The 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...

The world is facing a crisis of even greater severity than the Great Recession of 2008-10. Read more...

On 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...

The wave of mass protests across the whole of China has finally forced Xi Jinping to begin relaxing the strictest conditions of the Zero Covid policy. Read more...

On the night of 19-20 November, Turkish armed forces started a full scale bombardment of Rojava, the Kurdish region of Syria. Read more...

The November 8 US midterm elections proved a shock to the commentators who predicted disaster for Biden and the Democrats. Read more...

The depth of the current movement in Iran can only be properly understood if we look at the social and economic developments of recent years and the regime's connection to capitalism.

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JEREMY HUNT has delivered a new austerity budget that offloads £55 billion of tax rises and spending cuts onto the backs of the poor and working class. Read more...

As the movement against the Ayatollahs' regime spread across Iran, the League for the Fifth International interviewed Ali Rezaei, an Iranian socialist. Read more...

The Iranian revolution has reached a critical point. For weeks, thousands, probably millions in total, have been taking to the streets. Read more...

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The Twentieth Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, CCP, predictably, went according to plan. Well, almost. Read more...

The United Nations Security Council is debating a call by its Secretary-General, António Guterres, for "armed action" to free up Haiti’s main port and create a humanitarian corridor to solve what he c Read more...

BREXIT HAS claimed its fourth prime minister in six years. Liz Truss promised “growth, growth, growth” — and the markets replied “no, no, no”. Read more...

For almost a year, the French workers have mobilised in a series of strikes across the country which gained momentum after the summer. Read more...

We mourn the death of Jina Mahsa Amini. Mahsa was a young Kurdish woman who died in the custody of Iran’s morality police. She was not the first, many a woman before her died silently. Read more...

The result of the 2022 election represents more than just a parliamentary victory for the right. Sweden will now have a government focused on militant class struggle from above. Read more...

The Russian army's significant losses of occupied Ukrainian territories in September has faced Putin and his regime with the possibility of defeat. Read more...

Against the run of the country’s opinion polls, which showed Lula da Silva might win outright in the first round of Brazil’s presidential election on October 2, the result was 47.9 percent for Lula an Read more...

For months now, Pakistan's people have suffered under one of the most severe floods ever recorded. Read more...

As expected, Giorgia Meloni and her ultra-reactionary Fratelli d'Italia party emerged victorious in the September 25 election. She will therefore be at the head of the next government. Read more...

The Brazilian economy has been in crisis for almost a decade. This formerly "emerging market" is plagued by stagnation, inflation, and unemployment. Read more...

At first sight, Kwasi Kwarteng's "mini-budget" looks like nothing more than pandering to the Tory members who voted for Liz Truss. Read more...

In Pakistan, floods started in June and peaked in mid-August leaving almost 1500 people dead even according to official figures, which are likely to be an underestimation. Read more...

What more could a woman want?
Freedom to dress the way I want
Freedom to believe what I want
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Hour after hour of obsequious commentary, constant updating on the progress of the coffin towards London, an uninterrupted procession of has-beens and would-be's boosting their own importance by recal Read more...

The election campaign is now entering its feverish final stages. Read more...

At the age of 91, Mikhail Gorbachev, the last president of the Soviet Union and party leader of the CPSU, died on August 30 in Moscow. –

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In July 2012, Kurdish armed forces took political control in the regions of Kobanê, Afrin and al-Hasakah in northern Syria. Read more...

Somalia, as well as parts of Ethiopia and northern Kenya, is once again facing severe famine because of extreme and worsening drought in the Horn of Africa. Read more...