Per-Åke Westerlund is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden). Christmas Eve, 24 December, marked 10 months since Putin’s Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine. For the people of Ukraine, it has meant hell on earth, currently a dark, cold winter with constant missile attacks. There is no sign that the fighting is nearing […]
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Vincent Kolo is a contributor to chinaworker.info. Sudden chaotic exit from hardline pandemic controls leaves cities grappling with explosive COVID surge In response to a wave of anti-government protests in late November the Chinese dictatorship (CCP) has pivoted abruptly from its deeply unpopular Zero COVID regime. But for the Chinese masses this is a case […]
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Mauro Espinola is a member of Alternativa Socialista (ISA in Mexico). Yesterday, after attempting to dissolve Congress and decreeing a government of exception, the president of Peru, Pedro Castillo, was removed from office. In this way, the Peruvian oligarchy, using Castillo’s parliamentary maneuvers as an excuse, is once again trying to derail the government elected […]
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Philip Chmel is a member of Linkse Socialistiche Partij / Parti Socialiste de Lutte (ISA in Belgium). How to Fight Back to Win At the COP27 climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt, the world’s ruling elites showed once again that they are absolutely incapable of protecting humanity and this planet from the climate catastrophe […]
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Kshama Sawant is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. A socialist cannot be a strike breaker. This needs to be the end of any pretense by DSA that the “Squad” is socialist, and should result in their expulsion from the organization. Failing that, the Squad’s betrayal of the working class becomes DSA’s betrayal. […]
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Li Yong and Vincent Kolo are contributors to chinaworker.info. Most significant protests since the 1989 Democracy Movement. At the time of writing police are massing in Chinese cities in an effort to stamp out the recent protest wave. Protests continue at universities. The coming weekend could see new street protests in cities across the country. […]
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The defeat of Bolsonaro at the polls and the election of Lula opens a new scenario for the class struggle in Brazil. The Partido Socialismo e Liberdade (Socialism and freedom party or PSOL) now has to decide whether to return to its original project of building an independent left alternative or to capitulate to the […]
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For almost 50 days, workers at 7 refineries across the country have led a strike that has shaken both the oil giants TotalEnergies and ExxonMobil, as well as the Macron government. The powerful strike movement, which was beginning to spill over into other sectors, carried the potential for a major struggle to obtain a pay-rise […]
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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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Calvin Priest is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Forecasts of a midterm “red wave” for the Republican Party failed to land on Tuesday, and instead a divided outcome was driven by growing levels of polarization in U.S. politics. Republicans failed to win either house of Congress outright on election night, and a […]
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