Elin Gauffin is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden). Victory For the Struggle Monday, June 21, 2021 became a historic day in Sweden. For the first time ever, a prime minister has been defeated, after the Riksdag voted in favour of no-confidence. It is the struggle from below against market rents that overthrew […]
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Workers’ Movement Must Organise for Struggle and Solidarity In June, the French departmental and regional elections were marked by a historic abstention: 68% of voters stayed away from the ballot box in the first round. In the 18–24 age group, this abstention even climbs to 87%! This is, of course, an illustration of the crisis […]
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Morena achieved the majority by obtaining, according to the Preliminary Electoral Results Program, between 34.9 and 35.5% of the votes for federal deputies according to INE’s quick count. However, they are set to lose between 50 and 63 seats compared to the previous election, in which it had 253 of the 500 seats in the […]
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Workers across the world have been inspired by the determined resistance in Myanmar to the military takeover and widespread repression that has followed. The working class has played a central role. International Socialist Alternative discussed the situation with Khaing Zar, a leader of the textile workers union and national treasurer of the Confederation of Trade […]
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Nina Mo is a member of Sozialistische LinksPartei (ISA in Austria). Friday’s presidential election in Iran saw a historic low turnout of under 50%. As candidate of the clerical elite representing Khamenei and the hardline Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Ebrahim Raisi’s presidential term will be a crucial time for both the regime and the Iranian working class as there […]
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Marie O’Toole is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. June is LGBTQ Pride month. What started as a celebration of the struggle for LGBTQ rights, Pride has increasingly been taken over by corporate interests. As we honor Pride month this year, transgender people across the country are under attack by a record-breaking wave […]
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Marcos Ariel is a member of Alternativa Socialista (ISA in Argentina). No Concessions to Capital! Build Mass Mobilisation for Radical Change The deep economic crisis, the great social polarization and the radicalization of the poorest sectors in Peru were expressed in the presidential elections with the triumph of the rural teacher and candidate for the […]
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Tom Costello is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). Global Resistance on the Agenda Recently, the British pro-capitalist journal the Financial Times conducted a survey of more than 1,700 young people, to find out the main concerns and problems facing both Millennials and Generation Zers today. The results were stark but not surprising. When asked […]
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Michael O’Brien is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). It can take the passage of time, years in fact, to have a sense of a particular strike’s place in history. Among trade unionists, socialists, activists, and sometimes the wider working class, disputes such as the six-month-long strike of An Post workers in […]
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Per-Åke Westerlund is a member of ISA’s International Executive. This is the second in a two-part article by Per-Åke Westerlund first published by Chinaworker.info looking at the rise of Chinese imperialism. The first part China’s state capitalist imperialism is here. As the imperialist conflict between the US and China has sharpened in recent years, some […]
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