Cristina is a member of ISA in Portugal. Education workers rise up against their precarity, bringing 150,000 onto the streets of Lisbon. New unions and methods of struggle appear and stir up the still waters of the established unions. The Decline of Public Education and the Challenges Workers Face Every Day Over the last five […]
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Chris Gray is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. How Amazon is Fighting Tooth-and-Nail to Stop Workers From Unionizing Its Biggest Air Hub To Amazon’s corporate suits at their headquarters in Seattle, the KCVG Air Hub in Northern Kentucky is often referred to as the “Death Star.” The massive $1.5 billion facility already […]
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Serge Jordan is a member of International Socialist Alternative. Since the early morning of Saturday April 15, the chiefs of the Sudanese armed forces and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia have been waging open warfare with each other. The people of Sudan are caught in the crossfire of a fratricidal battle for power between […]
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Per-Åke Westerlund is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden). The expected Ukrainian spring offensive against Russian occupation forces is getting closer. Preparations have been underway since November. Since last autumn, tens of thousands of soldiers have died in World War I style fighting, especially around the city of Bakhmut. Russian forces have captured […]
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Keishia Taylor and Eddie McCabe are members of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). The tech sector is in turmoil — facing its worst crisis since the dot-com bubble burst in the late 1990s. Stock prices are fluctuating wildly, profits are being squeezed, and hundreds of thousands of workers have been laid off. Tech companies […]
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On March 27, the trade unions launched a so-called “Megastreik”. Is this the beginning of a larger strike movement in Germany? Since 2015, there have not been many large strike movements in Germany. For years, socialists and left-wing trade unionists have been looking with envy to France and the UK, wishing for a similar strike […]
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Shahar Ben Horin and Yasha Marmer are members of Socialist Struggle Movement (ISA in Israel-Palestine). Since the first week of January, Israeli capitalism has been gripped by an escalating historic political crisis, involving an unprecedented mass movement against the “judicial coup,” along with a mobilization of the ruling class against the government. An “illegal” general […]
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Elin Gauffin is a member of ISA’s International Women’s Bureau. “Our Resistance is Not Made of Sand” There is hope in the youthful socialist feminism around the world, which, in conjunction with the workers’ struggle, is sowing the seeds of a new society. The first international ROSA conference Women Life Freedom took place on 18 […]
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This is the text of a leaflet issued by ISA in France. Set up strike committees in every workplace, every school, every district On March 23, France has been on strike with massive demonstrations across the country. According to the CGT trade union there are 700,000 on the streets of Paris alone. In Marseille there […]
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This article is republished from the archives of ISA. It is 20 years since the Bush and Blair governments launched the full-scale assault on Iraq, justified by the now discredited claim about the existence of Weapons of Mass destruction which led to an 8-year occupation and left the whole region in chaos. To mark the […]
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