The world is gripped by an economic crisis that threatens billions with even grater misery under the capitalist system. Read more...

Denied access to clean water, forced to share scraps of clothing, with no sanitary facilities and facing starvation on a diet of less than 2 oz. of cereal a day. Read more...

On 28 June, the generals of the Honduran Army, backed by the Supreme Court, launched a coup that removed from office President José Manuel Zelaya Rosales, better known as Mel Zelaya and deported him to Costa Rica. Read more...

On 21 JUNE, on his regular Aló Presidente TV show, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez indicated where he stood on the struggle unfolding in Iran: with the forces murdering and repressing the students an Read more...

Simon Hardy argues that the street demonstrations need a new strategy to win
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This is an article received from a reader of fifthinternational.org who is in Tehran, sent on the 21st June. We publish it here to provide eyewitness accounts of what is going on in Iran Read more...

Iran is gripped by a political crisis, reports Simon Hardy. Claims of rigged elections have spiralled into a mass popular movement on the streets, but is Mousavi the way forward?
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The Japanese Communist Party has seen massive growth in the last year. Chris Brennan examines why Read more...