Jason Toynbee is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). The world changed twenty years ago. It’s rare that a single event like the 9/11 terrorist attack in the USA can have that much impact. But of course it wasn’t just an act of terror which altered the course of history. Rather it […]
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Serge Jordan is a member of International Socialist Alternative. Build the Fight for Socialist Change Just over ten years since the popular uprising forced Tunisian dictator Ben Ali from power, new convulsions are rocking the country. Now the President has dismissed the government and frozen Parliament for 30 days. Late on Sunday, 25 July, Tunisia’s […]
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Water shortages have led to nearly a week of desperate protests in Iran’s oil-rich Khuzestan province leaving at least ten dead. One thing is clear, the newly elected “death judge” will not have one calm minute. With a population of 5 million, Khuzestan can be called the “beating heart” of Iran, because it is one […]
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Written by an Iranian socialist. Iranian oil, gas and petrochemical workers from more than 60 facilities in ten provinces have been on strike since June 19. Unprecedented rise in prices in recent months and intolerable working conditions has been the cause of the largest strike in the Iranian energy sector under the Islamic Republic. The […]
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Nina Mo is a member of Sozialistische LinksPartei (ISA in Austria). Friday’s presidential election in Iran saw a historic low turnout of under 50%. As candidate of the clerical elite representing Khamenei and the hardline Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Ebrahim Raisi’s presidential term will be a crucial time for both the regime and the Iranian working class as there […]
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Fighting for international solidarity and a socialist solution The uprising of Palestinian youth on both sides of the ‘Green Line’ (pre-1967 border) in the West Bank and in Israel, the massacre in Gaza and solidarity demonstrations in Israel, have put the oppression of the Palestinians at the centre of international attention. This will not disappear […]
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A rebellion of Palestinian youth, and expressions of solidarity between Jews and Arabs workers, in parallel with clashes, riots, far-right arson attacks and repression of protests. The man-made gates of hell were opened in a new phase of military escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the worst since 2014. Socialist Struggle Movement (ISA in Israel and […]
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Uri Bar-Shalom Agmon and Yasha Marmer are members of Socialist Struggle Movement (ISA in Israel-Palestine). What’s Really Happening in East Jerusalem & Sheikh Jarrah? Police broke into al-Aqsa mosque after the Ramadan prayer on Friday night. They fired stun grenades and rubber-coated metal bullets on hundreds of Palestinians. Simultaneously, the protests in Sheikh Jarrah, an […]
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Anne Engelhardt is a member of Sozialistische Alternative (ISA in Germany). (Human) Crisis in Maritime Shipping Industry For six days the Ever Given, one of the biggest global container ships in the world, blocked the Suez Canal. Having navigated into a sand storm, it turned sideways and got stuck in the shallow waters of the […]
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Erdogan’s appointment of a rector by decree at Istanbul’s Boğaziçi University has sparked resistance from students. The regime cracked down on the students with detentions and arrests. There were solidarity actions with the protests, which have been fueled by the general discontent towards the regime. The student protests continue in various forms. In Turkey, universities […]
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