Tony Gong is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. What Does ChatGPT Mean For Workers? The AI threat to livelihoods is spurring a growing anti-AI mood to resist automation. However, the conflict is not between AI and humans, but between workers and the bosses who use AI to exploit workers harder, deskill their […]
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Let’s turn our anger into a mass movement in our neighbourhoods and workplaces! The racist murder of young Nahel by a police officer in Nanterre (economically deprived suburb of Paris) on 27 June sparked a wave of indignation and revolt against systemic racism and incessant police violence, particularly against young people of North African or […]
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Serge Jordan is a member of International Socialist Alternative. Deadly fighting has raged into its third month between the Rapid Support Forces militia (RSF) and the Sudanese army. These battles have ravaged the country, with the capital Khartoum and the Darfur region in the West bearing the brunt of the violence. Numerous ceasefires have been […]
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The mutiny by Prigozhin and his Wagner mercenaries drew to sudden close yesterday (June 25) evening. This is a preliminary comment on the events. After 24 hours of dramatically rising tensions, Russian TV has announced that negotiations between Belarusian dictator Aleksander Lukashenko and the leader of the Wagner mercenaries Evgeniy Prigozhin had been successful. Prigozhin […]
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Guizhou province’s distress signal opens new front in country’s debt meltdown. China’s economy suffered a disastrous 2022. Xi Jinping, months into his unprecedented third term as absolute ruler, is therefore desperate for an economic rebound to dispel the gloom that grips the Chinese and global capitalists and restore “confidence.” Earlier this year, global capitalism had […]
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Jonas Brännberg is a member of Socialistiskt Alternativ (ISA in Sweden). The gap between what needs to be done and what is being done is widening On March 20, the IPCC, the UN’s climate panel, presented a summary report of the last 8 years of climate research. 50,000 scientific reports form the basis of the […]
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“The list of failures grows longer yet again.” Plain speaking from Canada’s Commissioner of the Environment. Jerry DeMarco outlined some of the government’s failings in reporting on April 26. The government is not measuring if its policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are working. It is not on track to meet its goal to plant […]
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Clarity and purpose in a world of turmoil Socialist Alternative Canada (SA) recently held its 4th National Conference, which was a resounding success. Members from across the country attended as well as international visitors from four other sections of International Socialist Alternative (ISA): Québec, the United States, Mexico, and China/Hong Kong/Taiwan. While the conference was […]
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Shahar Ben Horin and Yasha Marmer are members of Socialist Struggle Movement (ISA in Israel-Palestine). Since the first week of January, Israeli capitalism has been gripped by an escalating historic political crisis, involving an unprecedented mass movement against the “judicial coup,” along with a mobilization of the ruling class against the government. An “illegal” general […]
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This is a statement by ISA’ International Women’s Bureau. Fight the Right Wing Backlash with Socialist Feminism International Working Women’s Day (IWWD) 2023 sees the wave of women leading movements and struggle against oppression and capitalist exploitation continuing to develop, often explosively. The dire consequences of war, mass hunger, climate destruction, political crisis and social […]
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