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L5I statement on the Israeli air strikes on Syria

The League for the Fifth International unreservedly condemns Israel’s May 3rd and 5th air strikes on a military complex near Damascus in which 42 Syrian soldiers were killed,…

Pakistani elections: vote Awami Workers’ Party – and fight to make it a revolutionary workers’ party

On May 11, there will be a general election in Pakistan. The last government of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has been responsible for the continuation of the…

The Palestinian struggle in Syria

A member of the League for the Fifth International’s German section interviewed Thaer, a resident of Yarmouk, Syria’s largest Palestinian refugee camp, in Damascus. He escaped the camp,…

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Strike wave shakes up fast-food chains

Since April, workers campaigning for better wages and the right to unionize have shut down…

The future is ours – if we want it

Across the world, young people are in the forefront of mass movements for democracy, human…

May Day 2013: start the fight for revolutionary regroupment!

Over the past several years, we’ve both witnessed and experienced brutal attacks on our part…

Statement on the tragedy at the Boston Marathon

Monday’s bombing at the Boston Marathon has killed at least three people and injured well…

Stop US military provocations and the economic blockade against North Korea

The Western media is pumping out one simple message about the crisis on the Korean…

Revolutionary Thinking

1934: Class war in Minneapolis

Almost 80 years ago, the city of Minneapolis was a battlefield in the class war between workers and bosses. Three strikes in 1934 shook the city and American…

Communist principles of youth organization

For Lenin and Trotsky, it was essential that revolutionary youth organizations, despite their political allegiance to revolutionary communist parties and an International, should be free from all tutelage…

Breaking the chains of Stalinism: women of the Eastern Bloc

For decades, women in the USSR and Eastern Europe were told that they were equal and free, that the “woman question” had been solved. These lies, together with…

Sources and Components of Marxism

Scientific Socialism

What is the difference between socialism and communism? How can we get from a capitalist society with all its problems, divisions,…

Political Economy

What is political economy? Students of economics are usually taught their subject in isolation from politics and history, but for Marxists…

Materialist Philosophy

Marxist philosophy can sound complicated, but it is not at all. This article explains some of the basics. The Marxist method…