Chinaworker.info: This year we are commemorating 100 years since the Second Chinese Revolution 1925-27. This was one of the most remarkable and significant waves of mass struggle ever seen. In the year 1925 the working class of Shanghai, Guangzhou and other industrial centres fought hundreds of strikes against foreign occupation, tyrannical managers and starvation wages, and […]
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Zuhair Al-Anhar In December 1987, after 20 years of horrific occupation, the movement for Palestinian liberation was set ablaze. An escalating protest movement erupted into a national uprising when four Palestinian laborers were killed by a truck driver at an IDF checkpoint. What followed was a six-year rebellion that would live forever in the imagination […]
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The single most important development in American history—perhaps second only to the defeat of the slaveowners in the Civil War—was the rise of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), the union federation which had its founding convention 90 years ago on November 9, 1935. In the 20 years of its existence, 42 million workers went […]
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Gender-based violence continues to be a scourge in Canada. On the 36th anniversary of the Montreal massacre, Socialist Alternative Canada’s Socialist Feminist Working Group organized a powerful meeting against gender violence and oppression. About thirty people participated in the meeting, both in-person and connecting through Zoom from cities across Canada, including watch parties in Vancouver, […]
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“We need [to] bludgeon cunts like you in the streets,” an anonymous account posts under an activist’s tweet about strikes. “Someone needs to cave your fucking head in.” These threats are examples of the misogyny and violence that women face daily. Ending digital violence is the theme of this year’s UN Day on Eliminating Violence […]
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In Alice Through the Looking Glass, Humpty Dumpty states that, “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” While some people do use words just the way they want, this does not make for clear understanding. Scientists try to use words in a clearly defined manner […]
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We Need a Socialist Feminist Defence Against Gender-Based Violence The idea that capitalism brings ever-increasing progress toward equality has been swept away like the mirage that it always was. On 23 November, ISA’s Socialist Feminist Commission met, with members from Canada, Brazil, England, Wales and Scotland, Germany, Quebec, Sweden, and the United States attending. We […]
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Nepal, Indonesia, Morocco, Madagascar, Peru, Timor-Leste, and the Philippines – Gen Z rises up Corruption, unemployment, and inequality run rampant across the world. But Gen Z has had enough of capitalism’s crises and is fighting back. In Indonesia and Nepal, tens of thousands of young people kicked off revolts against gross displays of corruption, and […]
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US-backed coup in 1965 unleashes one of 20th Century’s biggest mass killings The military crackdown against the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) that began in October 1965 and continued throughout the following year, was one of the bloodiest massacres of the 20th century with possibly one million people killed. Even the CIA, which conspired with Indonesia’s […]
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Capitalist crisis, the reactionary wave and revolutionary potential From July 26-30, over 120 Marxists descended on the northern German town of Kiel for International Socialist Alternative’s World School. Participants (including dozens more who participated online) came from 16 different countries and regions – Austria, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, England, Wales and Scotland, Germany, Hong Kong, […]
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