Rebecca Green is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. In a historic election, Kshama Sawant, Seattle’s socialist city councilmember and member of Socialist Alternative secured her seat on city council for a third term in office. Kshama Sawant has redefined what it means to be an elected official in Seattle and in the […]
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This document was agreed unanimously at 4th congress of the CWI China/Hong Kong/Taiwan section held in December 2019. China is moving into a period of revolutionary shocks and upheavals. This is shown by the unprecedented mass movement in Hong Kong, in which there are revolutionary features, alongside less developed features and a lagging behind of […]
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Connor Rosoman is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). The United Nations’ climate talks in Madrid have ended in a ‘compromise’ agreement. Whilst deadly wildfires and temperatures of 50°C hit Australia, world leaders have been locked in a stalemate, squabbling over targets. These talks were greeted by hundreds of thousands of protesters, […]
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This article by a trade union shop-steward in a major pharmaceutical company was first published in Lutte Socialiste/De Linkse Socialist, monthly paper of PSL/LSP – the CWI in Belgium. In recent weeks, a number of scandals connected to the pharmaceutical sector have broken out. Firstly, over the very high treatment costs for a sick baby, […]
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Per-Åke Westerlund is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden). 2019 marks a definite political turning point globally. Particularly in the last months, we have seen mass struggles and general strikes around the world with revolutionary characteristics. This is a mass explosion, a result of accumulated anger and discontent against those in power, their […]
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Mass struggle must maximize the effect of these historic election results – make workers’ struggle the core and a turn to mainland masses The District Council elections held on Sunday 24 November were a huge victory for the anti-authoritarian protest movement which began in June. Without the mass protests, which have raged continuously for almost […]
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André Ferrari is a member of Liberdade, Socialismo e Revolução (CWI in Brazil). Three decades after the cynical announcements of the “end of history” from the ideologues of big capital, drunk with the fall of the Berlin wall, we are living through a dramatic acceleration of the historical period. From Sudan and Algeria to Hong […]
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This statement was sent by Socialist Alternative Canada to Prime Minister Trudeau and Foreign Minister Champagne. Under threats of violence from sections of the military and right-wing paramilitary thugs, President Evo Morales, Vice President Álvaro García-Linera, the leaders of the Bolivia Senate and Chamber of Deputies, as well as a number of government ministers were […]
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Dikang is a member of Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong). Workers urgently need to organise to resist the repression. Build for a real general strike! Carrie Lam’s Hong Kong government has dramatically escalated the level of police violence against the pro-democracy protest movement. This escalation, obvious since the start of November, has clearly been […]
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Sarah Mo is a member of Sozialistische LinksPartei (CWI in Austria). After the Iranian regime announced an increase in petrol prices of between 50 and 300% and the simultaneous rationing of fuel at midnight on 15 November, masses of people came out onto the streets spontaneously in several cities. Since then, the protests have escalated […]
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