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Russia: Protests against pension reform show potential for resistance

Wednesday, September 5, 2018 Red Flag Comments Off

By Svenja Spunck IN June, the Russian government announced a far-reaching pension “reform”. The main change is to raise the retirement age for women from 55 to 63 and for men from 60 to 65. […]

Germany: far-right riots in Chemnitz show need for new approach

Tuesday, August 28, 2018 Red Flag Comments Off

By Svenja Spunck AROUND 5000 right-wingers rampaged through Chemnitz on Monday, August 27. The march was organised by Nazis and extreme nationalist groups and, coming just a day after a riot by a mob of […]

Germany: Right-wing riots in Chemnitz – how can they be stopped?

Tuesday, August 28, 2018 Red Flag Comments Off

By Svenja Spunck ABOUT 5000 right-wingers rampaged through Chemnitz on Monday, August 27. The march was organised by Nazis and extreme nationalist groups and, coming just a day after a riot by a mob of […]

USA: No to prison slavery

Tuesday, August 21, 2018 Red Flag Comments Off

By Marcus Otono NASHVILLE, TN – In April of this year, inmates at the Lee Correctional Center in South Carolina took strike action in protest at the brutal conditions in the prison. As if to […]

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 […]

Trump claims “victory” at Nato summit

Tuesday, June 26, 2018 Red Flag Comments Off

By Dave Stockton Donald Trump claimed victory over his European allies at the Nato heads of government conference in Brussels on July 11-12. Though he avoided reducing it to the total shambles of the June […]

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 […]