We republish below the statement of the Liaison Committee for the Fourth International on Julian Assange’s case from April 2019, immediately after he was expelled from the Ecuadorian embassy and sent to Belmarsh in preparation for planned extradition to the US Gulag. This is a pretty good summary of the issues and smears that were … Continue reading Free Julian Assange now! →

Defend the Russian Federation! On 22 June, In a blatantly obvious publicity stunt and military provocation, evidently ordered by Boris Johnson himself, the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Defender, with a BBC Camera crew and a Daily Mail reporter on board, ostentatiously sailed through the territorial waters of Crimea, which has been part of Russia for … Continue reading Johnson’s imperialist provocation in the Black Sea →

No Support for Starmer’s Labour This 26 June Peoples Assembly demonstration is important because it is called, in a still simmering pandemic, against the government’s attempts to ram through its Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, under cover of the same pandemic. They calculated that the labour movement and working-class people generally would be so … Continue reading Fight Back with Independent Working Class Politics and a Revolutionary Programme! →

After Israel’s May Defeat The following article was distributed on the People’s Assembly Demonstration in London on June 26th as part of a Communist Fight supplement. The demonstration itself, though worthy enough, did not manage to connect with some of the sizeable and youthful movements that have errupted against racism (Black Lives Matter), environmental degradation … Continue reading For Permanent Revolution to Destroy Zionist Colonialism and Ethnocracy! →

The following is a translation of a leaflet issued by the Emancipation of Labour movement in Brazil (a working-class revolutionary trend which the Brazilian LCFI section, the Frente Comunista dos Trabalhadores, supports and works closely with), before the massive nationwide Day of Demonstrations on 19th June where marchers demanded the impeachment and expulsion from power … Continue reading 19th June – For a United Day of Struggle! For POPULAR ASSEMBLIES across the country! →

By Ian Donovan So I’ve been suspended from using Mark Zuckerburg’s racist and anti-democratic Facebook platform yet again. This time for supposedly ‘bullying’ an Israeli Zionist extremist named Aron White, who comes from London and indeed studied here at the University of London, but then evidently made ‘aliyah’ to Israel in order to participate in … Continue reading Facebook’s Zionist-Racist Cancel Culture In the Service of Child Murder →

Unite General Secretary Election Re-arm the left and the Unions to take on this Criminal Government! The upcoming election for General Secretary of Unite the Union, the biggest trade union in Britain, offers an opportunity for working class people to strike back against the political defeats of our class represented by the sabotage of the … Continue reading A Critical Vote for Howard Beckett! →

Recently the Trotskyist Faction decided to change our name. This became necessary after the formal split of the Gerry Downing grouping/website that still calls itself Socialist Fight from the international tendency that we previously commonly adhered to, the Liaison Committee for the Fourth International (LCFI). We came into existence as a faction to defend the … Continue reading Trotskyist Faction or Consistent Democrats: What’s in a Name? →

In the Batley and Spen by-election, called because the previous Labour MP, Tracy Brabin, vacated the seat after being elected as Mayor of West Yorkshire, there is currently no genuinely supportable left-wing candidate running, though there is still time should someone with the resources to run one, such as the Trade Union and Socialist Coalition … Continue reading Batley and Spen – We Need an Independent Working-Class Candidacy →

The following letter was a creditable and supportable initiative of Class Conscious, a leftist trend based in Australia, which we are pleased to endorse and publicise. To Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO PresidentWe defend the right of the Vermont AFL-CIO to have passed a motion authorising a General Strike if the 2020 election results had been overturned … Continue reading OPEN LETTER TO AFL-CIO PRESIDENT RICHARD TRUMKA →