Another Powerful Stride Forward More than 1,400 ISA members and supporters from 36 countries on all continents attended our third “Virtual Marxist University’ between 19 and 25 July. This included comrades from “countries which are crucial to the global class struggle and who had not been represented in previous VMUs, including Chile and Egypt. “Zoom […]
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Defend the Gains of the Cuban Revolution! The shortage of medicines, as well as the growing economic crisis which has been aggravated by the pandemic, has generated a growing discontent among Cuban working people, who took to the streets on July 11. The ruling Communist Party (CP) bureaucracy described the demonstrations as counter-revolutionary and pro-imperialist. […]
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Workers across the world have been inspired by the determined resistance in Myanmar to the military takeover and widespread repression that has followed. The working class has played a central role. International Socialist Alternative discussed the situation with Khaing Zar, a leader of the textile workers union and national treasurer of the Confederation of Trade […]
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Fighting for international solidarity and a socialist solution The uprising of Palestinian youth on both sides of the ‘Green Line’ (pre-1967 border) in the West Bank and in Israel, the massacre in Gaza and solidarity demonstrations in Israel, have put the oppression of the Palestinians at the centre of international attention. This will not disappear […]
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Solidarity Against Repression in China & Hong Kong. Free ‘Long Hair’ Leung Kwok-hung! Since the Hong Kong mass struggles in 2019, the situation has changed completely. The dictatorship of Xi Jinping and the misnamed Communist Party (CCP) has answered with massive and unprecedented repression of democratic rights aimed at destroying the movement and preventing any […]
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This is a joint statement by International Socialist Alternative and ROSA International. Covid and Economic Depression Threaten Women’s Gains: Organise, Fight Back! While 2019 was a year of massive revolt, in which women and particularly young women — and their demands — formed an integral part and were often at the frontlines, creating hope for […]
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Young Indian climate activist Disha Ravi was arrested by the police at her home in Bangalore on 13 February. She was transferred to a cell in the capital Delhi. The reason for the arrest was her alleged involvement in a solidarity appeal by Greta Thunberg and others for the ongoing farmers’ protest in India. The […]
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Interview with a worker from a big pharmaceutical plant in Belgium. Nationalise the Pharmaceutical Sector! First published in Lutte Socialiste and De Linkse Socialist, monthly papers of PSL/LSP, ISA in Belgium Hopes are high that there is light at the end of the Corona Tunnel, especially now that the vaccination campaign has more or less […]
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Xi Jinping Strikes While Western Powers Are in Disarray The latest sweeping crackdown by the Chinese dictatorship (CCP) in Hong Kong effectively bans political opposition in the city. The fragile “democracy” that has existed in Hong Kong as an exception among Chinese cities is in every practical sense extinguished. 53 Hong Kong opposition activists and […]
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Solidarity message from ISA to the Haft Tappeh sugar factory. Down with the corrupt factory owners & their allies in the Iranian regime To the colleagues and comrades from the Haft Tappeh sugar factory, ISA (International Socialist Alternative) expresses its solidarity with your heroic struggle against the corrupt factory owners and the allied repressive Iranian […]
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