Claire Laker-Mansfield is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). The votes cast on May’s super-Thursday elections are still being counted. But already the picture painted is one of an utter disaster for Starmer’s Labour. Labour heading to lose over 200 council seats and further losses in the Scottish parliament. Since the 2019 […]
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David Sanz Villamil is a member of Sozialistische Alternative (ISA in Germany). Resisting Regressive Tax Reform and the Right-Wing Government (with poem of solidarity by Pete Marlowe) On April 28 the Colombian masses took to the streets. Hundreds of thousands answered the call for a national strike despite the threat of the pandemic and the […]
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John Hird is a member of Socialismo Revolucionario (ISA in the Spanish State). In a very polarised election the right-wing People’s Party have won a clear victory at the expense of the centre right Ciudadanos party and former left party PSOE. The clear victory of the right-wing People’s Party (PP) in the Madrid regional elections […]
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Amy Ferguson is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Northern Ireland). Tragic Consequence of Missed Opportunity for Socialist Change May 3 is 100 years since Ireland was partitioned under the “Government of Ireland Act” to leave the largely Catholic Republic of Ireland as an independent state and Northern Ireland with its part Protestant, […]
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Vincent Kolo is a contributor to chinaworker.info. Joe Biden’s presidency, not yet 100 days old, has continued and intensified the anti-China policies of his predecessor Donald Trump. The president sums up his position in the slogan, “extreme competition.” Expectations in some quarters – including sections of the Chinese regime (CCP) – that the new Cold […]
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Mohammed Nawaz Tahir is an ISA supporter in India. Ordinary people are forced to run from door to door, hospital to hospital in search of basic amenities which should be provided at the earliest opportunity. This is because the economic and political establishment fail the majority of the population. Their policies push people over the […]
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International Socialist Alternative and Socialist Alternative Canada extends May Day greetings to all socialists, trade unionists and fighters against oppression and capitalism around the world. It was the Second Socialist International, which at its founding conference in 1889 decided to hold demonstrations the following year for an 8-hour working day. From the beginning, the demonstrations […]
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David Elliott is a member of ISA Australia. Note that the following article contains names of people who have died. Recently, hundreds protested around the country against the ongoing outrage of Indigenous deaths in custody. Rallies were held in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Alice Springs, and Lismore. The actions marked the 30th anniversary of the 1991 Royal […]
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Kshama Sawant is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Kshama Sawant Seattle Socialist City Councilmember and Socialist Alternative member Kshama Sawant introduced a resolution on April 26, that was carried 7 – 1 by the Seattle City Council demanding the Biden administration stop blocking the Intellectual Property waivers for the COVID-19 vaccines. Below […]
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Rebecca Green is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Ma’Khia Bryant, Adam Toledo, Daunte Wright: Chauvin Convicted, Movement Must Continue Just as the guilty verdict for Derek Chauvin was announced, Columbus police shot and killed another Black person, this time a sixteen-year-old girl named Ma’Khia Bryant. This was the second police shooting of […]
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