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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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On March 27, the trade unions launched a so-called “Megastreik”. Is this the beginning of a larger strike movement in Germany? Since 2015, there have not been many large strike movements in Germany. For years, socialists and left-wing trade unionists have been looking with envy to France and the UK, wishing for a similar strike […]
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This is the text of a leaflet issued by ISA in France. Set up strike committees in every workplace, every school, every district On March 23, France has been on strike with massive demonstrations across the country. According to the CGT trade union there are 700,000 on the streets of Paris alone. In Marseille there […]
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Report of the discussion on World Perspectives at ISA’s 2023 World Congress Climate disasters, raging inflation and the threat of a world recession. A brutal war in Ukraine and rising global tensions. Three years of COVID with health systems teetering on the breaking points. Political polarization and unstable governments. The ruling class looks to the […]
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Tom Crean is a member of ISA’s International Executive Committee. Russian Offensive Begins as Ukraine War Escalates One year on, not only is the war far from over, it is clearly escalating with the possibility of becoming a much wider conflict. The horrific war in Ukraine, which began nearly a year ago, is by far […]
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