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What are the prospects for AMLO’s “Mexican revolution”?

Friday, July 6, 2018 Red Flag Comments Off

By Dave Stockton THE LANDSLIDE victory on 1 July of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, known as AMLO for short, with over 24 million votes and 53 percent of the vote, was a humiliation for the […]

Turkey: Elections extend Erdogan’s power

Wednesday, June 27, 2018 Red Flag Comments Off

By Svenja Spunck THE HEADLINE results of Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary elections are that Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won the presidential election and the alliance of his “Party for Justice and Development”, AKP, and the […]

Pakistan: Taliban attack Pashtun movement

Tuesday, June 19, 2018 Red Flag Comments Off

By Hassan Raza, Revolutionary Socialist Movement Pakistan The Pashtun Protection Movement, PTM, is already changing the political landscape in Pakistan. It has rallied hundreds of thousands against military and police repression, the “disappearance” of 30,000 […]

Brazil: The truck drivers’ uprising

Wednesday, June 13, 2018 Red Flag Comments Off

By Pericles da Lima, Liga Socialista IN THE last days of May almost nothing moved in Brazil. Crucial economic links such as motorway junctions, ports, airports and refineries were paralysed by some 500 blockades, each […]

Prague 1968: Revolution and counter-revolution

Tuesday, June 12, 2018 Red Flag Comments Off

By Dave Stockton THE YEAR 1968 was one of history’s “mad years” like 1848, 1917-18, 1989 and, most recently, 2011. It was a time when the eruption of revolts in one country quickly stimulated upheavals […]

Assad to repossess Syria’s graveyards

Thursday, June 7, 2018 Red Flag Comments Off

By Katie Pelikanou THE SYRIAN regime is undertaking a thinly-veiled legal manoeuvre to punish the millions of refugees who have fled the civil war, and entrench the postwar sectarian redivision of Syria by repossessing their […]

Italy: For a united front against racism

Monday, June 4, 2018 Red Flag Comments Off

By Dave Stockton AFTER NEARLY three months of negotiations, a coalition government has been formed in Italy between the Five Star Movement (M5S) and the League (formerly Lega Nord). Coverage of the government’s difficult birth […]

Spain: Sánchez ousts Rajoy but what next?

Saturday, June 2, 2018 Red Flag Comments Off

By Dave Stockton PEDRO SANCHEZ, leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE), is now in the Moncloa Palace as prime minister of Spain. Every progressive person in the Spanish state will be glad to […]

Israel celebrates Trump’s ‘present’ with fresh slaughter in Gaza

Tuesday, May 15, 2018 Red Flag Comments Off

Red Flag Statement ISRAEL HAS celebrated the opening of Donald Trump’s Embassy in Jerusalem with a bloodbath, by massacring at least 60 Palestinian demonstrators, including eight children, and wounding more than 2,270. This brings the […]

Assad’s gas habit and the West’s immoral “red lines”

Monday, May 14, 2018 Red Flag Comments Off

By Marcus Halaby “Why would Bashar al-Assad have gassed his own people when he was already winning the war?” This question is frequently asked by many in the West of a generally anti-war disposition, who […]