International Workers’ Day greetings from ISA Opposition to the genocidal war in Gaza will dominate this year’s demonstrations on May Day, following over six months of mass protests. With an attack on Rafah approaching, protests can become social explosions in several countries, as millions around the world respond to the call by Palestinian unions to […]
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Crashing economy, vanishing jobs and unpaid wages are forcing workers onto the streets. Jinchuan & Dikang, chinaworker.info China’s economy is now in its deepest crisis since the restoration of capitalism. This is also part of an unprecedented crisis of the global capitalist system. Everywhere the crisis inevitably makes class antagonisms more acute as the capitalist […]
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The economy is tipping into a deflationary crisis with a worsening debt crunch, falling wages and prices, and increasing reliance of fraudulent economic data. The word ‘involution’ or neijuan describes ever increasing inputs that produce no improvements. Think of trying to run up a down escalator. This term has gained mass usage in China since […]
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Solidarity with Gaza … and more from Canada and abroad! Subscribe to Socialist Alternative! You can now subscribe to Socialist Alternative’s magazine for a modest $2 a month or $24 a year and receive each printed issue delivered to your mailbox. With an additional donation, you can become a sustainer of our magazine and build […]
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Tom Crean is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. As we enter a new year, it is evident that on many fronts the situation facing the human race is dire. Of course, there are commentators who insist the opposite (we’ll refer to them again later). But most people know the trendlines are bad. […]
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Hong Liuxing and Adam N. Lee are contributors to chinaworker.info. Recent months have seen a sharp escalation of the dispute between the Philippines and China for sovereignty over islands and ‘features’ — often no more than rocks — in the South China Sea, which is called the West Philippines Sea by the Manila government. Coast […]
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The dictator-in-chief met the warmonger-in-chief on November 15, for long-delayed talks. The last time Xi Jinping and Joe Biden met was in Indonesia a year ago, when they pledged to put a “floor” under their worsening relationship. Then a Chinese spy balloon blew a hole in that floor. The US side cried foul and broke […]
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End the War on Gaza … and more from Canada and abroad! Subscribe to Socialist Alternative! You can now subscribe to Socialist Alternative’s magazine for a modest $2 a month or $24 a year and receive each printed issue delivered to your mailbox. With an additional donation, you can become a sustainer of our magazine […]
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The death of Li Keqiang from a heart attack at the age of 68 has triggered a renewed struggle between the dictatorship’s vast online censorship machinery and the masses whose only semi-legal channel for expression is the internet. Li Keqiang who was China’s premier from 2013 until March 2023, nominally ranked as the second most […]
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This is a statement of ISA’s International Committee. ISA Statement on The New Cold War and Ukraine War Introduction — “The Single Most Important Element of World Relations” ISA has identified a New Cold War between US and Chinese imperialism, which has asserted itself, as “the single most important element of world relations” (ISA World […]
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