By Dave Stockton THE 23–24 February is the first anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s Ukraine War. On that night, 190,000 Russian armed forces launched a massive attack on the country. Their aim was to occupy its capital, overthrow its government and overawe its people. Putin called it a ‘special military operation’. In fact, it was a […]

By Tim Nailsea IN THE wake of the massive repression which has, for the time being at least, suppressed the mass protest movement, following the murder of Mahsa Amini by Iran’s ‘morality police’. The UK and the European Union are taking measures to designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) a ‘terrorist organisation’. The IRGC […]

By Alex Rutherford and Marcel Rajecky ON 30 DECEMBER, the Israeli parliament voted into office a government headed by Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu. This time, Netanyahu has included in his coalition representatives of a number of extreme religious and far right parties, who form the Religious Zionism (RZ) bloc. A statement by Netanyahu on the […]

By Lars Keller WITH BRUTE force, the state and RWE have created facts on the ground, storming, clearing and demolishing Lützerath within a week. Hundreds of activists were evicted from tree houses and squats. 35,000 climate activists came out over the weekend and shouted “Lützi stays!” Many wrestled with the police in the mud and […]

By Marc Lassalle THE NUMBERS speak for themselves. More than two million workers marched on 19 January against President Emmanuel Macron’s latest attempt to reform the pension system. In a sign of the widespread opposition amongst workers, a rare united front saw all the main trade union federations on strike bringing transport, energy and schools […]

The ideology of these conspirators centres on the superiority of the German race to others.

Growing divisions in the party have forced a change of tack.

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On 2 December, Biden signed legislation that blocked railroad workers from launching a nationwide strike for better jobs and conditions.

A credible refoundation of the NPA necessarily must start with a thorough balance sheet of the class struggle in France.

The cost of living crisis is prompting the biggest strikes in years. But trade union leaders are holding back a general strike.

Who is Xi scared of?

By Dave Stockton PROTESTS FOLLOWING the murder of 22 year-old Jina Mahsa Amini have developed into the most serious challenge to the Iranian dicatorship in four decades. Women have taken the lead in daily demonstrations and have been joined by students in the country’s universities and schools, and, crucially, workers taking mass political strike action. […]

Haitians don't want or need another armed intervention

The Red Wave failed to materialise, boosting Donald Trump's candidacy for 2024

IN JULY 2012, Kurdish armed forces took political control in the regions of Kobanê, Afrin and al-Hasakah in northern Syria. The transfer of power from the Syrian regime to the Kurdish organisations began during the Syrian Revolution of 2011. By July 2012, the regime had lost control of Homs, its third-largest city. On July 18, […]

Conscription order has prompted hundreds of thousands to flee the country

Far right control of senate and parliament will hobble Lula's presidency if he wins

The flooding in Pakistan is not simply a 'natural' disaster.

By Azim Parker As expected, Giorgia Meloni and her ultra-reactionary Fratelli d’Italia party emerged victorious in the September 25 election. She will therefore be at the head of the next government. The Fratelli d’Italia, whose members still refer positively to Mussolini’s fascism, received 26% of the vote (up 21.6% on 2018). The entire right-wing bloc, […]

Women are defying repression and murder to demand the fall of the Iranian dictatorship