Antifaschistische Aktion Berlin - Anti-fascist Action Berlin. Very much a part of the "left-wing scene" where style wins over substance every time. The fashion student's favourite revolutionary organisation, post-this, post-that, post-the other, the AAB is best known for organising apolitical demonstrations with sound-systems to block out political content, such as the "Revolutionary 1st May" in Berlin, which is little more than an excuse for a riot. The AAB sell a wide range of merchandise, including hooded tops, masks, and "riot" or "antifa" t-shirts, available in "boy" or "girlie" cuts. The AAB (mis)uses the logo of the original Anti-Fascist Action set up by the German Communist Party in the early 1930s. This time however, class plays no role in the AAB.
The AAB has for years tried to concrete its central role in German "anti-fascism" via its grouping AA-BO ("federal organisation"). This has virtually collapsed due topolitical differences.

"Adalah (Justice in Arabic) is the first non-profit, non-sectarian Palestinian-run legal center in Israel. Established in November 1996, Adalah serves the Palestinian community nationwide, over one million people or 20% of the population.

... "The main goal of Adalah's work is to achieve equal rights and minority rights protections for Palestinian citizens of Israel. "

"The Afghan Women's Mission works closely with RAWA to support long-term health, educational, and awareness raising initiatives for Afghan women and girls. "

AK ("analysis and criticism - newspaper for left-wing debate and practice") is a monthly publication dealing with theory from a (on the whole) Marxist background. AK originally stood for "Arbeiterkampf" ("Workers' Fight") and was the publication of the Maoist group Kommunistische Bund (Communist Alliance). The paper remains today as an end in itself and is not related to any political organisation.

"The Andean Information Network monitors US policies and their consequences in the Andean region with special emphasis on Bolivia, and disseminates this information to concerned individuals and groups around the world."

The (Trotskyist) AGM publishes the journal (in book form) "Marxismus". Each issue is usually focused on one theme, e.g. China, Trotskyism in France, The Balkans and the Workers' Movement, etc..
Leaflets and pamphlets on everyday issues are also published and are available on the website. A few texts are available in English.

Argentinian Indymedia site, in Spanish.

The section of the Argentinian Indymedia site in English, with some articles in other languages too.

Bulletin produced by members of the Ligue Communiste Revolutionnaire; main axis being regroupment of the left, LCR, LO, plus left of the Socialist Party, French Communist Party and Greens to confront Chirac-Raffarin

Homepage of the Australian Electoral Commission.

Labour and other news from Korea in English. This is how it came about...
'7 Korean progressive groups decided to create an english portal website in order to communicate with international activists, as well as an alternative media press aimed at a global audience...     
'The name of this progressive media press is BASE21--Building A Solidarity Electronically, 21st Century. BASE21 is a non-profit, independent grassroots information network for the Korean progressive movement. In addition to articles, bulletin boards, and links, we hope to soon establish a rapid response system for urgent struggles occurring all over the world--struggles against neo-liberalism, capitalism, anti-ASEM / Anti G8 Meeting / Anti - MD, etc.'

"Between the Lines aims to continue the political perspective of a categorical rejection of the Oslo process, and the Apartheid reality which has been established in its wake in the '67 Occupied Territories and strengthened within Israel ... This perspective stems from a comprehensive stance which opposes the exclusive Jewish-Zionist nature of the state of Israel and the authoritarian regime which has emerged in the areas beneath the control of the Palestinian Authority ... Between the Lines [is] a project of radical and progressive Palestinians and Israelis ...

Blog by Danish Marxist Bjarke Friborg (contains material in English as well as Danish).

BossWatch is the first concerted attempt by Australian unions to map our corporate landscape and track the linkages between our major employers. It is a resource open to all unions sponsored by the Labor Council of NSW.

"Brazil Network is the alternative website for Brazil. It provides educational information on social, environmental and cultural issues not normally covered by the mainstream media. " A website of Brazil's social movements, but appears to be uncritical of the Workers' Party Government.

