US Auto Workers on Strike — Escalate To Win!

Em Smith, Socialist Alternative, US Tens of thousands of workers at Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis have been preparing for weeks to go on strike to fight for their demands, including a 40 percent raise. They have organized practice pickets, attended rallies, and tuned into UAW President Shawn Fain’s video livestreams to get the latest […]

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Woman Life Freedom — The Struggle Continues!

Remember Jina Amini Text of leaflet for Demo in Vienna, September 16 One year has passed since the brutal killing of Jina Amini in the hands of the ‘morality police’ that sparked one of the most radical and far-reaching protest waves in Iran’s history against violence, oppression & dictatorship. One year has passed since the […]

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China in the Grip of “Japanification”

Property collapse deepens while concerns rise over slow and limited government intervention. China’s economic crisis entered a new more dangerous phase in August. Despite a tightening government clampdown on negative news, the overall picture is darkening week by week as China’s biggest property company Country Garden teeters on the brink of default and signs of […]

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Socialist Alternative Magazine #26

Workers Rising! Youth demand Socialism Alberta Toronto Rent Strikes Manitoba Election Fighting Caste Oppression Life of a Student What Makes Me Angry Women’s Safety Chile 1970 – 73, Revolution and Reaction US: Workers Strike Back Capitalism’s New Cold War BC Solidarity 1983: A Near Revolution Housing Emergency Capitalism’s Highway to Hell … and more from […]

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The Chilean Road to Socialism: A Warning for the Working Class

Cormac Kelly is a member of Socialist Alternative, England, Wales and Scotland On 11 September 1973, fifty years ago, General Augusto Pinochet launched his brutal military coup, drowning in blood the revolutionary movement that had been inspired by the government of Salvador Allende. For Marxists the study of history is not a passive diversion or […]

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Actors Join Writers On Strike Against Greedy Studios

David Rhoades is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. On July 13, SAG-AFTRA (Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists), a union of 160,000 film and TV performers, joined the Writers Guild of America (WGA) on strike for the first time in 63 years.  For the writers, who’ve endured […]

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Coup in Niger

Ory is a member of Militant, Côte d’Ivoire. Oppose the Military Intervention — Let the Nigerien People Decide The coups in Mali and Burkina Faso already demonstrate that the new military regimes have no program nor even a genuine intention to address the deep-seated problems engendered by the private appropriation and looting of these countries’ […]

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Rise in Violence on the Front Lines of Environmental Struggle

Pedro Meade and Ana Vitoria are members of Liberdade, Socialismo e Revolução (ISA in Brazil). Armed groups, criminal organizations and even state forces use lethal violence to silence any resistance to environmental destruction. As we are seeing, climate crises are intensifying. Wildfires of unprecedented proportions are raging in Canada, there are historic droughts in Argentina, […]

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How Strong is Xi’s Alliance with Russia?

Vincent Kolo is a contributor to chinaworker.info. After the short-lived Wagner revolt in Russia on June 24, Xi Jinping’s regime reaffirmed its support for Putin, describing Russia as China’s “comprehensive strategic partner of coordination for the new era.” But Xi’s regime is clearly shaken by these events. For almost 24 hours, as Yevgeny Prigozhin’s mercenary […]

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Sinéad O’ Connor, Shuhada’ Sadaqat (1966–2023)

Aislinn O’Keeffe is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). There is no combination of words that could contain the spirit of Sinéad O’Connor, known in her personal life as Shuhada’ Sadaqat. Even as the press is rushing to churn out adjectives to describe her, they fall flat in her shadow. Yet still […]

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