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Syria strikes risk escalating Middle East conflict

Monday, April 16, 2018 Red Flag Comments Off

By Marcus Halaby The overwhelming priority of the Labour movement today is to prevent Britain from taking any further military action in Syria, or from joining any new Trump-led escalations of conflict with Russia or […]

Brazilian left unites in response to arrest of Lula

Sunday, April 15, 2018 Red Flag Comments Off

By Liga Socialista, Brazil THESE ARE tense days in Brazil. The political instability, which began with the parliamentary coup, heightened in the days leading up to the Federal Supreme Court hearing of Lula’s request for […]

Pakistan: Tens of thousands at Pashtun defence meeting

Saturday, April 14, 2018 Red Flag Comments Off

By Shahzad Arshad, Revolutionary Socialist Movement, Pakistan A NEW mass movement is developing in Pakistan. On April 8, tens of thousands of supporters of the “Pashtun Protection Movement” gathered in Peshawar, the centre of Khyber […]

Another Israeli massacre in Gaza

Sunday, April 1, 2018 Red Flag Comments Off

Israeli armed forces, firing indiscriminately on unarmed Palestinian demonstrators, men, women and children, have killed at least 16 and injured well over one hundred. As is usual in such cases, the US and British representatives […]

Marielle lives on amongst us!

Monday, March 26, 2018 Red Flag Comments Off

Liga Socialista, Brazil ON THE evening of March 14, Marielle Franco (38), a city councillor from the Maré favela in Rio de Janeiro, was shot dead in her car in the street. Her driver died […]

French railway workers prepare for decisive struggle

Thursday, March 22, 2018 Red Flag Comments Off

By Marc Lasalle PARIS – Strikes and demonstrations have taken place across France in a day of action called by a united front of most public sector unions. The action has been called in response to […]

Sri Lanka in the aftermath of the Emergency

Thursday, March 22, 2018 Red Flag Comments Off

THE State of Emergency declared by the government of Ranil Wickremasinghe on March 6, initially for 7 days, was finally lifted on March 18. The attacks by Buddhist gangs on Muslim communities, which were the […]

Brazil: From resistance to the struggle for socialism

Monday, March 19, 2018 Red Flag Comments Off

Statement of the Liga Socialista to the Brazil Social Forum SINCE the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff of the Workers’ Party (PT) we are essentially in a coup situation. Today it is also clear that […]

Statement on the State of Emergency in Sri Lanka

Monday, March 12, 2018 Red Flag Comments Off

Executive Committee of the Socialist Party of Sri Lanka The declaration of a State of Emergency by the government of Ranil Wickremasinghe and Maithripala Sirisena is further evidence, if more were required, that theirs is […]

USA: Our bodies – our choice

Thursday, March 8, 2018 Red Flag Comments Off

By Mekdela Ejigu THE limited legal abortion and women’s reproductive rights available in the United States exist in a permanent state of siege enforced by the Republican party and religious conservatives across the country. During […]