Socialist Alternative Magazine #13

Climate Change and Jobs New Politics Needed Socialist Youth China from Tienanmen 1989 to Hong Kong 2019 Indigenous Women Socialist Campaigns in US Sudan’s Revolution End Sexual Violence at Work … more from Canada and the world If you would like to order copy(ies) contact: [email protected]

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Socialist Alternative Magazine #12

Build Social Housing Alberta’s Election Ontario Education Rebellion Canada: Looking Ahead Youth Climate Strikes Resisting the White Paper Winnipeg General Strike … more from Canada and the world If you would like to order copy(ies) contact: [email protected]

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Socialist Alternative Magazine #11

Housing Emergency! Resist Ford! Jean Swanson’s Victory in Vancouver World Economy Climate Disaster … more news from Canada and the world If you would like to order copy(ies) contact: [email protected]

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Russia 1917-18: Revolution and Counter-revolution

Per-Åke Westerlund is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden). After two and a half years of the First World War, Russia exploded in February 1917 in a revolution that overthrew the Tsar’s dictatorship. The capitalist provisional governments that took over did not at all fulfill the expectations of the masses of an end […]

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German Revolution 1918 – 1919

Robert Bechert is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. November 9 is a momentous date in German history, as it is the date when the Kaiser was overthrown and a republic declared. Internationally, this date is sometimes overshadowed by the signing, on November 11, 1918, of the Armistice ending formally the central […]

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Clara Zetkin: The fascist threat

Iain Dalton is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). The rise of fascism in Italy in the early 1920s represented a new, extremely dangerous threat to the workers’ movement. It provoked urgent debate in the early years of the Communist International – before its policy of workers’ unity to defeat […]

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Socialist Alternative Magazine #10

The City We Need Trudeau’s Pipeline Interview with Jean Swanson Student Debt Mountain Indigenous Education … more news from Canada and the world If you would like to order copy(ies) contact: [email protected]

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70 Years on From the Foundation of Israel

Judy Beishon is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). Socialists Fight for Palestinian Liberation and Workers’ Unity The 70th anniversary of the 1948 foundation of the Israeli state is being marked this month in Israel. For Palestinian refugees, however, it marks only their ‘Nakba’, the Arabic word for catastrophe, when […]

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200 Years of Karl Marx

Peter Taaffe is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). Marxist ideas more relevant than ever The 200th anniversary of the birth of the great Karl Marx is on 5 May. Marx, together with Friedrich Engels, formulated the ideas of scientific socialism which were to shake the world in the nineteenth […]

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Students protesting in Paris 1968

1968: year of revolution

Peter Taaffe is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). Factory and university occupations in France. US civil rights and rage at the Vietnam war. Upheavals in Italy, Pakistan and Northern Ireland. Revolt in Stalinist Czechoslovakia. Repression in Mexico. Events in 1968 sent shockwaves around the world. Some years stand out […]

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