Delegates from the sections of the League for the Fifth international gathered in Turkey in June to discuss the international work of our organisation and adopt the documents and resolutions that will guide our work over the coming years.
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Pakistani UHS workers’ strike needs support
On a small roundabout in the middle of Lahore, a group of workers sits on a rug. They and others have been there for over two months, keeping a constant protest outside the Punjabi government building. They are the sacked University Health Sciences workers whose sacking has created such outrage across the city. Read More
Statement on the Murderous Israeli Attack on the Freedom Flotilla
Israel’s murderous assault on the aid convoy, the Freedom Flotilla, on 31 May must be condemned by the world’s working-class movement. A statement from the International Secretariat of the League for the Fifth International Read More
The Kerry-Lieberman American Power Farce
Senators John Kerry (D, MA) and Joe Lieberman (I, CT) recently presented their bipartisan bill to the Senate addressing the future advancement of implementing clean, sustainable U.S. energy production standards. Jamie Traska examines the contents of the bill and discovers it does less to promote environmental sustainability than it does the profitability of the energy corporations and Wall St. speculators. Read More
“Spill, Baby, Spill!” Gulf Disaster Worst in Decades
Coming off one of the greatest man made environmental catastrophes of all time, Jeff Albertson reflects on the immediate aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil-rig explosion, commenting on who shoulders the responsibility for it, and what must be done now and in the future to prevent similar ecologically destructive scenarios from occurring. Read More
Don’t Blame the Victim for the Crime! Mobilize to Smash Racist SB 1070 in Arizona
Jamie Traska examines the language and character of the Bill and goes on to argue that it reflects a deep-seated need on the part of the bosses to keep the working-class divided, to weaken its overall resistance to having to pay the costs of the capitalist crisis and to maintain their parasitic conditions of existence. Read More
Students across New Jersey Walk Out in the Face of Worsening Budget Cuts
Indignation amongst the thousands of teachers and students across the State is growing as governor Chris Christie's austerity plans begin to come to fruition. Phil Dickinson looks at the recent walkouts and argues that decisive steps are needed to defeat the governor's planned offensive on the working-class and youth. Read More
Workers at Temple University Hospital Strike Back Against Austerity Plans, Union Busting
The strikers remain committed. Management refuses to yield any ground. A decisive battle between the two is all but inevitable, as unionists, students, and community supporters from across the city of Philadelphia rally to the side of the workers against the bosses. Crucial measures need to be taken on the part of the union rank and file and leadership in the coming days and potentially weeks if their victory over management is to be assured, writes Jeff Albertson. Read More
Obama’s student-loan “reform” falls far short of eliminating debt burdens
Jamie Traska looks at Obama's supposed student-loan reform program, arguing that it barely begins to scratch the surface of addressing the enormous debts plaguing the lives of current and former students, offering instead a radical alternative to eliminating student debt altogether. Read More
Fight back against NJ Governor Chris Christie’s plans to gut public education, smash teachers’ union
The promised attacks against public education and the powerful teachers' union - the NJEA - by Republican governor Chris Christie have begun in earnest. Phil Dickinson reports on these developments and argues that mass, militant action on the part of union will be necessary to halt Christie's plans. Read More
This program of action was drawn up by Workers Power (US) to act as a unifying guide to all workers and, with them, their organizations in the United States struggling to resist attempts by the bosses to make them pay the costs of a crisis they did nothing to commit. The battle cry of the working class can only be at this point in time, "from resistance to revolution!"
The current program of the League for the Fifth International, adopted at the sixth congress and published in 2003. This program is essential reading for revolutionaries across the world in the fight for socialism
Review: US Labor in Trouble and Transition: The Failure of Reform from Above, the Promise of Revival from Below by Kim Moody, Verso 2007. Reviewed by Andy Yorke.
Bryan D Palmer, a Canadian based professor and writer on the history of the North American labour movement, has published the first volume of his James Cannon biography, James P Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left (1890-1974) Illinois, 2007. Simon Hardy reviews its lessons for today. 