The June 27 Presidential debate ended, and an excruciatingly pregnant pause swallowed the country. What did we just watch? And what the hell is about to happen? After Joe Biden puttered off the debate stage and the national debrief began on every major network, the chorus of Democratic operatives and media pundits concluded in harmony: […]
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Keely Mullen is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Joe Biden and Donald Trump are neck and neck in a race no one asked them to run. Groceries are 30% more expensive than they were before COVID, while portion sizes shrink. The US is bankrolling the genocidal onslaught in Gaza to the tune […]
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Per Olsson is a member of Socialistiskt Alternativ (ISA in Sweden) The EU elections disaster of the ruling party, President Macron’s Renaissance Party, has led to the calling of new general elections in France, with the first round to be held on 30 June and the second round on 7 July. It is the EU […]
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Per-Åke Westerlund is a member of the ISA International Executive Following seven months of a Russian military offensive which has made limited advances, and almost 2.5 years of all-out war, the inter-imperialist character of the conflict in Ukraine is deepening, as is the risk of escalation. US and Western imperialism are reinforcing their commitments on […]
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India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, is taking every possible step to ensure he wins a third term in the general election, which runs from April 19 until June 1. Modi’s party, the BJP, is based on far-right Hindu chauvinism, Hindutva. Modi himself rose to prominence through the fascist inspired Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), which is […]
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We need a new party! British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, drenched in rain outside Number 10, announced the General Election for July 4. Everyone — Sunak included — knows he is finished. Recent polls have placed Labour on a poll lead of up to 25%. It is quite likely that, knowing his ratings could sink […]
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Capitalist East and West are both in decline Socialist magazine (ISA in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan) and our international organisation, ISA, differ with the analysis of most other left organizations who see world imperialist rivalries as largely “multipolar,” with the US in decline (yes, it is) and China rising (no, that is no longer […]
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The Israeli ‘War Cabinet’ unanimously decided to begin the first phase of the Israeli right-wing regime’s catastrophic invasion of Rafah, where the majority of the Palestinian population surviving in the inferno of the Gaza Strip are currently located. Shahar Ben Horin, Yasha Marmer, Socialist Struggle, Israel-Palestine The Israeli ‘War Cabinet’ unanimously decided to begin the […]
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On the night of Tuesday, April 30, hundreds of NYPD officers in full riot gear stormed Columbia University’s campus, home to the first of nearly 100 student protest encampments across the country in solidarity with the besieged people of Gaza. That morning, a group of protestors had initiated an occupation of Hamilton Hall, renamed it […]
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