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...
Biden bans railroad strike
Dave Stockton, Workers Power 399, London, December 2022 Sat, 24/12/2022 - 10:56As railworkers in Britain face Tory threats to make their strikes ineffective by ‘minimum service’ laws, 115,000 US freight railworkers have just had their strike vote for decent working conditions ‘s Read more...
Britain’s Winter of Discontent
Dave Stockton Tue, 20/12/2022 - 10:25Britain is facing a “winter of discontent” in the shape of the biggest wave of strikes for many years. Read more...
Would the real NPA please stand up?
Marc Lassalle, Workers Power 299, December 2022 Mon, 19/12/2022 - 16:18The long death agony of the French Nouveau parti anticapitaliste has reached its terminal stage following a walk-out of its recent conference by the former leadership. Read more...
Declaration of the 2022 Congress of the League for the Fifth International
International Secretariat, League for the Fifth International Wed, 14/12/2022 - 11:38The world is facing a crisis of even greater severity than the Great Recession of 2008-10. Read more...
Germany: Right-wing coup plotters: A portent of things to come?
Martin Suchanek, Berlin Wed, 14/12/2022 - 10:51On 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...
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.