"The Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq (CASI) is a registered society at the University of Cambridge. It was founded in 1997 by students concerned about the humanitarian crisis created in Iraq by the economic sanctions imposed after Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait. CASI's exclusive concern is humanitarian: it campaigns only for the lifting of the non-military sanctions. CASI neither supports nor seeks to topple the Iraqi regime; it does not take a position on the ongoing US/UK bombing of Iraq or on human rights abuses committed by the Iraqi government."

Hmm. Some useful information, though.

"China Labor Watch (CLW) is devoted to improving Chinese workers' working and living conditions, defending their rights, upholding international labor and human rights standards, and preparing for the future of independent labor union organizations that are truly representational of the workers they represent."

From the site: "The contradictions in China's economy are sharpening as the lethal combination of the legacy from the command economy and market-reforms leaves millions of workers destitute and angry.
"Yet freedom of association, the most fundamental right of the working class, is still denied.
"China Labour Bulletin, set up in 1994, seeks to promote independent trade unionism and provide information on the activities of the official All-China Federation of Trade Unions, as well as attempts by workers to organise outside it."

Website of the Israeli soldiers refusing to serve in the occupied territories.

Thai-based organisation which "demand[s] employment, equal labour standards and participation in decision making for all women workers."

"Breaking news and views for the progressive community". US website features links to myriad organisations and well known figures

If you want to dig the dirt on rip-off corporations and what they are up to in India, this is the site to start at.

Congress of South African Trade Unions

Website of the Debat militant group in the Ligue Communiste Revolutionnaire. Origins in Voix des Travailleurs, set up by expelled members of Lutte Ouvriere.

The DGB is the German Confederation of Trade Unions (the German TUC). It is made up of 8 trade unions, the two largest are Verdi (United Service Industries Union) - the biggest free trade union in the world, founded after a merger of 5 unions, 4 of which used to be members of the DGB; and the IG Metall (engineering and electrical workers' industrial union), which until the founding of Verdi was the biggest free trade union in the world. Parts of the DGB's website can be also read in English, French and Spanish.

The DKP was funded for years directly from East Berlin and was therefore politically as well as financially dependent on the former GDR. Since then the party has lost most of its members and its daily paper UZ has had to become a weekly (since the day the money stopped coming in 1989 in fact).
Stalinist, "pacifist", "for peace and socialism", aging rapidly. The largest "socialist" group left of the PDS in Germany.

Spanish group linked to Socialist Appeal (Britain).

EJJP is a network of 18 Jewish Peace groups in 10 European countries.

FelS - "for a left wing current" describe themselves as being part of the "radical undogmatic left". "Post-Marxist" with criticism of the "autonomist" groups dominant on the German left. Based in Berlin, publishes the widely-read but irregular theoretical journal "Arranca!".

Website of the campaign in support of Mordechai Vanunu, who was kidnapped and imprisoned by the Israeli government for revealing the truth about its nuclear weapons programme.

Website of the Freedom for Abdullah Ocalan / Peace in Kurdistan campaign

Gruppe Arbeitermacht ("Workers' Power") is the affiliate in Germany of the "League for a Revolutionary Communist International". Publishes the irregular journal "Arbeitermacht".

English language pages of the Greek Social Forum, a broad coalition building for the European Social Forum but building for activities in Greece mainly, naturally!

The group "Arbeiterpolitik" can be best described as being "right-communist", having its roots in the "Brandlerite" KPO, the "Communist Party - Opposition" in Germany in 1928-9, founded by Heinrich Brandler and August Thalheimer.

GIS is a group which has come out of the IS-SWP tradition, but is now rethinking its politics somewhat. Its irregular publication, "Sozialismus oder Barbarei" ("Socialism or barbarism") can be read on the website, with some issues also available in Turkish ("Ya Sosyalizm ya Barbarlik").

Gush Shalom describes itself as "the hard core of the Israeli peace movement". This link is to the English-language version of the site, which can also be read in Hebrew and Arabic.

