Belarus: Protest movement stagnates as Lukashenko consolidates control
Urte March Tue, 20/10/2020 - 11:16Anti-regime protests in Belarus are continuing for a tenth week; meanwhile, embattled president Alexander Lukashenko was formally inaugurated in late September. Read more...
Solidarity with Baloch student long march!
League for the Fifth International Sun, 11/10/2020 - 11:33The League for the Fifth International sends its solidarity to the Baloch student long march for education from Multan to Islamabad. Read more...
Solidarity? Responsibility? Deportation! - The EU Commission's plan for a new asylum system
Jürgen Roth, Neue Internationale 250,Berlin, October 2020 Wed, 07/10/2020 - 12:01Solidarity? Responsibility? Deportation! - The EU Commission's plan for a new asylum system
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Austria: The LINKS campaign in Vienna city elections
Interview with Heidi Rieder, Neue Internationale 250, Berlin, October 2020 Tue, 06/10/2020 - 08:30The Arbeiter*innenstandpunkt, the Austrian section of the League for the Fifth International, is calling for a vote for the LINKS list in the Vienna municipal elections. Read more...
Germany: 30 years of reunification, nothing to celebrate
Bruno Tesch Fri, 02/10/2020 - 21:36The big celebration in Potsdam for Germany's Day of Unity had to be cancelled because of the pandemic. Read more...
War over Nagorno-Karabakh threatens to become a conflagration
Martin Suchanek Fri, 02/10/2020 - 11:05On the morning of September 27, the growing conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which had been more or less openly carried on for more than three years, escalated. Read more...
Louisville Grand Jury decides Black Lives do not Matter
Dave Stockton Fri, 25/09/2020 - 13:10Once again, protests against police racism have erupted across the nation. Read more...
Pakistan: No to cuts in education! Solidarity with student protests in Punjab!
International Secretariat, League for the Fifth International Fri, 25/09/2020 - 10:00The League for the Fifth International sends solidarity to the students of Bahauddin Zakaria University, in Multan, and Islamia University, in Bahawalpur, who have been protesting against threats to t Read more...
Sri Lanka: Rajapakse's constitutional power grab
Peter Main Tue, 22/09/2020 - 15:45Today, September 22, President Gothabaya Rajapakse took full advantage of his victory in the August parliamentary elections to introduce sweeping constitutional reforms that will make that parliament Read more...
Hypocrisy and fundamentalism: the attacks on women's rights in post-coup Brazil
Liga Socialista, Brazil Sun, 20/09/2020 - 12:35On 27 August 2020, the Bolsonaro government carried out yet another vicious attack on women's rights. Read more...
European state racism makes Lesbos a prison camp
Robert Teller Sat, 19/09/2020 - 10:27Greek police are now moving refugees into a new camp, Kara Tepe, on the island of Lesbos. Read more...
Britain: Tories could unleash a second wave by reopening schools
UCU rep, redflagonline, September 3, 2020 Mon, 07/09/2020 - 16:08As schools and colleges across the country reopen, the National Education Union (NEU) has accused Tory ministers of being “negligent in the extreme”. Read more...
Germany: Crisis, pandemic and the looming flood of corona deniers
Martin Suchanek, GAM Infomail 1116, September 1, 2020 Fri, 04/09/2020 - 13:46The second wave of corona deniers, ranging from Querdenken 711 ("Lateral Thinking 711") to the Alternative fuer Deutschland, AfD and various right-wing groups to the Reich Citizens, the Identitarian M Read more...
USA: Kenosha shootings show need for self defence
Dave Stockton Tue, 01/09/2020 - 17:17In Kenosha, Wisconsin, at 5.00 pm. on Sunday, 23 August, Jacob Blake was shot seven times in the back whilst getting into his car, by a police officer, Rusten Sheskey. Read more...
Mali: Mass protests and coup
Robert Teller, GAM Infomail No 1115, August 27, 2020 Fri, 28/08/2020 - 12:17The coup in Bamako on 18 August drew attention to a mass movement that had previously received little attention. Read more...
