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...
Myanmar: Tatmadaw escalate the killings
Dave Stockton Wed, 31/03/2021 - 10:57The Tatmadaw, the mass murderers who rule Myanmar, are escalating the death toll on their own people. Read more...
USA: The Roots of the Rise in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes
Benji Weiss, Workers Power USA Tue, 30/03/2021 - 17:42IN the year since the murder of George Floyd, the harsh reality of the racism still experienced by African Americans, 150 years after the abolition of slavery and half a century since the civil rights Read more...
Germany: Riding a political roller-coaster instead of fighting the pandemic
Martin Suchanek, Neue Internationale 254, April 2021 Fri, 26/03/2021 - 22:36The stalemate goes on. Read more...
Austria: LINKS Conference - A Political Change in Austria?
Arbeiter*innenstandpunkt Tue, 23/03/2021 - 19:16Recently, the new Viennese party LINKS (left in German) held its annual conference. Read more...
Germany: The state elections and the fall of the CDU
Robert Teller, Neue Internationale 254, April 2021 Mon, 22/03/2021 - 10:53In the run-up to the elections, the state elections in Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Württemberg were regarded by the bourgeois public as indicators of the coming federal elections. Read more...
Police crackdown on women's protests
Dave Stocking Sat, 20/03/2021 - 00:00Women Protesting Femicide Met by Police Violence Read more...
The Paris Commune: Expropriation of the expropriators
Janosch Janglo Thu, 18/03/2021 - 07:58150 years ago, on 18 March 1871, after France had been defeated in the Franco-Prussian war, the French army planned to disarm the National Guard of Paris and seize 227 artillery pieces that the people Read more...
We will not be Silenced: Solidarity with Pakistan's Women's Movement
League for the Fifth International Wed, 17/03/2021 - 13:26In Pakistan, violence against women and rape cases doubled in the last six months of 2020, cases of child abuse even tripled. Read more...
The covid healthcare crisis in the USA
Rebecca Anderson Fri, 12/03/2021 - 00:00Coronavirus spread uncontrolled across all fifty states, causing millions of infections and hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths. Read more...
The pandemic and the double burden for women
Jaqueline Katharina Singh Fri, 12/03/2021 - 00:00For more than a year, the pandemic has been turning our lives upside down. Read more...
A critique of Identity as a political programme
Martin Suchanek Fri, 12/03/2021 - 00:00„We believe that the most profound and potentially radical politics come directly from our own identity.“ (Combahee River Collective, 1977) Read more...
Myanmar: Resistance to coup continues, solidarity with workers and youth
Dave Stockton Wed, 10/03/2021 - 13:26March has witnessed a steep escalation of repression by Myanmar’s military – the Tatmadaw - against completely peaceful and unarmed demonstrators. Read more...
USA: Support Bessemer workers - and imitate them
Dave Stockton Mon, 08/03/2021 - 09:16A labour organising drive in the town of Bessemer, Alabama, (population 26,680) has caught the attention of trade unionists and socialists worldwide. The reason? Read more...
International Women’s Day, 2021
League for the Fifth International Sat, 06/03/2021 - 20:192020 will long be remembered for the enormous scale of the public health, economic and social crisis triggered by Covid19. Read more...
Imperialist countries' hoarding vaccine risks prolonging pandemic
Rebecca Anderson, redflagonline Thu, 04/03/2021 - 10:22Imperialist countries have pre-ordered enough vaccines to inoculate their populations many times over. Read more...
General strike and giant demonstrations rock Myanmar’s military
Dave Stockton Tue, 23/02/2021 - 17:27Vast crowds have packed the streets of the cities of Myanmar (Burma) in the largest day of protests thus far against the February 1 takeover by the corrupt and brutal Tatmadaw, the country’s armed for Read more...
Russia: The Navalny case and the Putin regime
Robert Teller Mon, 22/02/2021 - 16:42On 20 February, the latest act in the legal farce surrounding Alexei Navalny, the figurehead of the bourgeois Russian opposition, came to a close. Read more...
USA: Biden promises to "build back better"
Dave Stockton, Red Flag No 38, February, 2021 Sun, 14/02/2021 - 09:49Most of the world’s political leaders are rejoicing over the replacement of Donald Trump by Joe Biden. Read more...
The return of the USA
Dave Stockton, Red Flag No 38, February, 2021 Fri, 12/02/2021 - 18:50“America is Back!” was the message of Joe Biden’s first major speech on foreign affairs. Read more...
Elections in Kosovo - What can we expect from Vetevendosje?
Hasan S.Kuqi/Franz Ickstatt Fri, 12/02/2021 - 12:10February 14 will see the voters in Kosovo go the polls to elect a new parliament, just 16 months after the last elections and after two governments collapsed within a year. Read more...
Uganda's stolen election
Jeremy Dewar, redflagonline Wed, 10/02/2021 - 17:55While in the US an ageing president’s attempt to maintain his grip on power by invoking violence has caused shock waves around the world, in parts of Africa such acts are sadly commonplace. Read more...
The military coup in Myanmar – from resistance to revolution
International Secretariat, League for the Fifth International Tue, 09/02/2021 - 14:29For several days now, demonstrations numbering hundreds of thousands have filled the streets of Myanmar’s largest city, Yangon, its second city, Mandalay, the capital, Naypyidaw, and many other cities Read more...
The house always wins: what we can learn from the Gamestop stock war
Rob Schofield, redflagonline Fri, 05/02/2021 - 12:00The financial world has been thrown into disarray at the start of 2021 as the stock price for GameStop, a US based brick-and-mortar video game retailer, skyrocketed by 8000%, hitting a peak of $469 pe Read more...
Austria: Corona demonstrations: Fascist marches or harmless confusion?
Alex Zora Thu, 04/02/2021 - 12:37In recent weeks, Austria has seen an upswing in the mobilization of “Corona-sceptics”. Read more...
Down with Bolsonaro! Motorcades across the country demand impeachment
Carlos Uchoa Magrini, Assyria Conti Tue, 02/02/2021 - 15:18The dissatisfaction of the Brazilian population with the Bolsonaro government has been growing ever since its inauguration. Read more...
India: Workers' and Farmers' Unity can halt Modi’s neoliberal onslaught
Bernie McAdam Mon, 01/02/2021 - 21:49Indian farmers and farm labourers are engaged in a massive struggle to repeal three agricultural laws, passed by parliament in September, that will deregulate and further privatise the rural economy. Read more...
A step in the right direction: Zero Covid!
Markus Lehner, Neue Internationale 253, February 2021 Thu, 28/01/2021 - 16:01The Corona pandemic, with its more than 2 million deaths worldwide so far, is certainly the most dangerous fast-spreading global epidemic since the Spanish flu. 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.