Tom Costello is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). First, the Queen dies. Then a ‘mini-budget’ pushes the British economy to the brink of collapse. Then, just after the Tories come within an inch of reinstalling Boris Johnson as Prime Minister, back comes Rishi Sunak to the front again. Four people have […]
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Vilma Álvarez and Fernando Lacerda are members of ISA in Chile. Understanding the result of the September 4 plebiscite is crucial for the entire working class in Chile and for evaluating the perspectives for struggle. On September 4, more than 15 million Chileans voted in the plebiscite on the approval of a new Constitution. However, […]
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Eric Jenkins is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. The United Nations is currently debating whether to send a non-UN military force to “bring stability” to Haiti. Ariel Henry, prime minister of Haiti, has begged the UN to send a “specialized” task force to eliminate gangs. The United States and Mexico are the […]
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Vincent Kolo is a contributor to chinaworker.info. At the Communist Party’s 20th Congress dictator Xi Jinping made a clean sweep of the party-state’s top organs including the once powerful Standing Committee, but does the purge translate into greater strength or stability? It was never in doubt that at October’s five-yearly CCP Congress Xi Jinping would be […]
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Capitalism Does Not Lead to Democracy The end of the neoliberal era was recently recognized by Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland. Her speech on October 11, at the Brookings Institution in Washington, outlined a vision, what some are calling the “Freeland Doctrine,” stridently calling out China and Russia as geopolitical enemies of Western capitalism. […]
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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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Mobilize the working class to ensure Lula’s inauguration and win conquests and rights! Bolsonaro was defeated in the Brazilian presidential elections. This represents a victory for the workers and all poor and oppressed people. The victory of Lula, the candidate of the Workers Party (PT) and the “Brazil of Hope” Coalition, was by a small […]
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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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Philip Chmel is a member of Linkse Socialistiche Partij / Parti Socialiste de Lutte (ISA in Belgium). Expropriate the Energy Capitalists and Climate Killers Escalating the strike is the best answer of the working class to company blackmail and the government’s threat to force striking refinery workers back to work. The climate movement needs to […]
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