This was the introduction to a discussion at ISA’s International Committee on June 26. Of course, Donald Trump’s presidency still dominates world perspectives. He is a symbol of capitalism in the 2020s and even more so the second half of the 2020s, as we approach another tumultuous ‘30s’. His reactionary ideas and repression are also […]
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Fight The Rich, Not Their Wars: NO War with Iran On June 21, US warplanes dropped its “bunker buster” bombs on three Iranian nuclear sites, including one heavily fortified site, Fordow, that is critical to Iran’s nuclear program. The US military has now directly entered into war with Iran, side by side with the ever […]
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For socialists and workers’ organisations against the war, stepping up the mass international antiwar movement is extremely urgent. After 5 days of war, Netanyahu and Trump both ordered the entire population of Tehran to evacuate, stressing Israel’s military superiority and “control of the skies”. The latest reports cite over 220 dead civilians in Iran while […]
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Only the working class can stop war — urgent international workers’ action needed to shut down the war machine The genocidal Israeli regime’s large-scale military attack on Iran may be the beginning of a larger and longer regional war. The working class and poor masses, as well as the region’s reactionary regimes now await the […]
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A coordinated refusal to transport any arms destined for Israel, where they are used to continue the genocidal onslaught, could bring the Israeli war machine to a halt. Workers at docks in Italy and France stopped shipments of weapons to Israel last week. The 19 pallets of components were destined for Haifa where they would […]
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End the siege, occupation and capitalism! International Socialist Alternative condemns with the greatest indignation Israel’s war crimes against the people of Gaza and now also against Madleen — the Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s ship. On the ship at the time of writing is Greta Thunberg who, together with eleven other human rights activists, including EU parliamentarian […]
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Events around the world look grim: the war in Ukraine continues, the genocidal war in Gaza is escalating, and Trump is threatening to push the world economy into a recession that will harm workers. Since Trump’s January 20th inauguration, tariffs, mass layoffs, cuts to social programs, attacks on migrants and the fraying of democracy in […]
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Stand with Dockworkers Union vice-president fired for organizing a blockade against arms deliveries to and from Israel! Louise Strömbäck and Jonas Brännberg, The Dockworkers’ Union’s vice president Erik Helgeson has been fired from his job at Gothenburg Roro Terminals (GRT), after he was involved in organizing a blockade in February against arms deliveries to and […]
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by a member of Socialist Struggle Movement, Israel/Palestine The ceasefire was violated in a massacre planned and coordinated with the Trump administration. Returned abductees and their families are angry and anxious about the fate of the remaining abductees. Organize to fight against the renewal of the war of extermination. A widespread massacre in the Gaza […]
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Rebuild and escalate the global movement against genocidal war and imperialism. Netanyahu’s far-right government, with the full support of Trump, has broken the fragile ceasefire and resumed the Israeli military’s genocidal war on Gaza. In the early morning of Tuesday, 18 March, over 400 people were reported killed by massive bombing raids, many of them […]
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