Julie Walton is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). DP Canada is one of the major port companies refusing to negotiate with the ILWU in BC. They are owned by DP World, a Dubai based company that made profits before taxes, etc of $5 billion in 20022. In March of that year, […]
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In the media industry, there’s an old saying: “if it bleeds, it leads.” Sometimes the blood is real and gory, sometimes it’s a metaphor where the story in question involves drama, suspense, conflict or death, and, of course, “human interest.” The story gets top billing — the lead news story. And often it will displace […]
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The mutiny by Prigozhin and his Wagner mercenaries drew to sudden close yesterday (June 25) evening. This is a preliminary comment on the events. After 24 hours of dramatically rising tensions, Russian TV has announced that negotiations between Belarusian dictator Aleksander Lukashenko and the leader of the Wagner mercenaries Evgeniy Prigozhin had been successful. Prigozhin […]
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Paul Smith is a member of Alternatywa Socjalistyczna (ISA in Poland). Half a million protesters took to the streets on 4 June against the right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) government in what is claimed to be the biggest demonstration in Poland since the collapse of Stalinism in 1989. The march was called by Donald Tusk […]
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Bob Sulatycki is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). Four months of protest across France. Over a dozen national strike days of action. Rolling strikes and protests, student and school student strikes, hundreds of arrests, road blockages, the storming of luxury shops and restaurants. The catalyst for this movement has been the […]
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Interview in 2004 with ISA member Laurence Coates, full-time Militant organizer in Liverpool in the 1980s. It is 40 years since the legendary Militant-led city council was elected to power in Liverpool, then Britain’s fifth largest city. On 5 May, 1983, Labour won the local elections in Liverpool, gaining 12 seats with a 40 percent increase in […]
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Eugenio Marcigliano is a member of Lotta per il Socialismo in Italy. April 25 marks the liberation of Italian territory from Nazi occupation in 1945 and the end of two decades of fascist barbarism. This historical reality is today challenged by the revisionism of the right-wing forces in government, in particular by la Lega and […]
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Cristina is a member of ISA in Portugal. Education workers rise up against their precarity, bringing 150,000 onto the streets of Lisbon. New unions and methods of struggle appear and stir up the still waters of the established unions. The Decline of Public Education and the Challenges Workers Face Every Day Over the last five […]
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Per-Åke Westerlund is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden). The expected Ukrainian spring offensive against Russian occupation forces is getting closer. Preparations have been underway since November. Since last autumn, tens of thousands of soldiers have died in World War I style fighting, especially around the city of Bakhmut. Russian forces have captured […]
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