Brazil: the right wing threat and how to fight it
Carlos Uchoa Magrini, Assíria Conti Fri, 11/06/2021 - 17:28First published in Fifth International 22.
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Dirty talk: DSA congress clings to Democrats
Andy Yorke Fri, 11/06/2021 - 17:26First published in Fifth International 22.
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Marxism and Black Reparations
Marcus Otono Fri, 11/06/2021 - 17:25First published in Fifth International 22.
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Review: 32 Counties: The Failure of Partition and the Case for a United Ireland by Kieran Allan
Bernie McAdam Fri, 11/06/2021 - 17:24Kieran Allen’s latest book is a timely exposition of the case for a united Ireland. Read more...
Marxism and identity politics
Martin Suchanek Fri, 11/06/2021 - 12:44"We believe that the most profound and potentially radical politics come directly from our own identity." (Combahee River Collective, 1977) Read more...
Femicide in Austria
Aventina Holzer, AST 283 Mon, 07/06/2021 - 11:10Austria is one of the few EU countries where regularly more women are killed than men. In 2017, it was the only one. But what does this different profile of female homicides tell us? Read more...
Palestine: Key tasks for the resistance and the solidarity movement
League for the Fifth International Thu, 03/06/2021 - 13:05The mass response of the Palestinian people to the Israeli settler and police provocations in Sheikh Jarrah and at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the subsequent bombardment of Gaza and the political victory of t Read more...
Belarus: Lukashenko's struggle against the opposition and the new Cold War
Martin Suchanek, Neue International 256, Berlin, June 2021 Sun, 30/05/2021 - 20:28The forced landing of a Boeing 737 on 23 May represents another reckless blow by Belarusian President Lukashenko. Read more...
Palestine: huge demos must be followed up by mass action
Jeremy Dewar, redflagonline Fri, 28/05/2021 - 10:27Hundreds of thousands have flooded the streets of Britain over the course of 10 days in May, outraged at Israel’s onslaught on Palestinians first in East Jerusalem, then in Gaza, and then inside the b Read more...
Austria: Chancellor under investigation - The fish starts to rot from the head
Arbeiterinnenstandpunkt, Vienna Wed, 26/05/2021 - 11:25Many people have been waiting for something just like this: despite all the message control, the meticulously scripted speeches and the rhetorical tricks: the Federal Chancellor of Austria, Sebastian Read more...
Statement on the Israeli - Hamas Ceasefire
International Secretariat, League for the Fifth International Fri, 21/05/2021 - 18:03The ceasefire agreed between Israel and Hamas represents a victory for the Third Palestinian Intifada in all its components – Hamas’s unquelled rocket bombardment, the heroic resistance of the populat Read more...
Covid-19: India and Pakistan show need for global plan
Minerwa Tahir, RSM Fri, 21/05/2021 - 10:47As the second wave proves deadly on a large scale for India, the situation seems to be worsening, albeit on a smaller scale, in Pakistan. Read more...
Victory to the Palestinian Intifada!
Dave Stockton Thu, 20/05/2021 - 12:38The Western media’s propaganda, that the relentless bombing of Gaza is a defensive war in response to Hamas rockets fired into Israel, is a brazen lie. Read more...
Colombia: Solidarity with the mass uprising
Tom Burns, Workers Power, USA and Carlos Magrini, Liga Socialista, Brazil Sun, 16/05/2021 - 11:15Colombia’s far right president, Iván Duque, lit the fuse of an uprising by working-class and middle class Colombians with a proposed tax increase, raising $8bn ostensibly to pay down the country’s deb Read more...
Super Mario as the Saviour of Italian Capitalism?
Aventina Holzer/Martin Suchanek, Infomail 1149, 10 May 2021. Fri, 14/05/2021 - 11:38The formation of a "government of national unity" under Prime Minister and former ECB chief Mario Draghi appears to be the last resort to prevent a collapse of Italian capitalism, to lead the country Read more...
