Down with the Tsar — For a New 1917 Over 100 cities across nine time zones from Vladivostok in the Far East to Kaliningrad on the Baltic Coast, from Magadan and Murmansk through Yakutia, where the temperature was fifty degrees below zero, to sunny Sochi on the Black Sea and Sebastopol in Crimea, were shaken […]
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Massimo Amadori is a member of Resistenze Internazionali (ISA in Italy). Antonio Gramsci is certainly one of the most popular Marxist thinkers, and is considered one of the greatest intellectuals of the twentieth century. In recent years, his ideas have been particularly studied and appreciated by the Latin American left, as they look to the […]
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Michael Munanga is a member of Linkse Socialistiche Partij / Parti Socialiste de Lutte (ISA in Belgium). Patrice Lumumba occupies a very important place in popular consciousness in Congo. Even Mobutu, who took part in his assassination, was forced to make him a “national hero” in 1966. His legacy still resounds throughout the country, Africa […]
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Ruth Coppinger and Laura Fitzgerald are members of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). But Church and State Are Guilty! For years, survivors and adoptees of so-called “mother and baby homes” have sought justice. Governments promised they’d get it. Sadly, all they’ve received from official Ireland this week is yet another slap in the face. […]
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Geert Cool is a member of Linkse Socialistiche Partij / Parti Socialiste de Lutte (ISA in Belgium). India’s Supreme Court has decided to suspend the BJP government’s contested agriculture laws. This is an expression of the enormous social pressure to reverse the liberalisation of agriculture. The farmers however are not fooled: suspension is not enough, […]
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Sarah Wrack is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). Four and a half years after the vote to leave the EU, a trade deal was finally agreed at the eleventh hour before Boris Johnson’s deadline of December 31, 2020. Parliament had just days to look at the deal before ratifying it, making […]
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Sebastian Rave is a member of Sozialistische Alternative (ISA in Germany). Faded Spring? Like dominoes, the regimes fell in a huge revolutionary wave in 2011: Ben Ali in Tunisia, Mubarak in Egypt, Gaddafi in Libya, Saleh in Yemen. The occupations of squares in Egypt inspired the Occupy movement in the USA and the Indignados in […]
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This article was written by the Editorial Board of Socialist Alternative in the US. The far right threat isn’t going away after their attempted coup on January 6. Immediately, they are planning another series of armed rallies and possibly more attempts to overrun legislative buildings starting this Saturday, January 16, and culminating in a potential […]
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Marcos Ariel is a member of Alternativa Socialista (ISA in Argentina). A Triumph for the ‘Green Tide’ Movement In a historic day, the morning of December 30 and after 12 hours of debate, the archaic Argentine Senate approved the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy Act (IVE) by 38 votes in against 29. When the result of […]
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Tom Crean is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. A devastating pandemic has triggered a deep economic downturn which comes only a decade after the Great Recession that already exposed capitalism’s rot. Institutions have lost credibility and political polarization is at unprecedented levels. Beyond this, the clock is ticking towards irreversible climate change. […]
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