On 18 January, one third of Greenland’s population demonstrated against US imperialism’s threat of annexation. At the same time, at least 20,000 people gathered in solidarity in Copenhagen under the slogan “Greenland for the Greenlanders,” and tens of thousands more demonstrated across Denmark. Previous opinion polls show that 85 percent of Greenlanders oppose Trump’s plans […]
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“A week is a long time in politics,” British Prime Minister Harold Wilson is said to have remarked in response to the twists and turns in the currency crisis that shook Britain in 1964. All the various so-called peace proposals presented over the past week as a basis for ending the war in Ukraine give […]
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The negotiations that have taken place since April, and earlier, have been characterized by mafia diplomacy. The Trump administration is becoming increasingly authoritarian and threatening—both at home and on the world stage. At the same time, support for Trump is falling and his new budget is unpopular. A majority believe that it will make things […]
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Shockwaves sent through world capitalism The punitive tariffs announced by President-elect Donald Trump, 25 percent on all steel and aluminum imports along the paused tariffs against Canada and Mexico and the new tariffs on Chinese goods are a dramatic escalation of the global trade war. It is clear that the Trump administration is increasingly prepared […]
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Per Olsson is a member of Socialistiskt Alternativ (ISA in Sweden) The EU elections disaster of the ruling party, President Macron’s Renaissance Party, has led to the calling of new general elections in France, with the first round to be held on 30 June and the second round on 7 July. It is the EU […]
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Per Olsson is a member of Socialistiskt Alternativ (ISA in Sweden). On Thursday and Friday (February 1 and 2), 290,000 Finnish workers held two days of strike, in the largest ever trade union mobilisation to protest against the draconian attacks on welfare, job security, the right to strike and collective bargaining by the country’s right-wing […]
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Per Olsson is a member of Socialistiskt Alternativ (ISA in Sweden). Review of Chinese Imperialism and the New Cold Warm Vincent Kolo, To understand the dangerous new world order that is emerging, Chinese Imperialism and the New Cold War, written by Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info (International Socialist Alternative, ISA, in China) is a must read. The […]
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Per Olsson is a member of Socialistiskt Alternativ (ISA in Sweden). “We are drifting into one of the most dangerous periods in human history,” said the Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), when the Institute published its annual report (SIPRI Yearbook) on world military expenditure, international arms transfers, arms production and armed […]
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Per Olsson is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden). The World and Sweden have never been so unequal. 81 billionaires hold more wealth than 50% of the world combined. Since 2020 the wealth grab by the super-rich has accelerated, and the richest 1% have captured almost two-thirds of all new wealth. This is […]
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Per Olsson is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden). One person dying from hunger every 48 seconds in East Africa due to the lethal combination of wars, capitalism and global warming After the 2011 famine in Somalia, the world’s power elite said, “never again”, but now the disaster is happening all over again, […]
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