Lynn Walsh is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). Eighty Years Since Leon Trotsky’s Assassination An updated version of an article first published by the CWI, predecessor of ISA, in 1980 (The CWI has since been renamed International Socialist Alternative (ISA)) On 20 August, 1940, Trotsky was struck a fatal […]
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This article was first published in 2015 in the Greek magazine Marxist Thought. It is now published in English for the first time. In March, China’s ornamental “parliament” the National People’s Congress (NPC) held its annual session for ten days in Beijing. Rather than real debates and deliberations, the NPC and its twin chamber the […]
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On Tuesday, June 30th 2020 the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) will be celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of its independence from Belgian colonial rule. Celebrations are set to be subdued in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. President Tshisekedi announced that the funds destined for a grand celebration will be redirected to fight the pandemic […]
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The metaphors of war have been in abundance since the onset of COVID-19. In Britain, the Queen, in a speech, evoked the WW2 song, “We’ll Meet Again.” The Italian Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, also invoked WW2 when he used Winston Churchill’s words to talk about Italy’s “darkest hour.” Donald Trump has described himself as a […]
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Per-Åke Westerlund is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden). Review of The Second World War by Anthony Beevor, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2012 Seventy five years ago, the European continent and large areas of Asia and Africa were on fire in the second world war, with inhuman suffering of the worst kind caused by […]
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Rob Jones is a member of Sotsialisticheskaya Alternativa (ISA in Russia). Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by his revolutionary alias, Vladimir Lenin, was born in the city of Simbirsk, now known as Ulyanovsk, on Russia’s Volga river a century and a half ago. By the age of 30, he had earned the reputation as one […]
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Keishia Taylor is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). The 1918-1919 “Spanish Flu” killed between 50-100 million people, more than the number of deaths in the First and Second World Wars combined. According to expert Laura Spinney the Spanish flu “re-sculpted human populations more radically than anything since the Black Death.” The […]
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Per-Åke Westerlund is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden). “The shock to the global economy from COVID-19 has been both faster and more severe than … even the Great Depression.” That comment by economist Nouriel Roubini on March 24 indicates the growing possibility of global events entering an entirely new period. One way […]
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Eleanor Crossey-Malone is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). January 15th marked the 101st anniversary of the murder of the outstanding revolutionary socialist leader, Rosa Luxemburg. This article, first published by Socialist Party Ireland looks at her defence of both the fundamental ideas of Marxism and the necessity of revolutionary change against […]
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On January 9th 1905, hundreds of thousands of Russian workers flooded out on a massive demonstration in Petersburg, then the capital of Russia, to demand from the Tsar that he implement their demands. They were met by the Imperial Guard, who brutally shot into the crowds leaving over 200 dead, hundreds wounded and thousands under […]
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