Answer violence with Solidarity – Need for Urgent Action. More arrests in Moscow. On International Day against Violence Against Women, once again Moscow police have acted in a completely unjustified manner. In St Petersburg a picket was held successfully and peacefully. In Moscow the authorities refused permission for an action, fearing it would be as […]
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This is a statement by ISA’ International Women’s Bureau. November 25 (25N) is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, founded in 1981 after the murder of the Mirabal sisters by the military dictatorship of Trujillo in the Dominican Republic. For us socialist feminists, the fight for an end to violence against […]
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Nof Azulay is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). It was recently announced by a news release that Pfizer and BioNTech have developed a vaccine for Covid-19 that showed it was 95% effective in preventing the disease. Moderna, another pharmaceutical company, announced it had developed a vaccine using a similar technology with 94.5% effectiveness. AstraZeneca […]
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Erin Brightwell is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. With Democratic Party hopes for a bigger majority in the House dashed by a combination of anti-Trump voters who went with Republicans down ticket and 71 million Trump voters, it didn’t take long for the fireworks in the Democratic House caucus to start going […]
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Hong Liuxing is a contributor to chinaworker.info. Students Protest Prison-Like Restrictions Across China In August, there was a partial relaxation of the strict lockdown rules for schools and universities in China. But many schools continued with strict exit controls and security guards blocking school exits, which gave rise to significant student protests in several regions. […]
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Josafat Arrieta and Christian Tello are members of Alternativa Socialista (ISA in Mexico). On 1 December, it will be two years since Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) took power. The overwhelming victory of the Movement for National Regeneration (Morena) on July 1, 2018 came as a result of years of growing misery for the majority […]
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Bia Lacombe is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Big business and the right wing are furious about the impact of socialist politics in Seattle and are going all-out to try to remove Councilmember Kshama Sawant from City Hall with a recall campaign. This recall effort to remove Kshama Sawant from office comes […]
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Emily Culver is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Tens of thousands of protestors have taken to the streets across Peru to protest the illegitimate impeachment of Peruvian President Martín Vizcarra. The coup comes after years of political turmoil. In the most recent presidential election in 2016, centrist Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (PPK) narrowly […]
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The ruling class of society keeps control through a mix of repression, ideology and material provisioning of the population it rules. Repression alone is expensive and, in the long run, ineffective to keep power. Rulers usually have to provide some material protection and provisioning of society, whether that is keeping the people of a city […]
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Manus Lenihan is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). The Jarkarta Method presents a bold counter-history of the Cold War, showing how this colossal violence played an essential role in shaping the world we live in today. The beautiful Indonesian island of Bali attracts visitors from all over the world. But most […]
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