Kshama Sawant has led many successful struggles of working people against big business in the US, including the first $15 minimum wage in a large North American city and a Tax on Amazon to fund building public housing. She has won three elections to Seattle City Council and defeated the big-business backed, racist right-wing recall […]
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Walter Chambers is a member of International Socialist Alternative. The war in Ukraine has turned into a war of brutal attrition. Only workers’ solidarity can end it. The Kremlin was hoping for a double celebration on May 9: to mark the Soviet Union’s victory in WW2, and the jubilant return of troops after a short […]
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Serge Jordan is a member of International Socialist Alternative. After weeks of mass protests, strikes, and general strikes across Sri Lanka, which included earlier this week an elementary explosion of popular fury at the country’s ruling elite following a violent attack perpetrated by armed pro-regime thugs against the “GotaGoGama” occupation in central Colombo, President Gotabhaya […]
Continue ReadingFreedom for Dzhavid Mamedov and all anti-war activists! For International Solidarity of the Working Class to Stop the War! Posters in different languages, a model leaflet and resolution can be accessed by clicking on images in the slider below. We will posts posters and leaflets in additional language as they become available. Tverskoi Court in […]
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Li Yong is a contributor to chinaworker.info. Lockdown in Shanghai These interviews were conducted on April 11 when Shanghai had been in lockdown for almost two weeks. Since then the city of 28 million people has endured a further four weeks of full-scale lockdown with no end in sight. The current outbreak of the Omicron […]
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Tom Crean is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Article after article in the mainstream corporate media in recent weeks has stated that the war in Ukraine has accelerated a radical realignment in the world economy that is termed “deglobalization.” Martin Wolf, the chief economics editor of the Financial Times stated recently that […]
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Serge Jordan is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. Responding to a joint appeal issued by over 2,000 trade unions, a countrywide ‘Hartal’ (total strike) brought Sri Lanka to a stop on Friday, May 6. The hartal, the largest in 69 years, was a resounding success. The Railway Joint Trade Union Alliance […]
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Speaker Kshama Sawant Sunday, May 15, 4:30 Pacific time, 7:30 Eastern time Register here: bit.ly/KshamaSocialism Socialist Alternative Seattle Councillor Kshama Sawant has led many victories for working class people including the first $15 minimum wage in a large North American city and a Tax on Amazon to fund building public housing. This will be Sawant’s […]
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Greyson Van Arsdale is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. The evening of May 3, thousands of protesters gathered in cities across the country to protest the leaked draft decision by the Supreme Court which would strike down Roe v. Wade. The Court is set to rule early this summer, giving the movement […]
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Serge Jordan is a member of International Socialist Alternative. Gota has to go, and the whole system with him! Global capitalism is in the midst of growing economic throes and working class resistance. Sri Lanka has been violently propelled to the forefront of both. The words of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the Communist […]
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