The student-led protests in India secured a major victory when their main target, Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, resigned on Saturday (25 July). His resignation is a major setback for the reactionary Hindu nationalist BJP government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. However, the struggle must continue. “His resignation is only the first step”, as it […]
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The next step – a workers’ struggle for real change The parliamentary election in Hungary on April 12 turned into a stinging and historic defeat for the autocratic Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his party, the ruling far-right Fidesz. The election dealt a blow to all the world’s Trumpists and resulted in a defeat for […]
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Less than an hour and a half before Trump’s apocalyptic threat that “an entire civilization will die tonight, never to return” risked becoming a horrific reality, Washington backed down. Trump announced that he had agreed to a two-week ceasefire with Iran. The pause in the war provides at least a temporary respite for the people […]
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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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