Per-Åke Westerlund is a member of the ISA International Political Committee More than 1,000 people have reportedly been killed in armed fighting in Sweida city and region in southern Syria in the last week. Behind this is an attempt from the Damascus regime of al-Sharaa to increase its control of the country, a process closely […]
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Varun Belur is a member of Socialist Alternative US. On July 9, 2025, the Indian labor movement fired a warning shot against the Modi government’s onslaught of privatization and austerity. 250 million workers across the country halted entire swathes of the economy in an all-India general strike. Key sectors like mining, transport and construction were […]
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Dakota Castro-Jarrett is a member of Socialist Alternative US It’s been five years since the largest protest movement in US history—the George Floyd uprising. Sparked by the horrific murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers, millions of workers and youth marched out onto their streets demanding an end to racist policing and systemic racism. […]
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On June 28, 200,000 people took to the streets of Budapest in defiance of police orders not to gather. This was the date of Budapest Pride, an event which has taken place every year since 1995 and that Hungary’s far-right prime minister Viktor Orbán’s attempted to ban. Instead, the turnout at this years’ illegal Pride […]
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Workers’ Action Needed to End War and Imperialism Over the past year and 9 months, the people of Gaza have faced a war of extermination at the hands of the Israeli state, backed to the hilt by US and European imperialist powers, including Britain. This historic crime is the most defining example of the depravity […]
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The negotiations that have taken place since April, and earlier, have been characterized by mafia diplomacy. The Trump administration is becoming increasingly authoritarian and threatening—both at home and on the world stage. At the same time, support for Trump is falling and his new budget is unpopular. A majority believe that it will make things […]
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Zarah Sultana MP and Jeremy Corbyn have announced they are launching a new party! Over the past few months, the call for a new left party has become deafening. It is clear this is an idea whose time has come, with a surprise announcement from Zarah Sultana that she and Jeremy Corbyn will be launching […]
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This was the introduction to a discussion at ISA’s International Committee on June 26. Of course, Donald Trump’s presidency still dominates world perspectives. He is a symbol of capitalism in the 2020s and even more so the second half of the 2020s, as we approach another tumultuous ‘30s’. His reactionary ideas and repression are also […]
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In a dramatic upset, democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani has won the Democratic Party New York mayoral primary in a blowout, forcing his main rival, former NY governor Andrew Cuomo, to concede. The results of the first round of ranked choice voting, which was expected to favor Cuomo, showed Mamdani leading by eight points. Zohran’s victory […]
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Violet Forrie and Ray Goerke Youth have always been on the forefront of struggles for social change. Less burdened by the sting of past defeats, they look forward and see the world as it could be. On the horizon of today’s world is war and genocide, climate disasters, rising poverty and inequality, and emboldened far-right […]
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