Two 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...

The impending catastrophe and how to fight it

We will not pay for the pandemic! We will not pay for the crisis! Read more...

Since 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...

We'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...

The 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...

So much of capitalism in crisis is like the movie Groundhog Day. Read more...

The 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...

Only 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...

An 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...

It is often claimed that the bourgeois family is a place of security, protection and the closest solidarity in society. Read more...

A Continent in Crisis Read more...

On the fundamental contradictions between sustainability and the capitalist mode of production

Contents
Introduction
Green Economy - the wrong answers of capitalism Read more...

At 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...

Part 2: The impending disaster Read more...

Part 1: The impending collapse of the health care system Read more...

The corona epidemic has the United States in its grip. Daily we hear about a rising number of infected individuals and sadly the number of deaths is also steadily rising. Read more...

Iran now ranks fourth in the world for total number of deaths from coronavirus. The death toll currently stands at over 2,700, with each day bringing hundreds of new victims. Read more...

“We are at war. The whole action of the government and of Parliament should now be turned towards the combat against the epidemic. […] We are at war. Read more...

According to official data, six people have died in Pakistan while 878 have tested positive for coronavirus at the time of writing this report. Read more...

"We must do everything we can to show the cohesion in our country" - said German Chancellor Angela Merkel at a press conference on 12 March. Read more...

Iraq’s revolutionary democratic protest movement, which started on October 1, 2019, is facing its biggest test yet, as interim Prime Minister Mohammad Allawi is set to announce his government, designe Read more...

Our thanks to our guest writer, Mira Ghaib, in Delhi, for this contribution on the situation in India.

The Road Less Taken or Treading the Same Old Path – Read more...

On the night of 23 February, whilst Donald Trump and Narendra Modi were engaged in mutual admiration in Ahmedabad, the capital of Modi’s home state of Gujarat, Muslims in Delhi were subjected to the f Read more...

Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people are fleeing what is left of their homes in Syria. Read more...

On January 25/26, Frankfurt/Main saw a “Conference on Strategy” organised by and for left trade unionists. About 150 militants answered the call from the Network for Militant Trade-unions, VKG. Read more...

Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange is now on trial at Woolwich crown court in south-east London to decide whether he will be extradited to the United States, where he faces 18 charges of breaching the Read more...

Nine lives were lost in the most recent extreme right-wing terrorist attack in Germany. Read more...

"Hegel remarks somewhere that all facts and personages of great importance in world history occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce." Read more...

Ireland’s 7 February election delivered a stunning result for Sinn Féin. Read more...