Top Chinese economist’s speech reveals growing alarm as economic crisis deepens China’s real unemployment rate is 10.2% according to a top Chinese economist. That’s double the official rate – currently just 5% – claimed by the CCP regime. A rate of 10 percent adds up to around 48 million people out of work – more […]
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Lessons for Fighting the Far Right Today This July we commemorate the 90th anniversary of the revolutionary workers’ uprising in Spain against the fascist military coup of July 17, 1936, led by General Franco. This was one of the most powerful working-class movements in history, which, in just a few days, took control of Catalonia, […]
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In the media we are bombarded with endless warnings about the “bond markets.” But despite the ominous-sounding headlines about rising yields, or Andy Burnham’s call for Britain to stop being “in hock” to them, it is rarely explained what the bond market actually is, or why it matters. The ups and downs of the markets […]
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Resistance to AI Data centres is spreading across Canada too from Hamilton, Ontario, to Olds, Alberta, and Vancouver, BC. We will have an article soon on Canadian opposition. Saline Township, Michigan has just a few thousand residents, most of whom were extremely concerned when OpenAI and Oracle announced plans to build a massive $16 billion […]
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In Kassel, Germany, at the invitation of the local chapter of Die Linke, 180 people from all over Germany gathered to discuss the current situation of militarization and rearmament and to formulate plans for the resistance we need. Ever since the federal government approved a military buildup package worth several hundred billion euros last spring, […]
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This article was originally published in early June 2026, in issue #3 of International Marxism, the international political journal of International Socialist Alternative. Click here to subscribe or to buy a copy of the full issue. Last July, the announcement that Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana would be forming a new political party sent a […]
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While workers pay through the nose for shortages stemming from Trump’s war on Iran, his billionaire friends are gambling trillions on the AI bubble. Elon Musk’s SpaceX has outraced Anthropic and OpenAI to be the first AI giant on the stock market, in the largest initial public offering (IPO) in history. Musk had restructured SpaceX […]
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This is the fourth World Perspectives statement produced by ISA since the inauguration of Donald Trump’s second presidency. This is based on a recent discussion n of ISA’s International Committee. The last, published on 12 February, commented on where his 2026 US imperialist offensive could lead to next: “Following his successful decapitation and subjugation of […]
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This is the editorial from the latest issue of International Marxism, which focusses on “Which Way Forward for the Left,” that includes articles on: Contact us to order a copy. War, a skyrocketing cost of living, climate catastrophe — for the majority of the world’s population today the future feels bleak. Around the world, ruling […]
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As the threat of continued war with Iran grows, working people are once again being told to prepare for sacrifice while corporations and military contractors prepare for profit. The Trump administration’s war on Iran is against the interests of ordinary working people. Workers in Iran face the constant threat of renewed bombing campaigns and economic […]
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