David Sanz Villamil is a member of Sozialistische Alternative (ISA in Germany). At the end of the article is a letter Socialist Alternative Canada sent to the Canadian government. Feel free to use as a draft for your own letter of protest. On the evening of 8 September, police murdered Bogotá resident, Javier Ordoñez. A video of […]
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Bryan Koulouris is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. On September 12, Trump tweeted to urge supporters to vote twice (by mail and in person). At the same time, he is trying to undermine mail-in voting through lies, cuts to the Postal Service, and lawsuits against counting mail-in votes before election day. This […]
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Erin Brightwell is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. The death of Supreme Court Justice and liberal icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the latest blow to any sense of normalcy in this election year. Trump has moved rapidly to nominate Amy Coney Barrett to replace Ginsburg. If she is approved this will solidify […]
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Chris Gray is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. The below is the text of a leaflet Socialist Alternative members distributed at protests the night of the non-indictment in Breonna Taylor’s murder. Under intense pressure from the political establishment, a Kentucky Grand Jury failed to charge any of the cops for the murder […]
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This is a joint statement between Socialist Party Northern Ireland and Socialist Alternative in England, Wales and Scotland. Last year, politics was dominated by the constitutional crisis of Brexit. The seriousness of the Covid pandemic and the global economic crisis has meant that the Brexit process has very much taken a back seat since the […]
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Rob Jones is a member of Sotsialisticheskaya Alternativa (ISA in Russia). Over the weekend, protestors once again gathered in Minsk and other cities demanding that Lukashenko should go, following Saturday’s women’s march. In the lead up to the demonstrations rhetoric from the Lukashenko side was again stepped up, and if for several weeks the police […]
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Sonja Grusch is a member of Sozialistische LinksPartei (ISA in Austria). This article is based on an introductory speech at the ISA Virtual Marxist University in July 2020. The background to the discussion and to the period we are in is the deep structural crisis of capitalism, that is the world recession, triggered and accelerated […]
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Elliot Bartz is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. California Wildfires: A Socialist Perspective A thick pall of smoke covers the west coast from Mexico to Canada and is spreading across North America and far out into the Pacific Ocean, with serious health consequences for millions of people. The world is burning, with […]
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Kshama Sawant is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. The political establishment, big business and the right-wing are seeking revenge by attempting a recall campaign against Councilmember Kshama Sawant. While the recall petition was filed by an individual, it appears to be an attempt to overturn last year’s reelection victory. A court has […]
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Peter Delsing is a member of Linkse Socialistiche Partij / Parti Socialiste de Lutte (ISA in Belgium). Defence of democratic socialist planning a fundamental task for successful social transformation This article is based on an introductory speech given to a commission on “Marxist economics — How would a planned economy work?” at ISA’s Virtual Marxist University in […]
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