Per-Åke Westerlund is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden). The war that started last week in the region of Tigray, Ethiopia, between the national army and Tigray armed forces, is putting millions at risk of famine and displacement. Within a few days, dozens of soldiers have been killed and hundreds are wounded, although […]
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Tom Crean is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. What should a new party of the left based on the interests of working people look like? Working people in the U.S. are facing a crisis of massive proportions. Decades of neoliberal attacks on unions and the gains of working people have created the […]
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Drop the charges against Chai Xiaoming On 14 August, left activist Chai Xiaoming was tried secretly by the Intermediate Court in the eastern city of Nanjing on the charge of “inciting subversion of state power”. The verdict and sentence of the court have not been made public but the Nanjing Public Prosecutor’s Office submitted a […]
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The celebrations have begun. Trump has clearly lost, and he will be out of the White House early next year. A massive sigh of relief is being exhaled by tens of millions of people across the country and hundreds of millions across the world. Yet we should recognize that the pandemic, climate change, economic crisis, […]
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On October 2 we published an article on the waves of killings and the protests in Colombia. Socialist Alternative also wrote a letter to the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and we have only received an automatic reply (the letter is at the end of the October 2 article). Since then there have […]
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Bryan Koulouris is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Take Action to Stop Trump from Stealing the Election This election shows that the Democrats can’t decisively defeat the far right. Socialist Alternative thinks we need a new party based on the working class, which stands for seizing the wealth of the top corporations […]
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Tony Wilsdon is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. The events surrounding the 2000 election, while greatly misunderstood, still cast a huge shadow over the 2020 election. Until now, the 2000 election was known as one of the most contested in U.S. history. It was the first presidential election since 1888 where the […]
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Lester Rodriguez is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. UPDATE ON Nov 2: Since the publishing of this article, further attacks from conservatives and Republicans in Texas have further jeopardized hundreds of thousands of votes. Nearly 127,000 people voted early in Harris County (basically Houston), one of the largest counties in Texas, using a […]
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Time for a new Left Party to fight the Tories Condemn Corbyn’s suspension Organise now for socialist change, and to build a political voice that can be a real opposition to the Tories Jeremy Corbyn is not antisemitic. He has a lifelong history of fighting racism in all its forms. It is a disgrace that […]
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Max Toynbee is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). Review of The Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James (published 1938) Most schools teach pupils that the Atlantic slave trade went against European “enlightenment” principles of rationality, equality and democracy; a horror perpetrated against docile and simple Africans that was abolished by high minded powerful European […]
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