Jason Toynbee is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). 40th anniversary of his death Bob Marley died forty years ago, on May 11, 1981. It’s an extraordinary fact, but today he remains the only global superstar from the neocolonial world. Not only that, he is the only global superstar who achieved success […]
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Amy Ferguson is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Northern Ireland). Tragic Consequence of Missed Opportunity for Socialist Change May 3 is 100 years since Ireland was partitioned under the “Government of Ireland Act” to leave the largely Catholic Republic of Ireland as an independent state and Northern Ireland with its part Protestant, […]
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Per-Åke Westerlund is a member of ISA’s International Executive. In the first of a two-part article Per-Åke Westerlund looks at the rise of Chinese imperialism and what it means for building international workers’ solidarity against international capitalism China becoming the workshop of the world was the main driver of capitalist globalisation of the last decades. […]
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Women’s rights activists in China are again under attack. The Chinese dictatorship (CCP) feels threatened by growing radicalization among women, part of a wider trend of radicalization in society and among young people. The attacks follow a similar pattern. Firstly, feminists are being viciously hounded by nationalistic pro-CCP internet trolls in a coordinated campaign. A […]
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Florence Custance was a teacher, feminist, labour militant, Marxist educator and one of the founders of the Communist Party of Canada. Born in England in 1881, Custance was trained as a school teacher and came to Canada as a young woman. In Canada she was active in labour and feminist struggles. She was one of […]
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The 2003 film The Corporation explored the question “if a corporation is a person, what kind of person is it?” The film’s answer, in one of the best documentaries condemning corporations and capitalism, was that corporations are psychopaths. Psychopathy manifests itself in superficial charm, a grandiose sense of self-worth, a manipulative personality, pathological lying, lack […]
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Tony Gong is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Winning the Green New Deal and Medicare for All The global economic crisis has made clearer than ever the need for social spending. Workers, students, and youth in the US are rallying behind Medicare for All (M4A), cancellation of student debt, and a Green […]
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Harper Cleves is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). 150 years ago this month, history was made when working-class Parisians established the Paris Commune on March 18, 1871. This represented the first example of a society run by and for the working class – a workers’ state. While the Commune lasted for […]
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This is a joint statement by International Socialist Alternative and ROSA International. Covid and Economic Depression Threaten Women’s Gains: Organise, Fight Back! While 2019 was a year of massive revolt, in which women and particularly young women — and their demands — formed an integral part and were often at the frontlines, creating hope for […]
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Sarah Moayeri, Flo Klabacher, and Brettros are members of Sozialistische LinksPartei (ISA in Austria). One hundred and fifty years ago, Rosa Luxemburg (Rozalia Luksenburg) was born in what is now Poland, the daughter of a Jewish timber merchant. The young Rosa became politically active at an early age; at 16 she joined the revolutionary circle […]
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