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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This article is by ISA’s Iran working group. Pro-capitalist opposition are “united” — but offer no solution for women, workers, and the poor. On Friday, February 10, on the eve of the 44th anniversary of the establishment of the Islamic Republic, prominent Iranian opposition figures came together to present themselves as a sort of united […]
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Serge Jordan is a member of International Socialist Alternative. The full extent of the destruction caused by the earthquakes in Turkey, Syria and Kurdistan has killed over 15,000 people and already big business is looking for how to make profit from it. The scenes of the lives shattered by yesterday’s earthquakes in Turkey, Syria and […]
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Stéphane Delcros is a member of Linkse Socialistiche Partij / Parti Socialiste de Lutte (ISA in Belgium). FIFA and its allies are responsible — they must get out of our sport With horrible working conditions, wages and living conditions for migrant workers; but also a complete denial of rights for women, for LGBTQIA+ people — […]
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Written by ISA activists in Iran and abroad. It is crucial that workers in all different industries move into action in an organised way on the basis of a revolutionary program. In recent days, teachers have organized nationwide strikes, while the strike wave in the oil, petrochemical and other sectors has not really developed further […]
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Written by the Iran Solidarity Movement in Austria. This statement was decided on October 23 at a conference of over 60 people of the Iran Solidarity Movement in Vienna — a political initiative of ISA and ROSA activists in Austria. Since the brutal murder of Jina (Mahsa) Amini by the so-called morality police in Iran, […]
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As a contribution to the discussions about the way forward for the movement in Iran, ISA supporters have drafted a program of demands. The explosive events in Iran, affecting already Iraq and Afghanistan directly, are still gaining momentum. School students, especially girls are going onto the streets en-masse. Fear has disappeared as students at one […]
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This article is republished from the archives of ISA. Recent events in Iran have demonstrated once again the revolutionary energy of the Iranian masses, and particularly the working class. Articles written at the time by members of the CWI, since renamed as ISA, analyse the events of the revolution, and how Iran then ended up […]
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Nina Mo is a member of Sozialistische LinksPartei (ISA in Austria). The killing of a young Kurdish woman in Iran has triggered a massive wave of upheaval, protests and strikes, threatening the whole regime. With global instability for the ruling classes growing, the whole region might once again become the epicenter of revolution and counterrevolution. […]
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This is a joint statement by International Socialist Alternative and ROSA International. Build international socialist-feminist solidarity with the growing movement against gender based and state violence! The killing of Zhina (Mahsa) Amini, a young Kurdish woman, by the “morality police” in Iran provoked a new, bold and explosive movement from below, challenging the rule of […]
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