Anna Barnett is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Bright signs of a growing world organization Over 1,500 International Socialist Alternative (ISA, of which Socialist Alternative Canada is part) members and supporters from 39 countries attended the second ever Virtual Marxist University (VMU) last weekend. The event focused on political education, with dozens […]
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Mohammed Nawaz Tahir is an ISA supporter in India. Escalate Joint Workers’ and Farmers’ Protests! Every Indian child grows up singing and learning the slogan ‘Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan’ at school. It means: ‘long live the soldier, long live the farmer’. At the moment these two groups, that are said to form the backbone of […]
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Rebecca Green is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. This isn’t the first time that Joe Biden has entered the White House during an economic catastrophe. It’s not his first time being sworn in while millions of Americans faced unemployment, eviction, foreclosure, and hunger. But this time is worse. On top of the […]
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Qiu Qing is a member of Socialist Action (ISA in Hong Kong). Qiu Qing, Socialist Action Regardless of subsequent developments, mass demonstrations in Thailand have forever changed the country’s political landscape. At the time of writing, Thailand has undergone months of magnificent protests. The government implemented extensive repression and censorship. Not only were voices criticizing […]
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Conor Payne is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). The Billionaires Own the Casino The price of shares for GameStop went up 700% in the past week due to what people have called a “bloodbath” with small investors, organised through a subgroup on Reddit, going against a Wall Street hedge fund’s prediction […]
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Grace Fors is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Drastic Action Needed to Contain COVID As Joe Biden takes office, the state-by-state heat map of COVID transmission is a sea of red. The sheer depth of the crisis is prompting him to propose bold measures on the issue of the pandemic. No less of […]
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Mass protests have again rocked Tunisia in recent weeks with at least a thousand arrested. Ten years since the Tunisian revolution broke out, the Tunisian people have once again declared their rebellion against the reality of poverty, injustice and marginalization that they still live under. Despite the revolution having succeeded in uprooting the symbols of […]
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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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