Xi Jinping Strikes While Western Powers Are in Disarray The latest sweeping crackdown by the Chinese dictatorship (CCP) in Hong Kong effectively bans political opposition in the city. The fragile “democracy” that has existed in Hong Kong as an exception among Chinese cities is in every practical sense extinguished. 53 Hong Kong opposition activists and […]
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Keely Mullen is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Build a Movement to Defeat the Far Right First came the notification: “Pro Trump mob breaks into Capitol building.” Then, “Congressmen being told to hide beneath their chairs,” followed by, “They’ve shot into the chambers.” The storming of the Capitol shocked hundreds of millions […]
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Written by Socialist Alternative members (England, Wales & Scotland) in the National Education Union, Unite and UNISON. Trade Union Action Gets Results. We Need Real Opposition. The Tories’ plan to reopen schools was met with fierce opposition from scientists, politicians from all parties, and most importantly from the trade unions. After almost a year of […]
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Sonja Grusch is a member of Sozialistische LinksPartei (ISA in Austria). Plugging the holes is not enough, it’s time for a revolution in education The question of whether to keep schools open or to close schools is a heated and polarized debate. Governments have done little, or nothing for months to prepare for the second, […]
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Cedric Gerome and Per-Åke Westerlund are members of ISA’s International Executive Committee. Last year ISA, in its analyses, pointed out the new features of many mass movements – they lasted longer and rapidly became focused against governments with demands for real changes in society, despite being triggered by different events and even incidents. They were […]
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ISA is proud of the role WASP played in mobilising support for the strike by Clover workers in South Africa, including international solidarity from Socialist Struggle Movement in Israeli-Palestine, where the headquarters of the company are located. After nine weeks of strike action, Clover workers have come out victorious with a collective agreement between Clover […]
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Solidarity message from ISA to the Haft Tappeh sugar factory. Down with the corrupt factory owners & their allies in the Iranian regime To the colleagues and comrades from the Haft Tappeh sugar factory, ISA (International Socialist Alternative) expresses its solidarity with your heroic struggle against the corrupt factory owners and the allied repressive Iranian […]
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Arne Johansson is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden). Engels’ Struggle for a Dialectical Concept of Nature Seven of the world’s leading climate and so-called Earth System scientists warned last year that the world could be very close to tipping points and even “a cascade of tipping points” that mean that gradual global […]
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Eric Byl is a member of ISA’s International Executive. “Let us not, however, flatter ourselves overmuch on account of our human victories over nature. For each such victory nature takes its revenge on us.” F. Engel 1883 — Dialectics of Nature Many will have felt relieved at the successful development of a first generation of […]
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Why we must fight this anti-working class trade deal On 15 November the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) was launched by fifteen governments in the Asia-Pacific region. The clear intention of the negotiators was to launch a typically neoliberal trade agreement, which if fully implemented will reduce tariffs and non-tariff barriers between the ten members […]
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