Rob Jones is a member of Sotsialisticheskaya Alternativa (ISA in Russia). War has once again broken out on the territory of the former Soviet Union. A long-term unresolved argument over the Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh between the Caucasian republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan has escalated into a conflict, in which Russia and Turkey are backing […]
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This is a joint statement between Socialist Party Northern Ireland and Socialist Alternative in England, Wales and Scotland. Last year, politics was dominated by the constitutional crisis of Brexit. The seriousness of the Covid pandemic and the global economic crisis has meant that the Brexit process has very much taken a back seat since the […]
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Rob Jones is a member of Sotsialisticheskaya Alternativa (ISA in Russia). Over the weekend, protestors once again gathered in Minsk and other cities demanding that Lukashenko should go, following Saturday’s women’s march. In the lead up to the demonstrations rhetoric from the Lukashenko side was again stepped up, and if for several weeks the police […]
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Giorgos Ligouriotis is a member of Xekinima (ISA in Greece). Over 40,000 refugees are trapped on the Greek islands near the Turkish coastline, living under horrific conditions at Refugee Camps which were designed to host one fifth of their current inhabitants. During the winter, tens of thousands of refugees had to deal with the bitter […]
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No to nationalism, no to war, no to Natural Gas drillings! The discovery of hydrocarbon deposits in the Eastern Mediterranean seabed adds another factor to the competition between the ruling classes of Greece, Turkey and Cyprus. Today’s crisis, which has been going on for months, is the worst since the 1974 war, both in terms […]
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George Martin Fell Brown is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Rob Jones is a member of Sotsialisticheskaya Alternativa (ISA in Russia) . On 20th August 1940, Lev Davidovich (Leon) Trotsky was brutally murdered by one of Stalin’s henchmen. To commemorate his work and examine his ideas International Socialist Alternative is publishing a […]
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Nicolas Croes is a member of Linkse Socialistiche Partij / Parti Socialiste de Lutte (ISA in Belgium). French President Emmanuel Macron wanted to dedicate the July 14 Bastille Day national holiday to the nursing staff. But after the catastrophic management of the COVID-19 crisis, very few health care workers fell for this public relations stunt. […]
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Rob Jones is a member of Sotsialisticheskaya Alternativa (ISA in Russia). With the beautiful ironic humour that usually accompanies mass uprisings and revolutions, a video has appeared of Alexandr Lukashenko driving a salon car being chased by a huge mining dump truck, clearly about to crush the car, symbolizing how quickly the mass movement is […]
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Rob Jones is a member of Sotsialisticheskaya Alternativa (ISA in Russia). Sotsialisticheskaya Alternativa on picket in Kyiv The August presidential election was clearly fraudulent. Now Belarusian workers and youth need a socialist alternative to organise opposition. In Minsk, Brest, Grodno and a dozen other cities thousands have come out onto the streets and in many […]
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Connor Rosoman is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). No solution for workers and young people The summer statement by Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak has promised a new round of public spending, with up to £30bn announced to “Support, Create and Protect” jobs. The statement announced some big numbers, with billions being […]
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