Till Ruster is a member of Sozialistische LinksPartei (ISA in Austria). Sixty-five years ago, on 23 October about 20,000 Hungarians protested in Budapest in support of a manifesto which called for Hungarian independence, democratic socialism based on land reform, public ownership and democratic rights. The Hungarian revolution had started. A captured Soviet tank is rolling […]
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Lucy Redler is a member of Sozialistische Alternative (ISA in Germany). Lucy Redler ran for office as a direct candidate for the Left Party in the Neukölln electoral district of Berlin. She is a member of the Left Party, the Anticapitalist Left movement within the Left Party (Antikapitalistische Linke or AKL in German), and the […]
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Rob Jones is a member of Sotsialisticheskaya Alternativa (CWI in Russia). The impression of the press conference on August 19, 1991 as eight aged generals, KGB officers and Stalinist bureaucrats announced “emergency rule” could not have filled those who hoped they would save the Soviet Union with confidence. Nothing could demonstrate better how the junta […]
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Solidarity as the Last Line of Defence Climate change is here and now. Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Belgium have this week suffered severe flooding, costing at the latest count over 200 lives. The necessary resources must be mobilised to deal with it in order to provide answers. Apocalyptic images followed one another without interruption. […]
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Elin Gauffin is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden). Victory For the Struggle Monday, June 21, 2021 became a historic day in Sweden. For the first time ever, a prime minister has been defeated, after the Riksdag voted in favour of no-confidence. It is the struggle from below against market rents that overthrew […]
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Workers’ Movement Must Organise for Struggle and Solidarity In June, the French departmental and regional elections were marked by a historic abstention: 68% of voters stayed away from the ballot box in the first round. In the 18–24 age group, this abstention even climbs to 87%! This is, of course, an illustration of the crisis […]
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Michael O’Brien is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). It can take the passage of time, years in fact, to have a sense of a particular strike’s place in history. Among trade unionists, socialists, activists, and sometimes the wider working class, disputes such as the six-month-long strike of An Post workers in […]
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Claire Laker-Mansfield is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). The votes cast on May’s super-Thursday elections are still being counted. But already the picture painted is one of an utter disaster for Starmer’s Labour. Labour heading to lose over 200 council seats and further losses in the Scottish parliament. Since the 2019 […]
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John Hird is a member of Socialismo Revolucionario (ISA in the Spanish State). In a very polarised election the right-wing People’s Party have won a clear victory at the expense of the centre right Ciudadanos party and former left party PSOE. The clear victory of the right-wing People’s Party (PP) in the Madrid regional elections […]
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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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