Inprecor is the monthy press-bulletin of the United Secretariat of the Fourth International. There is also an English and a German-language version (International Viewpoint and Inprekorr, respectively)

Today's "Inprekorr" is the "information bulletin of the (United Secretariat of the) Fourth International". "Inprekorr" stands for "International Press-Correspondence". The German edition is available on the net to download in PDF as well as an archive in HTML. As very few of the articles are actually written in German, reflecting the weakness of the USec's sections in German-speaking areas, the German edition is almost exclusively made up of translations from other languages, notably French, that appear in the German edition sometimes months after they were first written. Those who can read French are advised to read "Inprécor", available from the LCR, and on the net (see France links), or the English-language "International Viewpoint". The future of the German edition of "Inprekorr" is in doubt.

The IS is a group adhering to the International Socialist Tendency (IST, in England and Wales, the SWP). The IS comrades were expelled from the previous section, the SAG, when the SWP leadership told them to dissolve themselves into German Social Democracy, and form Linksruck (see Tony Cliff's autobiography). The IS's monthly journal, Klassenkampf ("Class struggle") can be read on the website. The IS present themself as being the official section of the IST, but this is not the case.

The ISL is a sympathising section of the United Secretariat of the Fourth International. Publishes the monthly newspaper "Sozialistische Zeitung" while trying to distance itself from the publication.

Campaigners in Scotland building support and solidarity with trade unions in Iraq.

Site containing lots of information from opponents of Saddam's regime, detailing human rights abuses in Iraq,a nd also dedicated to defending Iraqi refugees abroad.

New, rough, British-based website promoting solidarity with the Iraqi workers' movement.

International Socialist Movement - "a Marxist platform of the SSP". Split from the Militant/Socialist Party, leaving the CWI in January 2001. Dominant faction in the Scottish Socialist Party.

The website of Juan Cole, an American academic who has written all the best reports on Shi'a movements in Iraq that I have read ... His website has daily updates and is very, very good.

A radical-democratic activist youth group. The "Jungdemokraten" were the youth section until 1982 of the FDP (Liberal) party, when it split from the FDP over the party's decision to bring down the SPD-Liberal coalition and swap allegiance to Kohl's Christian Democrats. The "Marxistische Jugendvereinigung Junge Linke" - Marxist Youth Organisation Young Left - emerged as part of the revolution in Stalinist East Germany in 1989, as a nationally-organised Marxist youth group, independent from the state and its youth front, the "Free German Youth" (FDJ). In 1992, the West German Jungdemokraten and the East German MJV-Junge Linke merged, hence the organisation's name "JD-JL". It is the most important political youth organisation not connected to a party in parliament. Despite this, JD-JL is a useful springboard for wannabe parliamentarians to get a post in the PDS, for example. Does a lot of anti-militarism and pro-drugs work, and work around education and the school system (organises burnings of school reports, for example).

Junge Linke, a youth group, "against capital and the nation". Describe themselves in a long self-description as "Marxists", but exactly why and how this is meant is hard to see.

The "junge Welt" ("young world") is a daily newspaper published in Berlin. It could be best described as being "orthodox Communist" i.e. Stalinist, being particuarly close to the "Communist Platform" of the PDS, and the DKP (Communist Party) youth section, the SDAJ. Other revolutionaries and left-wing reformists do get space to air their views and opinions, it is highly critical of the PDS leadership. Formerly the organ of the East German state organisation "Free German Youth", the Junge Welt was the most read, and most trusted (and most critical) newspaper in the Stalinist GDR. Today the junge Welt is the daily paper with the youngest readership, which is strange, as one only ever sees pensioners reading it. Has been criticised as being anti-semitic and its politics can be summed up pretty well in the phrase "my enemies' enemy is my friend". Rumours that the paper was written and printed in Belgrade during the NATO attacks on Serbia and Kosova have not yet been proven.

English language website of the independent Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, KCTU. Lots of Korean labour news

400,000 teachers, firmly united in accordance with conscience and truth, would make this wicked regime and these selfish profiteers' attempts futile. We act not out of fear of their threats or lies, but for our students' smiling faces and shining eyes.

"Working to protect and promote the human rights of all persons living throughout the Kurdish regions of Iran, Iraq,
Syria, Turkey and the former Soviet Union. "

The council of trade unions for the Australian state of New South Wales.

