Vast 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...

On 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...

Most of the world’s political leaders are rejoicing over the replacement of Donald Trump by Joe Biden. Read more...

“America is Back!” was the message of Joe Biden’s first major speech on foreign affairs. Read more...

February 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...

While 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...

For 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 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...

In recent weeks, Austria has seen an upswing in the mobilization of “Corona-sceptics”. Read more...

The dissatisfaction of the Brazilian population with the Bolsonaro government has been growing ever since its inauguration. Read more...

Indian 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...

The 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...

For several years, Europe has been at a crossroads. The way forward concerns first the EU and the Eurozone, but of course also the countries outside the confederation, above all, Russia and Britain. Read more...

On 9 December, France’s prime minister, Jean Castex, held a press conference to announce the publication of a "draft law to strengthen republican values", aimed at defending secularism (Laïcité) and f Read more...

On the night of January 15-16, 1919, Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, heroic pioneers and front line fighters of the revolution sweeping Germany and Europe, were brutally murdered by the Freikorps Read more...

As reports of the Pakistani state preparing a major police operation against Kashmiris pour in, the League for the Fifth International sends solidarity to the people of Kashmir who went on strike on t Read more...

In the dying days of his presidency, the chaos Donald Trump is inciting at home is matched by calculated provocations abroad. Read more...

The storming of the US Capitol by a mob of fascists, at the instigation of Donald Trump, was an abortive attempt by the cornered but still vicious President to coerce the Congress (and the Vice Presid Read more...

Few people will mourn the passing of 2020 – a dark year for millions who lost their jobs as huge numbers of businesses closed due to lockdowns or struggled on furlough schemes paying well below normal Read more...

Whatever a narrow majority of the electorate imagined they would get when they voted to Leave the European Union, the strategists who planned Brexit knew exactly what they wanted. Read more...

Hundreds of thousands of farmers from all over India started the Delhi Chalo (Let us go to Delhi) March on November 25 at the behest of the All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, which cons Read more...

After weeks of wrangling with Poland and Hungary, the German Council presidency just managed to avoid the EU's next looming disaster. Read more...

The importance of the second and final round of Brazil's municipal elections, on November 29, lies not so much in the precise numbers of votes cast as in what they tell us of the political situation i Read more...

It's tempting to look at Joseph Robinette Biden’s 50 year career in politics, 48 of them on the national level in the Senate and as Vice President, and do a “hot take” on how he will govern and what h Read more...

On 29 October 2020, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Leader from September 2015 to April 2020, was suspended from party membership and had his membership of the Parliamentary Labour Party withdrawn. Read more...

The second wave of the pandemic, combined with a second month-long lockdown, are certainly far from the best conditions to organise a fight back against President Emmanuel Macron’s draconian new globa Read more...

The 200th anniversary Friedrich Engels' birth, gives us an opportunity to look back over his remarkable life and recall the importance of his contribution to what became known as Marxism and to the fo Read more...

Since the morning of November 26, a massive general strike is sweeping across India. Trade Unions expect up to 250 million participants. Read more...

Ever since a general election in September 2018 produced a hung parliament, Sweden has limped from one near-crisis to the next. Read more...

There are many countries that do very well, if not better, without a king. And then there is Thailand, where the hashtag #WhyDoWeNeedAKing is considered an insult to the majesty of the monarch. Read more...