Arne Johansson is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden). Pierre Broué takes us on a historic journey that begins with Lev “Lyova” Davidovich Bronstein’s birth on a Ukrainian farm in 1879, the early struggle of his teenage years to understand Marxism and his enthusiastic attempts to organise the Southern Russian Workers’ Union during […]
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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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George Martin Fell Brown and Tony Gong are members of Socialist Alternative in the US. Is the Problem Neoliberalism or Capitalism? The current economic crisis may have been triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, but its roots lie in a deeper crisis of capitalism going back to the financial crash of 2008–9. This ongoing crisis lays […]
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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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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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Per-Åke Westerlund is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden). 2019 marks a definite political turning point globally. Particularly in the last months, we have seen mass struggles and general strikes around the world with revolutionary characteristics. This is a mass explosion, a result of accumulated anger and discontent against those in power, their […]
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Rob Jones is a member of Sotsialisticheskaya Alternativa (CWI in Russia). November the 7th was the 140th anniversary of the birth of Lev Davidovich Trotsky, with Lenin, leader of the Russian revolution. In this article from the Russian section of the CWI, Rob Jones looks at Trotsky’s life. On 20th August 1940, the Stalinist agent […]
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This is a statement by the Provisional Committee of the CWI and Socialist Alternative (England, Wales and Scotland). As many of our readers are aware, the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI), the socialist international organization, which Socialist Alternative Canada is a member of, has been through a serious internal crisis since the end of […]
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Statement of CWI majority. Between August 12 and 16, the majority of the International Executive Committee (IEC), elected at the last World Congress of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) in 2016, met to discuss the split of the CWI, initiated by the international minority faction (IDWCTCWI) in the period after the November 2018 […]
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