For the first time since the 1990s, war drums are beating again in Europe. The issue is the escalating conflict between Russia and NATO over Ukraine. Read more...

Something is happening with the US working class despite the resurgence of the pandemic with the Omicron wave. They are awakening to militancy. Read more...

Less than a hundred days before the first round of the presidential election on April 10, the strike by French teachers has been massive, determined and very combative. Read more...

At its meeting on January 10, the International Secretariat agreed to support this statement of solidarity, originally proposed by the Irish TD, Paul Murphy. Read more...

Once more, across the length and breadth of Sudan, we are witnessing a massive revolutionary upsurge against the military junta of General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his deputy, General Mohamed Hamdan Read more...

Mass protests have been rocking Kazakhstan since the beginning of the year. Read more...

As we enter 2022, the struggle for the redivision of the world between the old and the recently “promoted’ imperialist powers is intensifying. Read more...

Anti-apartheid activist and liberation theologian Desmond Tutu died after a long battle with cancer on Boxing Day, aged 90. Read more...

On 19 December 2021, Gabriel Boric defeated José Antonio Kast in the second round of Chile’s presidential election, obtaining 55.9 percent of the votes. Read more...

Almost three months after the general election, Germany has a new government. Read more...

The League for the Fifth International is deeply concerned over reports of the rape and torture of a climate activist on the night before the December 12 Climate March in Karachi. Read more...

On 19 December, the hard-fought and highly polarised run-off election for the presidency in Chile will take place. Read more...

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The horrific scenes of families, including young children, starving and freezing on the Belarusian border represent a new low for human rights in the recent history of Europe. Read more...

The Argentinian mid-term congressional elections produced dramatic results. Read more...

Massive controversy has followed the 19 November acquittal of rightwing vigilante Kyle Rittenhouse in the US. Read more...

After a year of courageous struggle, Indian farmers have humbled India’s “strongman" Narendra Modi. Modi had to broadcast to the nation that he intended to repeal the neoliberal agricultural laws. Read more...

In Germany, as in other European countries, the fourth wave of the covid pandemic is gaining momentum. Read more...

In the latest tragedy in the English Channel, at least 27 refugees, including five women and a young girl, drowned when their inflatable dinghy capsized in the icy waters. Read more...

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First published in Fifth International 22.
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The conflict between the EU and Poland is escalating. The parliament and the government in Warsaw continue to refuse to recognise the superior character of EU law over national law. Read more...

ON THE border between Belarus and its EU neighbours; Poland, Latvia and Lithuania, refugees from the global south are once again being used as pawns in a vicious inter-state power struggle. Read more...

THE COP26 climate conference of world leaders, meeting this month in Glasgow, has been billed as the ‘last best chance to get runaway climate change under control’. Read more...

For many decades, Chile was one of the favourite countries of Wall Street & Co. The country was considered a model for neoliberalism's "way to the top". Read more...

ON SATURDAY 16 October tens of thousands attended an anti-fascist demonstration in Rome, called by the CGIL trade union, in response to a fascist attack on the union’s headquarters the previous week. Read more...

After 40 years of war Afghanistan momentarily seemed to be at peace after the Taliban took power for the second time in mid-August. But the Taliban have taken over a devastated country.
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On the morning of October 25, a coup was launched in Khartoum. Read more...

Less than a week after searches were carried out at the headquarters of the Austrian People's Party, ÖVP, and the Federal Chancellery, Sebastian Kurz was no longer Chancellor. Read more...

Even before September 26, it was certain that the Left Party, DIE LINKE, would lose votes and seats. Read more...