Solidarity protests in support of democracy struggle in China and Hong Kong HSBC is the focus of protests internationally because it cooperates with the Chinese dictatorship’s crackdown against democratic rights in Hong Kong. On May 31, forty seven Hong Kong democracy activists, opposition politicians and trade unionists will stand trial for subversion under the national security law. […]
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Release ‘Long Hair’ and political prisoners in Hong Kong On Monday May 31 “Long Hair” Leung Kwok-hung and 46 other defendants will stand trial for “inciting subversion of state power”. This is the second hearing in the biggest trial to date under the national security law imposed last year by Xi Jinping’s CCP dictatorship. If […]
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Dan O’Rourke is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). Cost cutting and the potential for disaster … Workers at the Panama Canal in Central America have come under brutal attack from local police during a protest for safer working conditions. The workers are demanding their employer, the Panama Canal Authority (ACP), hire […]
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A rebellion of Palestinian youth, and expressions of solidarity between Jews and Arabs workers, in parallel with clashes, riots, far-right arson attacks and repression of protests. The man-made gates of hell were opened in a new phase of military escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the worst since 2014. Socialist Struggle Movement (ISA in Israel and […]
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Uri Bar-Shalom Agmon and Yasha Marmer are members of Socialist Struggle Movement (ISA in Israel-Palestine). What’s Really Happening in East Jerusalem & Sheikh Jarrah? Police broke into al-Aqsa mosque after the Ramadan prayer on Friday night. They fired stun grenades and rubber-coated metal bullets on hundreds of Palestinians. Simultaneously, the protests in Sheikh Jarrah, an […]
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Hannah Swoboda is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Stand with Kshama SawantOn April 1, in a major development in the recall effort against Seattle City Councilmember and Socialist Alternative member Kshama Sawant, the Washington Supreme Court sided with the right-wing recall campaign. The court’s decision to uphold the recall charges functions as […]
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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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