"Labor News Production (LNP), established in 1989, has made more than 50 feature length educational videos on the independent and progressive labor movements in Korea."

Website of the Labor Party of America

Website of the Labour Party of Pakistan

The title says it all.

Socialist organisation in Mauritius

Bulletin edited by far-left trade union activists who nonetheless belong to different political parties and none. Very good political coverage of the "lutte sociale" reproducing documents from all arenas of the class struggle

About censorship and freedom of expression in Australia (and elsewhere).

Website of the Ligue Communiste Revolutionnaire (France)

Linksruck ("Left Turn") is the official German section of the International Socialist Tendency (in England and Wales, the SWP).
A few articles from the current fortnightly paper, also called Linksruck, can be read on the website. For the rest, look at http://www.socialistworker.co.uk

Website of Lutte Ouvriere (France)

This site contains Marxist writings by Australians working primarily in the International Socialist tradition.

"Medusa is the journal of the Centre for Women and Socialism, which was first published in 1998. The Centre was established by several left activists who had fled the oppression and persecution of political Islam and the Islamic Republic in Iran and were engaged in women's issues and defending women's rights. "

Website of Buenos Aires tube workers. In Spanish only.

The MLPD is a fairly large Maoist organisation, and the largest Maoist group in Germany. Produces the weekly populist paper "Rote Fahne" (Red Flag...what would Luxemburg and Liebknecht have had to say about that???) The paper can be read on the website, the advantage of the printed edition is that you can then play (possibly for money) "how many photos of party guru Stefan Engel (and/or his wife, Monika Gärtner-Engel) are in the paper this week?". Members are regularly expelled for "non-proletarian thinking", i.e. disagreeing with the leadership. This is reported in the RF. The MLPD's youth group is called "Rebell", the children's section (!) are the "Rotfüchse" ("Red foxes"), Tries to emulate the German CP in the late 1920s. For the MLPD, the Soviet Union etc. were all "capitalist", from the moment Kruschchev made his secret speech criticising Stalin in Moscow in 1956. Before this, these states were "genuinely socialist" and the USSR or the GDR pre 1956 are the model for the states and systems the MLPD wishes to erect after a proletarian revolution.

Journal of "Third Camp" socialist politics.

"The New Socialist Group is an organization of activists working to renew socialism from below as part of today's struggles. "

Journal of debate and translations seeking to encourage dialogue among anarchist and Trotskyist activists.

Socialist, anti-nationalist, blog from Edinburgh

Brazilian Marxist magazine, published by the Centre for Socialist Studies. In Portugese.

Up-to-date reporting of trade union struggle in Pakistan.

The PDS "emerged" out of the East German Stalinist ruling party SED in 1989, the party was originally called "SED-PDS", and has been moving to the right ever since. The PDS is basically a left-wing social democratic party. German political commentators often wonder how long the "artificial split in the workers' movement", as they see it, caused by the German revolution in 1918-19 and the founding of the German Communist Party, can be overcome, with the merger of the SPD and the PDS. The PDS's daily paper is "Neues Deutschland", with a large format and quite big print for the ever aging members. The PDS is literally dying away and its attempts to appeal to radical youth are undermined severely by the party's desire (at all levels) to be "realistic" and to be allowed to play the political game on the same terms as the other bourgeois parties.

The large, 'official' Israeli peace moevemnt, organisers of important protests against the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. This link is to the English-language version of the website, which can also be viewed in Hebrew.

The council of trade unions for the Australian state of Queensland.

Website for UK-based supporters of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan

Homepage of the RSB / IV. Internationale, which is a sympathising group of the United Secretariat of the Fourth International. The RSB's journal "Avanti" can be downloaded and read in HTML or PDF format, as can various leaflets and workplace bulletins.

"RAWA is a political/social organization of Afghan women struggling for peace, freedom, democracy and women's rights in fundamentalism-blighted Afghanistan."

Party of Communist Refoundation

The SAV is the German section of the Committee for a Workers' International (in England and Wales: Socialist Party). Publishes the monthly paper "Solidarität - Sozialistische Zeitung" (formerly "Voran").