solidarity in society. 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...
Electoral opportunism in Sri Lanka
International Secretariat, April 6, 2020 Tue, 07/04/2020 - 11:42At its meeting on April 5, 2020, the International Executive Committee representing all the sections of the League for the Fifth International had the regrettable task of expelling its Sri Lankan sect Read more...
Covid-19:From pandemic to global economic crisis (2)
Markus Lehner, translated from Neue Internationale 245, April, 2020 Sat, 04/04/2020 - 11:56Part 2: The impending disaster Read more...
Covid-19:From pandemic to global economic crisis
Markus Lehner, translated from Neue Internationale 245, April, 2020 Fri, 03/04/2020 - 12:58Part 1: The impending collapse of the health care system Read more...