On 10 May, 2011, Comrade Friederike Schlesak, Friedl, died at the age of 99. For many years she was more to us than just a fellow fighter. She was at the same time the “mother" and Honorary President of the revolutionary organisation that we joined at the end of the 1980s, “ArbeiterInnenstandpunkt”, the Austrian section of the League for a Revolutionary Communist International. Read more...
At the last International Executive Committee (IEC) of the League, five comrades of the Austrian section, calling themselves the Bolshevik Opposition, including long standing members Michael Pröbsting and Nina Gunic, were expelled from the organisation for conducting a deliberately destructive and unprincipled factional campaign in the Austrian section against its new, young leadership, and also planning to take this campaign into Revolution in Austria. Read more...
People have taken to the streets in demonstration in Vienna, Austria, against the deportation of a 14 year old student Read more...
Report from the spontaneous militant demonstration in Vienna on 1st June Read more...
The editorial of the first issue of Revolutionärin, the magazine of the Revolutionary Women's Collective in Austria. Read more...
Thousands of students have occupied the University of Vienna. This video explains what the occupation is about and why the student are fighting
UPDATE: Read a full interview with league member Roman Birke here Read more...
On Friday, 2nd January, more than 8,000 people participated in the second demonstration in Vienna against Israel’s terrorist war. This demonstration was called by many Muslim associations. Read more...
The first demonstration in Vienna against Israel’s terrorist war was a complete success with 2.000 participants. The demonstration was called by the Antiimperialist Camp, the Arab-Palestine Club and the League of Socialist Revolution (LSR) and supported by well-known Austrian Social Forum activists like Leo Gabriel and Hermann Dworczak. Read more...
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