This is a statement of ISA’s International Editorial Board. Workers of the World Unite Against Decaying Capitalism A revolutionary socialist alternative is needed. We call on all workers, women, youth and those who agree with us to join us in building International Socialist Alternative. International Editorial Board “The burdens of war will consume the best […]
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James McCabe is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). This year marks 175 years since ‘Black 47’, the worst year of the devastating ‘Great Famine’ in Ireland. Every place is unique in its own way, but Ireland is one of the only parts of the world that has fewer people today than […]
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Tom Costello is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). The British ruling class would like to present today’s capitalist “democracy” as one that was gradual, “peaceful,” and a kind gift handed down from above. “Once the poor had no rights, and then society naturally progressed towards the great democracy we have today […]
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Geert Cool is a member of Linkse Socialistiche Partij / Parti Socialiste de Lutte (ISA in Belgium). War is the continuation of politics by other means. The contradictions of capitalism lead to war. They cannot be negotiated away. Nor do they disappear through further military escalation. Wars usually end in exhaustion, defeat and destruction, or […]
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Now that the convoy has been cleared from Ottawa’s streets, it is worth remembering when desperate workers tried to take their protest to the federal government in Ottawa in 1935. The “On to Ottawa Trek” saw unemployed men housed in military relief camps travel by rail from Vancouver, stopping at towns along the way gaining […]
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In 1917, working class women started the revolution that stopped the war — Lets do it again! Socialist Feminists around the world will march and organise walkouts and strikes against imperialist war, exposing once again the brutality of capitalist oppression and exploitation On the eve of March 8, the international day of struggle of working […]
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Socialist Answer to Climate Chaos Youth: Fighting for Our Future Doug Ford Hypocrisy Alberta’s Woes Continue Indigenous Struggles Against Environmental Racism Precarious Renters: Berlin Victory Life of a Precarious University Teacher Socialist Sawant Defeats Right Wing Page from History: Japanese Internment Book review: Five Little Indians by Michelle Good Workers Fight Back … and more […]
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James Fleming is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). Capitalism’s “solutions” to climate change are unfair or unworkable, when not outright disastrous. Using reusable coffee cups or paper straws won’t avert climate change. Telling ordinary people to buy expensive new electric cars as a way of saving the environment is today’s equivalent […]
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Sean Burns is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Northern Ireland). Sunday, 30 January 1972 saw one of the bloodiest and most callous atrocities committed during the Troubles. In an event that would become known as Bloody Sunday, British paratroopers (paras) fired indiscriminate live rounds into a crowd of unarmed civil rights protesters […]
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Manus Lenihan is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). A comet is about to wipe out all life on Earth — this was the basic idea of not one, but two Hollywood movies released in 1998. Deep Impact was considered more ‘realistic’ than Armageddon, but both were fantasies of the 1990s, back […]
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