Partition: A "carnival of reaction" 100 years on
Bernie McAdam, Red Flag Thu, 13/05/2021 - 10:03James Connolly, the great Irish socialist, correctly predicted the consequence of the partition of Ireland would be a "carnival of reaction both north and south". Read more...
Halt Israeli aggression in Gaza and Jerusalem - for a third Intifada
Dilara Lorin, Martin Suchanek Wed, 12/05/2021 - 13:19Once again, Israeli warplanes are bombing the Gaza Strip, the world’s most densely populated area, packed with 1.5 million civilians, including more than one million refugees. Read more...
Bobby Sands: Irish Freedom Fighter, 1954-1981
Dara O’Cogaidhin, Red Flag Wed, 05/05/2021 - 18:02Forty years ago, on May 5th 1981, Bobby Sands died in Long Kesh prison after 66 days on hunger strike. He was the first of 10 Republican hunger strikers allowed to perish by the British government. Read more...
Brazil - like a powder keg
Liga Socialista, Brazil, translated from Neue Internationale 255, Mai 2021 Wed, 05/05/2021 - 13:11What we are witnessing in Brazil today is the continuation of the 2016 coup that overthrew President Dilma Rousseff, Workers' Party, PT. Read more...
USA: Andrew Brown Jr killing: Justice can only be won by mass action
Tom Burns, Raleigh, North Carolina Mon, 03/05/2021 - 10:28On April 21, police in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, shot Andrew Brown Jr in the back of the head. Read more...
1 May 2021: For socialist internationalism against the crises of capitalism
International secretariat Thu, 29/04/2021 - 14:24The triple crisis of global recession, pandemic and environmental destruction is shaping the situation of the working class and all the oppressed. Read more...
UK: Kill the Bill!
KD Tait , Red Flag Wed, 28/04/2021 - 10:17As the second covid lockdown draws to a close, social tensions are rising. Read more...
Pakistan: Clerical fascism rears its ugly head again
Minerwa Tahir Sat, 24/04/2021 - 14:52The forces of clerical fascism, embodied by the Tehreek Labbaik Pakistan, TLP, have asserted their growing strength with mass demonstrations across Pakistan. Read more...
George Floyd murder trial verdict: a first victory for mass action
Tom Burns, Workers Power, USA Wed, 21/04/2021 - 13:56Sweden: Nationwide demos against Social Democrat/Green plan for market rents
Arbetarmakt, Swedish section, League for the Fifth International Mon, 19/04/2021 - 11:42On July 1, the Swedish Social Democrat/Green government plans to enact a reform which will enable marketisation of rents on newly constructed public housing apartments. Read more...
USA: Police killings, this time it's Chicago
Tom Burns, Workers Power, USA Sun, 18/04/2021 - 17:49Late last month, a 13 year old boy named Adam Toledo was shot by Chicago police. Adam was a Latino. Immediately after the incident, Chicago police stated that there had been an “armed confrontation”. Read more...
UK: Unionism in crisis as Loyalists lash out
Bernie McAdam, Red Flag Thu, 15/04/2021 - 10:25For over a week, Loyalists have been attacking the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) in riots in Belfast, Derry and other parts of Northern Ireland. Read more...
USA: Daunte Wright’s murder shows police cannot be reformed
Tom Burns, Workers Power, USA Wed, 14/04/2021 - 07:46April 11, 2021 saw the murder at a traffic stop of Daunte Wright, aged 20, by police officers in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. Police allege that Mr. Read more...
Turkey: Solidarity with the HDP!
Dilara Lorin, GAM Infomail 1144, Berlin, 4 April 2021 Wed, 07/04/2021 - 15:16The ban on the only left-wing opposition party in the Turkish parliament, the HDP (Halkların Demokratik Partisi, Peoples' Democratic Party), was rejected once again by the Constitutional Court on 31 M 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.