Statement: Internationalist solidarity with Women’s Democratic Front
THE League for the Fifth International categorically condemns the seven-hour-long illegal...
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Category: Asia-Pacific
Australia burns: who will douse the flames?
AS WILDFIRES rage across swathes of Australia tens of thousands of people have taken to the...
Read More Statement: Solidarity with the Indian student movement!
ON SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15, the Delhi police brutally attacked students from the Jamia Millia Islamia...
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Tens of thousands join Jammu Kashmir Liberation front march
Since October 3, more than 30,000 people have joined the Azadi (Freedom) March in Kashmir. The...
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Hong Kong: An important concession, what comes next?
On September 4, Hong Kong’s Chief Executive, Carrie Lam, finally agreed to withdraw the hated Extradition Bill altogether, and not just leave it on the shelf. If the Bill had become law it would have allowed extradition of anybody on Hong Kong territory for trial on the mainland. Although presented as simply a measure to prevent criminals taking refuge in Hong Kong, it could also have been used against journalists and political dissidents and , indeed, almost anyone doing business on the mainland, where corruption is rife.
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Hong Kong: Police ban demo, troops move to the border
Progress for the movement now depends not on the force of argument, but on the argument of force. Only a real general strike, a strike that stops all production, all transport, all publications, all broadcasting, can do that. Such a strike cannot be mobilised out of thin air, it has to be built for within the workplaces and housing estates themselves. That is the task that the Left and the thousands of student activists should set themselves.
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Pakistan: Jiand Baloch is free – the Baloch people are not!
The Baloch Students’ Organisation has announced the release of student leader Jiand Baloch. We thank all those individuals, activists and organisations who raised their voice in solidarity with Jiand Baloch and the BSO. It was your effort which saved a comrade’s life. Thus, instead of destroying the BSO, state repression has only managed to popularise it.
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Solidarity with the struggle of the people of Jammu and Kashmir!
The state of Jammu and Kashmir has been stripped of its status of limited autonomy within India. dividing the state into two union territories: firstly Jammu and Kashmir, and secondly Ladakh. The Modi government wants to promote war hysteria so that on the one hand, all resistance and dissent can be crushed in the name of ‘enmity to India’. On the other hand, such policies are aimed at providing Indian capital opportunities to loot and plunder Kashmir.
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Hong Kong: learning the right lessons
The trashing of the Legislative Council, Legco, building in Hong Kong on July 1 certainly drew the world’s attention to the ongoing opposition to the proposed Extradition Law that would allow people detained in Hong Kong to be tried in mainland Chinese courts.
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Hindutva: The new face of the Indian capitalist class
The Hindutva chauvinist Bharatiya Janata Party, BJP, under the leadership of Narendra Modi, has won the elections to India’s lower house, Lok Sabha.
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Hong Kong: “Occupy 2.0” forces government retreat, for now
On Sunday, 1 million people marched in protest against a proposed new law which will allow Beijing to extradite anyone from the territory of Hong Kong.
Read MoreTiananmen Square 30 years on
How the crushing of the democracy movement paved the way for the restoration of capitalism
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