In the media industry, there’s an old saying: “if it bleeds, it leads.” Sometimes the blood is real and gory, sometimes it’s a metaphor where the story in question involves drama, suspense, conflict or death, and, of course, “human interest.” The story gets top billing — the lead news story. And often it will displace […]
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Steve Edwards is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Cedric Robinson’s book Black Marxism has influenced a wide layer of academics and activists. But as the review by Steve Edwards explains, the title is misleading. It is in reality an attack on Marxism. Robinson raises a number of arguments which are false and […]
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Serge Jordan is a member of International Socialist Alternative. Deadly fighting has raged into its third month between the Rapid Support Forces militia (RSF) and the Sudanese army. These battles have ravaged the country, with the capital Khartoum and the Darfur region in the West bearing the brunt of the violence. Numerous ceasefires have been […]
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The mutiny by Prigozhin and his Wagner mercenaries drew to sudden close yesterday (June 25) evening. This is a preliminary comment on the events. After 24 hours of dramatically rising tensions, Russian TV has announced that negotiations between Belarusian dictator Aleksander Lukashenko and the leader of the Wagner mercenaries Evgeniy Prigozhin had been successful. Prigozhin […]
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Paul Smith is a member of Alternatywa Socjalistyczna (ISA in Poland). Half a million protesters took to the streets on 4 June against the right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) government in what is claimed to be the biggest demonstration in Poland since the collapse of Stalinism in 1989. The march was called by Donald Tusk […]
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This is a statement of the Executive Committee of Socialist Alternative in the US. Fight The Right & The Billionaire Class In 2024 On June 5, activist and professor Cornel West declared an independent left challenge for the US presidency in 2024. His announcement has already drawn widespread media coverage and his campaign launch video […]
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Guizhou province’s distress signal opens new front in country’s debt meltdown. China’s economy suffered a disastrous 2022. Xi Jinping, months into his unprecedented third term as absolute ruler, is therefore desperate for an economic rebound to dispel the gloom that grips the Chinese and global capitalists and restore “confidence.” Earlier this year, global capitalism had […]
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Climate change is global. But that doesn’t mean that all parts of the world are affected equally. To be sure, over the years, Canada has had its fair share of climate incidents such as forest fires and floods in Western Canada, hurricanes in the East, summer heat waves across the South, and ice storms in […]
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Marcos Ariel is a member of Alternativa Socialista (ISA in Argentina). Political Glossary Frente de Izquierda y los Trabajadores — Unidad. (Left and Workers Front — Unity) Formed in 2011 as the electoral coalition of the four largest Trotskyist parties: the PTS, Partido Obrero, Izquierda Socialista and the MST (who joined in the 2019 elections). […]
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