Workers and Socialist Party (WASP) reaffirms our solidarity with the 5,000 Clover workers on strike since November 22, 2021. We fully support the workers’ demands and are calling for the escalation of demonstrations to kick off this year of struggle, both by the workers as well as those forces who stand in solidarity with them […]
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2022 has only started and already mass protests have forced the resignation of a government. Protests against price rises which started on January 1 in Mangystau, West Kazakhstan rapidly spread across the country with demonstrations now reported in Zhanaozen, Aktau, Aktobe, Taraz, Chimkent, Karaganda, Uralsk and the capital Astana, now renamed Nur-Sultan. Overnight, following a […]
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Nina Mo is a member of Sozialistische LinksPartei (ISA in Austria). The Iranian regime is in an unstable situation, they fear a new wave of generalized protests which is why they have increased repression in the last months. On 23 December, a national day of action, tens of thousands of teachers and retired teachers — […]
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Danny Byrne is a member of ISA’s International Executive. From beginning to end, 2021 was a year of perfect storm for world capitalism. This rotten and decadent system has rarely, if ever before, faced such deep simultaneous crises on so many fronts. It has never been more over-ripe for replacement, and the 2020s are only […]
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André Ferrari is a member of Liberdade, Socialismo e Revolução (CWI in Brazil). Gabriel Boric, of the “Apruebo Dignidad” (Approve Dignity) coalition has defeated the far-right candidate Jose Antonio Kast in the second round of the Chilean elections. Boric obtained 55.8% of the votes, almost one million more than Kast. This reversed the situation of […]
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Serge Jordan is a member of International Socialist Alternative. The social foundations of the regime of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Turkey are starting to crack. The elements of economic, social and political crisis that had been building up before Covid-19 have been heightened by the pandemic, bringing the […]
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Bryan Koulouris and Calvin Priest are members of Socialist Alternative in the US. For the fourth time, Socialist Alternative leader and Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant has won an election, this time while facing off against a racist, right-wing recall backed by big business. This victory is a vindication for a class-struggle approach to elected […]
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James McCabe is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). Amazon has announced it will establish a Data Centre in Calgary, news much welcomed by politicians as a job creator and sign of a tech future for Calgary. No reality check of the huge use of electricity or water, both issues in Calgary. […]
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Kshama Sawant is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. “The Wealthy Took Their Best Shot at Us, and We Beat Them. Again.” On the day that the vote count in the Seattle recall election showed the majority of votes against the recall, Kshama Sawant spoke at a Solidarity Campaign Press Conference. This is […]
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After nearly a year long protest by farmers, their largest mobilization in India in over half a century, the right-wing authoritarian government of Modi has finally caved and given in to the demands of the farmers This momentous achievement shows the power of struggle and the effect that a large scale movement can have. At […]
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