Geert Cool is a member of Linkse Socialistiche Partij / Parti Socialiste de Lutte (ISA in Belgium). General strikes show potential to defeat coup. Mass movement must start organising society More than a month after the military coup led by Min Aung Hlaing, the struggle between the people and the military of Myanmar continues. Strikes […]
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James Clement is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). Genpatsu Iranai, Saikado Hantai! — We Don’t Need Nuclear Power, Oppose the Restarting of the Plants! That’s the call raised by many Japanese workers and youth following the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster 10 years ago on March 11. Ten years ago this month […]
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Tom Crean is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Biden Gets Ready to Wage A Global “Democracy Offensive” The conflict between a rising Chinese state capitalism and waning US capitalism has emerged as the defining global conflict of our time. Under Trump, the US imposed massive tariffs on China, banned the technology company […]
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Vincent Kolo is a contributor to chinaworker.info. China’s “twin sessions” or Lianghui, the annual gatherings of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and the National People’s Congress (NPC), got underway in Beijing on Thursday 4 March. Neither body has any real power. They are merely decorative adornments for the dictatorial regime of the so-called Communist […]
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Kshama Sawant is a Seattle City Councilmember and a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. The reemergence of a socialist movement in the United States, and rapid growth of organizations like Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and Socialist Alternative (SA), is of enormous historical importance. This is not only because Marxism is beginning to […]
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Young Indian climate activist Disha Ravi was arrested by the police at her home in Bangalore on 13 February. She was transferred to a cell in the capital Delhi. The reason for the arrest was her alleged involvement in a solidarity appeal by Greta Thunberg and others for the ongoing farmers’ protest in India. The […]
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For the third time in a bit more than five years, last Sunday (14/02) we have had elections in Catalonia. They were called after the Spanish state removed, yet again, the elected president of the Generalitat [Catalan regional government] as part of its persecution of the pro-independence movement. This relentless repression undermines even the limited […]
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So far, the year 2021 has brought no relief from the ills of 2020. Rather, the problems have worsened. The second wave of the pandemic is more intense than the first, with the average number of deaths again exceeding a thousand a day, while government policy leads to the collapse of health care and delays […]
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Erdogan’s appointment of a rector by decree at Istanbul’s Boğaziçi University has sparked resistance from students. The regime cracked down on the students with detentions and arrests. There were solidarity actions with the protests, which have been fueled by the general discontent towards the regime. The student protests continue in various forms. In Turkey, universities […]
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24 February: Protest and Stay-Away against the bosses’ budget! Build for continued mass action! The Workers and Socialist Party (WASP) supports South African Federation of Trade Union’s call for a National Stay-Away on February 24, when finance minister Mboweni is set to deliver another dose of brutal austerity in his budget speech. It’s #TimeToFightBack — as […]
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