So far, the year 2021 has brought no relief from the ills of 2020. Rather, the problems have worsened. The second wave of the pandemic is more intense than the first, with the average number of deaths again exceeding a thousand a day, while government policy leads to the collapse of health care and delays […]
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Capitalism’s COVID Disaster Women Organize Against Oppression Indigenous Struggles Continue The Struggle for Jobs and Climate US – China Cold War Will Continue Latin America: Struggle Returns Unite Here: A Fighting Local in BC Housing Crisis Ahead If you’d like to order paper copies, email us [email protected] Please make a donation towards our costs and […]
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Marcos Ariel is a member of Alternativa Socialista (ISA in Argentina). A Triumph for the ‘Green Tide’ Movement In a historic day, the morning of December 30 and after 12 hours of debate, the archaic Argentine Senate approved the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy Act (IVE) by 38 votes in against 29. When the result of […]
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Mauro Espinola is a member of Alternativa Socialista (ISA in Mexico). The first of a series of articles that seeks to clarify and outline the nature of the Mexican Revolution from a class point of view. November 20 marked the 110th anniversary of the beginning of the Mexican Revolution of 1910, in which thousands of […]
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Josafat Arrieta is a member of Alternativa Socialista (ISA in Mexico). On October 25, Chile held the plebiscite that defined the future of the constitution inherited from the military dictatorship. The resounding result in favor of a new constitution was the most recent expression of the movement that began on October 18, 2019. The social […]
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Dean O’Donnell is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). The accumulated rage of the Guatemalan masses reached boiling point on Saturday, November 21. A wave of protests erupted in response to a new government bill that, in the midst of a pandemic, proposed major cuts to healthcare and education. Tens of thousands […]
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Josafat Arrieta and Christian Tello are members of Alternativa Socialista (ISA in Mexico). On 1 December, it will be two years since Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) took power. The overwhelming victory of the Movement for National Regeneration (Morena) on July 1, 2018 came as a result of years of growing misery for the majority […]
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Emily Culver is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Tens of thousands of protestors have taken to the streets across Peru to protest the illegitimate impeachment of Peruvian President Martín Vizcarra. The coup comes after years of political turmoil. In the most recent presidential election in 2016, centrist Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (PPK) narrowly […]
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On October 2 we published an article on the waves of killings and the protests in Colombia. Socialist Alternative also wrote a letter to the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and we have only received an automatic reply (the letter is at the end of the October 2 article). Since then there have […]
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Max Toynbee is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). Review of The Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James (published 1938) Most schools teach pupils that the Atlantic slave trade went against European “enlightenment” principles of rationality, equality and democracy; a horror perpetrated against docile and simple Africans that was abolished by high minded powerful European […]
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