Phemelo Motseokae is a member of the Workers’ and Socialist Party (ISA in South Africa). Working class response needed The world is standing on its toes, watching in horror at the unfolding events in Ukraine. Over 2 million people have fled Ukraine to neighbouring countries like Poland, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and other surrounding countries. These […]
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Danny Byrne is a member of International Socialist Alternative. War in Ukraine a “before / after” moment in world history Nearing two weeks into Russian imperialism’s bloody war on Ukraine, thousands already lie dead. Amid conflicting reports and figures which inevitably vary in wartime scenarios, on March 4, Reuters estimated a death toll of 10,000 […]
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No to the war in Ukraine! Troops should return home. Build an anti-war movement in the workplaces and universities. This is the call being made by Socialisticheskaya Alternativa in Russia. It follows the attacks on Ukraine by Russian forces on February 24. Bu that evening spontaneous protests, mainly by young people, broke out in 58 […]
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Build a Mass Anti-War and Anti-Imperialist Movement Europe is staring down the barrel of a major armed conflict as the Kremlin launches major attacks on Ukraine ISA expresses its full solidarity with the people of Ukraine who already suffer exploitation, oppression, corruption and growing poverty conditions, and now face the horror of war and bloodshed. […]
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President Putin has now announced that Russia will recognise the independence of the two disputed regions in Ukraine — Donetsk and Luhansk. He has instructed Russian troops to act as “peacekeepers.” This marks another extremely dangerous stage in what could end up as the worst war seen in Europe since WW2. Warmongers have been whipping […]
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John Hird is a member of Alternativa Socialista (ISA in the Spanish State). The regional election results in Castilla and León are another clear warning to the left as the far-right VOX made the biggest gains for such a party in Europe since the start of the COVID19 pandemic. The results are stark. The Socialist […]
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Kshama Sawant is a Seattle City Councilmember and a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. This article was originally published with Jacobin. Starbucks workers in Buffalo, New York, voted in December to become the first recognized union at the coffee giant in the country. Inspired by the victory, workers have launched a national wave of organizing […]
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Quinn Angelou-Lysaker is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Debates have broken out in workplaces and school board meetings across the country as the Republican Party fights to ban Critical Race Theory (CRT) from the classroom. This debate is only one aspect of a culture war accelerated by the George Floyd rebellion in […]
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Pedro Meade is a member of Liberdade, Socialismo e Revolução (ISA in Brazil). As the 6-year alliance between left reformist parties Bloco de Esquerda (Left Bloc) BE and Partido Comunista Português (Portuguese Communist Party) PCP and the pro-capitalist PS was brought to an end, the snap general elections in Portugal of January 30 produced a […]
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