Statements – Red Flag

Global capitalism at a turning point

Saturday, August 10, 2019

Our perspectives on the current global situation, League for the Fifth International Congress in Berlin, June 2019

Boris Johnson’s war cabinet prepares for hard Brexit

Thursday, July 25, 2019

On Thursday night, Britain’s new prime minister wielded the knife and unveiled his new war cabinet – elevating the extreme fringe of the Tory parliamentary party to the heart of government.

Reject Momentum’s democracy proposals – demand a sovereign conference

Tuesday, June 11, 2019

The low horizons of Momentum’s democracy review forces us to ask the question – what is Momentum for?

Alaa Salah leads a crowd of protesters in Sudan with chants of "Thawra!" - Revolution!

Sudan: Counter-revolution strikes back, supported by the Egyptian and Saudi dictatorships

Tuesday, June 4, 2019

An indefinite general strike and international solidarity can beat the dictatorship

IWD 2019: We need a working class women’s movement

Friday, March 8, 2019

March 8 will see women worldwide rally to celebrate International Women’s Day. We hope that millions will respond to the call for a global women’s strike, as they did last year in Spain, in Latin

After the Gang of Seven – now for the rest

Monday, February 18, 2019

Without clearing out the anti-socialist wreckers from the PLP, any Corbyn government will be held hostage by its backbenches.

Down with the imperialist coup in Venezuela!

Friday, January 25, 2019

The US-led attempt to overthrow the Maduro regime has entered a potentially decisive stage

Empty gestures as Corbyn and May inch closer to Brexit

Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Jeremy Corbyn’s response to Theresa May’s new plan for Brexit was perceptive enough: “nothing has changed”.

No Brexit: No Compromise!

Saturday, January 19, 2019

Theresa May is trying to blackmail Parliament into voting for her deal. Labour must stand firm

Brazil: Their fight is our fight!

Monday, October 29, 2018

Statement – 29 October 2018 JAIR BOLSONARO’s victory in the presidential election poses a deadly threat to Brazil’s working class and progressive movements. His supporters have already unleashed a wave of terror against Black, indigenous,

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

Tuesday, May 15, 2018

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

Solidarity with the Pashtun Protection Movement

Sunday, April 22, 2018

ON SATURDAY 21 April, a number of democratic and socialist activists were arrested by the Punjabi Police in Lahore, amongst them Ali Wazir, Bilawal Mandokhel, Muzammil and Ismat Shahjahan, all of them leaders of the

Skripal Affair: Time for Labour to come in from the cold war

Sunday, April 8, 2018

ON 4 MARCH 2018, a former Russian spy turned double agent for MI5, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter Yulia, were poisoned using Novichok, a hitherto obscure nerve agent. The British government has named Russia and

Obituary: Comrade Norman Goodwin 1938-2018

Friday, April 6, 2018

NORMAN GOODWIN died recently at his home in Birmingham. Norman was a true working class fighter and socialist. He was a dedicated anti racist and internationalist and a staunch supporter of the Irish national struggle.

Another Israeli massacre in Gaza

Sunday, April 1, 2018

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

Antisemitism row: the double standards of Labour’s right wing

Wednesday, March 28, 2018

THE SUDDEN coordinated onslaught against Jeremy Corbyn over the weekend of 24-25 March was a transparent attempt by an alliance of rightwing forces to damage Labour’s strong lead in the run up to the May

Brazil: From resistance to the struggle for socialism

Monday, March 19, 2018

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

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

Condemn Assad and Putin’s war crimes in Idlib

Sunday, February 4, 2018

THE SYRIAN Observatory for Human Rights reports that Bashar al-Assad’s warplanes, artillery and barrel bombing helicopters have launched a major assault on the last extensive rebel-held region of Idlib, aided by their Russian allies. It

Manchester Arena: the war on terror has turned all civilians into targets

Tuesday, May 23, 2017

At least 22 people, including young children, have been killed and 59 injured in a suicide bombing

2016 – year of reaction: 2017 – a year of resistance

Saturday, January 7, 2017

2016 was a year of momentous events. In Syria, the European Union, South America, the USA, these were not positive ones for the struggles of the working class and progressive forces fighting for democratic rights.

Brexit: a setback for the working class

Thursday, June 30, 2016

By Richard Brenner The narrow majority in the British referendum for leaving the European Union is a severe setback for the progressive, socialist and labour movements in Britain and across Europe. First and foremost, this

A spirit of socialist internationalism is more urgent than ever

Sunday, April 17, 2016

Declaration of the Tenth Congress of the League for the Fifth International Since 2008, global capitalism has entered a new period of historic crisis, characterised by weak recovery, stagnation and renewed recession. As well as