7 May statement of the Revolutionary Socialist Movement, on the India-Pakistan conflict

By KD Tait The first 100 days of Donald Trump’s return to the White House have confirmed the reactionary character of his administration. Far from an aberration, Trump’s second term marks a further degeneration of American capitalism, increasingly turning to repression, militarism, and the stoking of fascistic tendencies. Trump’s return—facilitated by the cowardice and complicity […]

By Zara Ali This May marks 77 years since the Nakba, the violent expulsion of over 750,000 Palestinians from their homeland. This caused 15,000 deaths, an influx of settlers, and the creation of the state of Israel in 1948.  After the Holocaust, Western powers began shutting their doors to Jewish refugees and raising the ‘solution’ […]

After months of starvation, the Israeli army is preparing to occupy the strip indefinitely

A statement by communists in Pakistan against the new war danger in occupied Kashmir

A powerful indictment of Israeli's crimes is subjected to friendly fire

The reverent subordination to the supreme ruler of the Catholic Church is a reflection of large parts of the left's adaption to bourgeois society

By Martin Suchanek The bilateral Russia-US talks for a 30 day-ceasefire are in a crisis. Donald Trump says he is ‘very angry’ and ‘pissed off’ with Putin for attacking Zelensky’s credibility and demanding a UN administration replace him as a condition for a ceasefire. Trump, in turn, is threatening to impose a 50% tariff on […]

By Dave Stockton On 18 March at 2.10am Israel restarted bombing the homes of civilians across Gaza, ending the two-month ceasefire. Its pretext was that Hamas would not agree to an extension of stage one, which would allow Israel Defence Forces to remain in the Strip indefinitely, while all the hostages are released. As we […]

By Jeremy Dewar Three months after the fall of Assad, the new Syrian regime, led by interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), is facing its stiffest test: a test that goes to the core of the HTS’ sectarian and anti-democratic politics. While part of the threat originates from former forces of the […]

A Columbia University SAW-UAW writes on the repression of the Palestine solidarity movement

By Dave Stockton As we go to press, stage one of the Gaza ceasefire is due to end on 1 March. However, Netanyahu’s war cabinet has been repeatedly delayed negotiations on stage two, which should have started on 4 February. The Israeli prime minister has also held back the release of Palestinian detainees, many held […]

By Jeremy Dewar In less than three weeks the Rwandan-backed M23 militia swept through the mineral-rich provinces of North and South Kivu, in eastern Congo, leaving a trail of destruction. Over half a million people have been forced to flee in terror, many not for the first time. In late January, the M23 ‘rebels’ surrounded […]

By Martin Suchanek, ArbeiterInnenmacht, Berlin The Christian Democrat leader Friedrich Merz will almost certainly be the next Chancellor of Germany, probably in a ‘grand coalition’ with the Social Democrats (SPD). With a high turnout (83%), the CDU/CSU conservatives came top with 28.5% of the vote, up 4.2% since 2021. They will have 208 members in […]

ArbetarmaktSwedish section of the League for the Fifth International The following statement was published by our comrades and sent to the union. On Tuesday 4 February, the dockers’ union launched a six-day blockade of all types of weaponry for Israel. This is really exemplary – exactly the kind of action that the workers’ movement needs! […]

By Andy Yorke The fall of the hated dictator Bashar al-Assad last year has left Syria devastated by fourteen years of war, prolonged and deepened by the rival regional powers, the US and Russia. As always it is women who bear the brunt. Ninety per cent of Syrians now live below the poverty line. Three-quarters […]

A change of strategy will see the US and Russia attempt to partition Ukraine By Dave Stockton Donald Trump’s first hundred days in office have put the tech broligarch motto ‘move fast and break things’ into action. A blitz of reactionary policies has dislodged longstanding pillars of the domestic and international US-based order. At home, […]

The noose is tightening while the world enables genocide.

Oligarchs and world leaders scramble to pay tribute.

There is the potential to rekindle the spirit of the 2011 uprising.

Donald Trump's second term sets the US on collision course with friends and enemies alike

Syrian revolutionaries can use the democratic opening to organise against the emergence of a new dictatorship

While a fragile ceasefire has been agreed in Gaza, Israel has turned its attention to the occupied West Bank.

Statement on foreign intervention following the overthrow of Assad

Donald Trump's re-election has dismayed the liberal centre who have no answer to the rise of right-wing populism

Israel's genocidal assault is prompting a generation of young Jewish people to play a leading role in Palestine solidarity campaigning.

Catastrophic flooding in southern Spain has provoked anger among residents who say the government's inaction made the crisis worse.

Donald Trump has promised to end the war, but a great power partition will plant the depth charge of future wars.

Before Trump’s inauguration brings new pressure for a ceasefire, Israel will attempt to complete the ethnic cleansing of northern Gaza

A review of Adrian Budd's new book on China