Rob Jones is a member of Sotsialisticheskaya Alternativa (CWI in Russia). The impression of the press conference on August 19, 1991 as eight aged generals, KGB officers and Stalinist bureaucrats announced “emergency rule” could not have filled those who hoped they would save the Soviet Union with confidence. Nothing could demonstrate better how the junta […]
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Rob Jones is a member of Sotsialisticheskaya Alternativa (ISA in Russia). A graphic example of the current situation in Myanmar was given the other day, when while speaking to one of our correspondents, a bomb exploded in the background. Now nearly four months after the military announced their take-over on 1 February, the country has […]
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Terrorist Tatmadaw massacres hundreds in Myanmar International Socialist Alternative, with workers and youth across the world, expresses its complete disgust…
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Rob Jones is a member of Sotsialisticheskaya Alternativa (ISA in Russia). The latest phase of the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, the Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan, appears to have been concluded. Fighting which started at the end of September ended with a “peace agreement” on November 10 leaving thousands of soldiers and civilians dead and the map of […]
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Rob Jones is a member of Sotsialisticheskaya Alternativa (ISA in Russia). War has once again broken out on the territory of the former Soviet Union. A long-term unresolved argument over the Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh between the Caucasian republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan has escalated into a conflict, in which Russia and Turkey are backing […]
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Rob Jones is a member of Sotsialisticheskaya Alternativa (ISA in Russia). Over the weekend, protestors once again gathered in Minsk and other cities demanding that Lukashenko should go, following Saturday’s women’s march. In the lead up to the demonstrations rhetoric from the Lukashenko side was again stepped up, and if for several weeks the police […]
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George Martin Fell Brown is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Rob Jones is a member of Sotsialisticheskaya Alternativa (ISA in Russia) . On 20th August 1940, Lev Davidovich (Leon) Trotsky was brutally murdered by one of Stalin’s henchmen. To commemorate his work and examine his ideas International Socialist Alternative is publishing a […]
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Rob Jones is a member of Sotsialisticheskaya Alternativa (ISA in Russia). With the beautiful ironic humour that usually accompanies mass uprisings and revolutions, a video has appeared of Alexandr Lukashenko driving a salon car being chased by a huge mining dump truck, clearly about to crush the car, symbolizing how quickly the mass movement is […]
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Rob Jones is a member of Sotsialisticheskaya Alternativa (ISA in Russia). Sotsialisticheskaya Alternativa on picket in Kyiv The August presidential election was clearly fraudulent. Now Belarusian workers and youth need a socialist alternative to organise opposition. In Minsk, Brest, Grodno and a dozen other cities thousands have come out onto the streets and in many […]
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Rob Jones is a member of Sotsialisticheskaya Alternativa (ISA in Russia). If Siberia were a country, it would be the biggest in the world, stretching from the Arctic to Mongolia and Central Asia, from the Pacific Ocean to the Ural mountains on the edge of Europe. It contains incredible nature including the magnificent Lake Baikal […]
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