Sudan: Revolution and Counter-Revolution Back on the Streets

Serge Jordan is a member of International Socialist Alternative. “Millions of suffering workers, young people, women and oppressed are aspiring to a Sudan free of violence and poverty, while the generals and warlords who rule and loot the country are only waiting for their moment to strike back more forcefully to defend their power and […]

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Tunisia: No to Coup, No to Ennahda

Serge Jordan is a member of International Socialist Alternative. Build the Fight for Socialist Change Just over ten years since the popular uprising forced Tunisian dictator Ben Ali from power, new convulsions are rocking the country. Now the President has dismissed the government and frozen Parliament for 30 days. Late on Sunday, 25 July, Tunisia’s […]

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India: Working People Face Catastrophe

Serge Jordan is a member of International Socialist Alternative. India is caught in a perfect storm of crisis, facing its worst public health catastrophe since independence, an unprecedented economic downturn, and the most serious conflict with neighboring China in more than fifty years. India confirmed its first Covid-19 case on January 30. The deeply reactionary, […]

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Lebanon: Mass Fury over Beirut’s Explosion Heightens Political Crisis

Serge Jordan is a member of International Socialist Alternative. “Before the Lebanese were angry because they had no money and no electricity. Now they have no windows and many do not have homes. If there is no bread, the people will be forced to violence. No electricity, no home, no bread? That’s a revolution” Abu […]

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COVID-19: Capitalism Driving Africa Into the Abyss

Serge Jordan is a member of International Socialist Alternative. Capitalism and Imperialism in the dock The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown into sharp relief the profound social inequalities prevailing under modern capitalism. Nowhere more than in Africa. The Global Health Security (GHS) Index is a measured assessment of 195 countries’ capacity and readiness to face outbreaks […]

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Egyptian protesters break the wall of fear

Serge Jordan is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. On the evening of Friday, September 20, widespread protests broke out in Egypt. Hundreds of people came down to Cairo’s Tahrir Square, the epicentre of the January 2011 revolution, and many more marched through the streets of other parts of the country, including […]

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Sudan: Counter-revolution rears its ugly head

Serge Jordan is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. On Monday June 3 before dawn, the military regime and its thugs brutally dispersed the sit-in which had been camping outside the military headquarters in Sudan’s capital Khartoum since April 6, and which had served as the focal point for the ongoing uprising […]

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Algeria: Bouteflika quits – No trust in the old elite and the generals! Power to the revolutionary workers and youth!

Serge Jordan is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. Bowing to weeks of mass protests and a deluge of workers’ strikes, Algeria’s senile and octogenarian President, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, resigned on Tuesday 2 April. This news has been received with huge enthusiasm and scenes of celebration on Algerian streets. It marks a turning […]

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Sudan: long-simmering rage of the masses explodes on the streets

Serge Jordan is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. Sudan has been rocked by extensive anti-government protests since December 19, unprecedented in their geographic scope and duration. People in the diaspora have come out in large numbers worldwide in front of Sudanese embassies to showcase their solidarity with the heroic struggle of […]

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Tunisia: Explosion of protests against government financial measures

The explosion of protests that broke out this week against the new Finances Law (budget law) 2018, a battery of measures against the working and middle classes, has again put into perspectives the liberal commentators’ fairy tale about Tunisia’s “successful democratic transition”. In reality, the country remains an open battleground between the forces of revolution […]

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