Jo Yan is a member of Socialist Action (ISA in Hong Kong). Government uses new Covid-19 outbreak as pretext to cancel Legco elections The passage of the draconian Hong Kong National Security Law means the counter-revolutionary suppression by the Chinese dictatorship (CCP) has officially arrived, following the ebb of the mass revolt against police violence […]
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Rob Jones is a member of Sotsialisticheskaya Alternativa (ISA in Russia). Sotsialisticheskaya Alternativa on picket in Kyiv The August presidential election was clearly fraudulent. Now Belarusian workers and youth need a socialist alternative to organise opposition. In Minsk, Brest, Grodno and a dozen other cities thousands have come out onto the streets and in many […]
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Yassine Laabadi is a member of Tayaar al-`Amael al-Qa`aedi (ISA in Tunisia). The huge explosion that occurred yesterday evening in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, in the heart of the commercial port, has shocked many people the world over. It resulted in a large number of victims. Extensive solidarity was displayed on social media from various […]
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Steve Edwards is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. In a victory for mass protests in downtown Portland and in defense of democratic rights, the federal government has agreed to “phase out” all Customs and Border Protection and ICE officers from the city starting Thursday, according to Oregon Governor Kate Brown. Similarly, Seattle […]
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Geert Cool is a member of Linkse Socialistiche Partij / Parti Socialiste de Lutte (ISA in Belgium). India is not just a country. It is a continent with over 1.3 billion inhabitants. It is a testing area for a rightwing nationalist government under Narendra Modi. The failure of the rightwing BJP-government to bring social progress […]
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Danny Byrne is a member of ISA’s International Executive. Socialists from 37 countries attended the largest ever international gathering of International Socialist Alternative (formerly the CWI) between 18 and 25 July The first ever ISA Virtual Marxist University was an incredible success. It was full of vibrancy and enthusiasm, and at the same time, was […]
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Nina Mo is a member of Sozialistische LinksPartei (ISA in Austria). The statement by former Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC) commander Alireza Alavi-Tabar recently that, “if the current situation continues, people will rise up and the government will face a revolution or collapse which we should deter at all costs,” demonstrates how the Iranian ruling […]
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This article was first published in 2015 in the Greek magazine Marxist Thought. It is now published in English for the first time. In March, China’s ornamental “parliament” the National People’s Congress (NPC) held its annual session for ten days in Beijing. Rather than real debates and deliberations, the NPC and its twin chamber the […]
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The German playwright, Bertolt Brecht wrote in the 1930s that it is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up one. If Brecht were alive today, he might want to revise the statement by substituting pharmaceutical company for bank. Using a measure called Return on Invested Capital (ROIC), research shows that […]
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Logan Swan is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. The Tax Amazon movement and Seattle’s working class won a historic victory on Monday, July 6. Following a three year struggle against the richest man in the world – Jeff Bezos – and his political establishment, we’ve won a tax on big business in […]
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