International

For Workers’ Action To break links with Israel

Britain is a key link in Israel’s war machine, selling weapons, conducting research, and investing pension funds. It’s time to the break the link—no cooperation with occupation!

Dave Stockton  ·  12 January 2024

‘Two States’: The nature and purpose of a reactionary utopia

For more than 70 yrs Israel and its western allies have cloaked their disposition and ethnic cleansing of Palestine behind the supposed goal of the eventual Palestinian State. Why has it never been achieved?

Robert Teller  ·  12 January 2024

Israel & the illusion of national unity

Alex Rutherford explains the tensions between the different factions of Zionism and how these affect Israel’s war aims

Alex Rutherford  ·  12 January 2024

Pakistan: Stop the racist war on Afghan refugees!

On October 1, the Pakistani government gave an ultimatum to an estimated 1.7 million Afghan refugees.

Minerwa Tahir  ·  15 November 2023

Why we defend ‘from the river to the sea’

Andy MacDonald, Labour MP for Middlesbrough, has been suspended for using the phrase.

Workers Power  ·  13 November 2023

Hundreds of thousands march against Israel’s war. What next?

Workers' action can strengthen the global solidarity movement

KD Tait  ·  23 October 2023

End the siege of Gaza!

Victory to the resistance

Workers Power  ·  20 October 2023

Ethnic Cleansing in Nagorno Karabakh

Azerbaijan forces have expelled 100,000 ethnic Armenians from their homeland.

Workers Power  ·  15 October 2023

USA: Auto workers take on Big Three

By Andy Yorke On 14 September 2023, contract talks expired between the United Automobile Workers (UAW) and the traditional Big Three American car manufacturers (General Motors, Stellantis, and Ford Motor Company). Thirteen thousand workers from three major factories, one each from the Big Three, walked out – GM’s Wentzville Missouri assembly plant, the Ford Michigan […]

Andy Yorke  ·  13 October 2023

Defeat the Israeli oppressors – victory to the Palestinian resistance

By Dave Stockton On 7 October, at 6.30am local time, the Gaza-based Palestinian resistance movements; Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the PFLP and DFLP, launched a full scale offensive, with a barrage of missiles into Israel, some reaching Tel Aviv, 40 miles away. At the same time, their fighters, taking the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) by surprise, […]

Dave Stockton  ·  10 October 2023

Hindu extremism provokes ethnic cleansing in Manipur

When a video of two women paraded naked by a mob in the Indian state of Manipur went viral in July, it shone a light on the crimes of Modi’s India.

Bernie McAdam  ·  16 September 2023

BRICS+ Where next for the bloc of emerging economies?

At its August conference in South Africa, the BRICS group of ‘emerging markets’ (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) agreed to accept six new members.

Peter Main  ·  16 September 2023

What if the bosses fight back? The lessons of the Chilean Popular Unity 1970–1973

The events of 1970-73 hold vital lessons for us in a new period of revolutions and military coups.

Workers Power  ·  09 September 2023

Coups challenge French hold over former African colonies

The increasing power of China and Russia is giving coups more chance of success

Workers Power  ·  08 September 2023

Coup in Niger exposes acute crisis of Sahel region

The spate of coups across the region reveals intensifying imperialist struggle for control of key resources.

Dave Stockton  ·  07 August 2023

Pakistan: LQM mobilises tens of thousands for labour rights

The Pakistani working class is mobilising.

Workers Power  ·  22 July 2023

Oppressed French youth demand justice for Nahel!

27 June, Nanterre (a banlieue of Paris): two policemen stop a car, one shouting, ‘Open or I put a bullet in your head!’. Seconds later, a shot. 17-year-old Nahel M is dead.

Marc Lasalle  ·  05 July 2023

Israel bombs Jenin while its West Bank settlers run amok

Israel launches deadly raid into the occupied territories

Dave Stockton  ·  04 July 2023

Why Russia is an imperialist power

An analysis of the specific features of Russian imperialism

Markus Lehner  ·  03 July 2023

The short ride of the Valkyries

Wagner mutiny shows how Ukraine war is testing Putin regime

Dave Stockton  ·  02 July 2023

A year of war in Ukraine

Resolution adopted by the XIIth Congress of the League for the Fifth International.

Workers Power  ·  01 July 2023

Socialists and the war in Ukraine

The League for the Fifth International corrects its errors on the character of the war in Ukraine

Workers Power  ·  01 July 2023

Pakistan: Heading for a constitutional crisis?

Pakistan is heading towards a constitutional crisis. Minerwa Tahir argues why a constituent assembly is the way forward.

Minerwa Tahir  ·  04 June 2023

The G7 Summit reveals problems for the West

As rival imperialists manoeuvre for position, workers urgently needs a Fifth International

Dave Stockton  ·  03 June 2023

Turkey after Erdogan’s triumph

As Erdogan scrapes victory on a slim margin Dave Stockton asks where next for the left in Turkey.

Dave Stockton  ·  03 June 2023

The dual character of the Ukraine war

The manoeuvrings of the great powers will shape the prospects for peace

Dave Stockton  ·  26 April 2023

Thieves fall out in Khartoum

The outbreka of fighting has shattered illusions in the military-led 'democratic transition'

Andy Yorke  ·  25 April 2023

Good Friday at 25: celebrations can’t mask failures

The GFA promised much but delivered little—except a breathing space for British imperialism

Bernie McAdam  ·  24 April 2023

Windsor Frameworks leaves Stormont in limbo

UK-EU deal sidelines reveals decorative nature of Northern Ireland Assembly

Bernie McAdam  ·  28 March 2023

Israel-Palestine: break the wave of repression!

The far right government has unleashed a wave of settler violence

Alex Rutherford  ·  27 March 2023

Subscribe to the newsletter

Receive our class struggle bulletin every week