250 years of Hegel: the philosophical master of the Dialectic
Gerald Falke, Neue Internationale 248, July/August 2020 Thu, 27/08/2020 - 12:01In the classical German history of philosophy, Hegel's work is regarded by some as its crowning achievement and, by others, as a thoroughly incomprehensible way of thinking or a particularly dangerous Read more...
The 80th anniversary of the death of Leon Trotsky
Dave Stockton Fri, 21/08/2020 - 17:37It is 80 years today since Leon Trotsky, aged 60, died at 7.25 pm in a hospital in Mexico City from a wound inflicted the day before by Ramón Mercader, an agent of Joseph Stalin the then all-powerful Read more...
USA: “Top Cop” Kamala Harris: The New Face of Oppression and Repression
Marcus Otono Thu, 20/08/2020 - 21:52With the selection of Senator Kamala Harris who, as California’s chief prosecutor, liked to call herself the state’s Top Cop, Joe Biden has driven the final nail in the coffin of the brief “socialist” Read more...
Pakistan: Justice for Hayat Baloch and all other victims of repression!
International Secretariat, League for the Fifth International Thu, 20/08/2020 - 16:39Solidarity with the day of action on August 22 Read more...
Sri Lanka: Sinhala chauvinists strengthen their grip
Peter Main Wed, 19/08/2020 - 09:35Sri Lanka's general election, held on August 5, gave a landslide victory to the Sri Lanka Freedom Alliance, the electoral bloc dominated by the President, Gotabhaya Rajapakse and his brother, Mahinda Read more...
Belarus: From rigged elections to open revolt
Urte March Tue, 18/08/2020 - 11:31The uprising in Belarus has reached a decisive point, as President Alexander Lukashenko told workers demanding his resignation and democratic elections, “as long as you don’t kill me, there won’t be a Read more...
Bolivia: The fight for democracy is the struggle for revolution!
Dave Stockton Wed, 12/08/2020 - 13:52A wave of strikes and blockades, called by the trade union federation, COB, and an alliance of peasant and indigenous organisations has paralysed Bolivia after the Supreme Electoral Court, TSE, announ Read more...
Lebanon: The Revolution has begun
Dilara Lorin, Martin Suchanek Mon, 10/08/2020 - 09:05The explosion of 2750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate in the port of Beirut on August 4, which killed 154 people and injured over 5,000, left the city in devastation. Read more...
Germany: The second wave of the corona-sceptics?
Wilhelm Schulz, GAM Infomail 1113, 3, August 2020 Fri, 07/08/2020 - 15:05It was an eerie sight: up to 30,000 corona "sceptics" and direct deniers of the pandemic demonstrating in Berlin on August 1. Read more...
Pakistan: Find Amin Now! Internationalist solidarity with missing IMT comrade
International Secretariat, League for the Fifth International Wed, 29/07/2020 - 15:47We have received deeply concerning reports about the enforced disappearance of Muhammad Amin, a 26-year-old socialist activist and member of the International Marxist Tendency’s Pakistan section. Read more...
The Pandemic, the crisis and the struggle of the Indian working class
Irfan Khan Tue, 28/07/2020 - 08:25In India, almost one and a half million people have been infected by the coronavirus by the end of July. On 26.7. Read more...
Germany: Government pulling out of a nosedive ?
Jürgen Roth; neue Internationale 248, Juli/August 2020 Sat, 25/07/2020 - 15:11A crisis was not unexpected in 2020. Many Marxists, including us, had predicted it long before the Corona pandemic, although not its historical extent. Read more...
USA: Trump toys with a Police State
Dave Stockton Wed, 22/07/2020 - 14:24For the last ten days, Donald Trump has been trialling a presidential coup d’etat, starting in Portland, Oregon but now being extended to Chicago. Read more...
The global crisis, the working class and the Left
International Executive Committee Sat, 18/07/2020 - 11:15During the first half of 2020, all countries experienced a massive shrinkage of GDP and industrial production. Read more...
Israel's annexation policy: For the socialist one-state solution!
Robert Teller, Neue International 248, July/August 2020 Wed, 15/07/2020 - 14:31Israel's Netanyahu-Gantz government, formed at the end of April and consisting of the two major right-wing parties, Likud and "Blue-White", announced it would formally complete the annexation of the J Read more...