Socialist Alternative Magazine #18

The newest issue of our magazine Socialist Alternative is now published. Stolen Lives Stolen Land Alberta’s Misery Continues Slashing Cuts in Newfoundland and Labrador Ontario Education Shambles UniteHere! The Struggle Continues Fight For Sick Pay: Join a Union! Life of a Grocery Worker “Can’t Have Capitalism without Racism” The Road to Peace in Israel/Palestine … […]

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Why Britney Spears’ Struggle Gets An Echo

Ginger Jentzen is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Mega-pop star Britney Spears gave twenty-three minutes of testimony at a recent court hearing, and forcefully spoke against the conservatorship used to dramatically limit her rights and access to her earnings. Audience for the #FreeBritney movement – people who believe Spears’ father is holding […]

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Book Review: Marx at the Arcade

George Martin Fell Brown is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Video games can be light entertainment or serious art, but they’re also big business. 2013’s Grand Theft Auto V currently stands as the most financially successful entertainment product in history. In recent years, the video game industry has come under increasing scrutiny […]

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Who is This Bob Dylan?

Albert Kropf is a member of Sozialistische LinksPartei (ISA in Austria). On the 80th Birthday of Robert Allen Zimmermann With his skills and fame, a Bob Dylan at the forefront of the social protest movements would have had the power to help unhinge the world. Instead, the old Dylan preferred to fish for the big […]

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250 Years Since Robert Owen’ Birth

Tom Costello is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). “Every social movement, every real advance in England on behalf of the workers links itself on to the name of Robert Owen.” Friedrich Engels This month marks 250 years since the birth of a legendary utopian socialist. While today many of his ideas […]

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Bob Marley: Fighter for a Transformed World

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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100 Years of Partition of Ireland

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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China’s State Capitalist Imperialism

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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