This article is republished from the archives of ISA. It is 20 years since the Bush and Blair governments launched the full-scale assault on Iraq, justified by the now discredited claim about the existence of Weapons of Mass destruction which led to an 8-year occupation and left the whole region in chaos. To mark the […]
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Tom Crean is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. The collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank last week has opened up a significant financial crisis for US capitalism which now appears to be spreading to Europe. It is too early to say whether this is the beginning of a more full-blown crisis that […]
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As the US-China inter-imperialist conflict escalates, Taiwan is its most dangerous flashpoint. A Taiwan war could be even more catastrophic than the war in Ukraine, drawing in the US, Japan, Australia, several NATO armies, and possibly India, against China. It has long been a tenet of China’s so-called Communist dictatorship (CCP) to “reunify” Taiwan with […]
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Kshama Sawant is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Originally published by the Nation Standing in the Seattle City Council chambers on February 21, an Indian-American tech worker named Naresh recalled the caste discrimination he has faced beginning at age 5 in India. His voice quivered with anger as he thought about the […]
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On 4 February the US air force shot down a Chinese high-altitude balloon that had passed over its territory and the “balloon crisis” became a fact. The Chinese government admitted the balloon belonged to it, saying it was a civilian weather balloon that had been blown off course and mistakenly entered US airspace. The Biden […]
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Report of the discussion on World Perspectives at ISA’s 2023 World Congress Climate disasters, raging inflation and the threat of a world recession. A brutal war in Ukraine and rising global tensions. Three years of COVID with health systems teetering on the breaking points. Political polarization and unstable governments. The ruling class looks to the […]
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Tom Crean is a member of ISA’s International Executive Committee. Russian Offensive Begins as Ukraine War Escalates One year on, not only is the war far from over, it is clearly escalating with the possibility of becoming a much wider conflict. The horrific war in Ukraine, which began nearly a year ago, is by far […]
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Adam N. Lee is a contributor to chinaworker.info. Book review: Danger Zone — The Coming Conflict with China by Hal Brands and Michael Beckley offers a very scary road map for US victory in the new imperialist Cold War. Brands and Beckley, specialists in geopolitical history, present their book Danger Zone as “a contrarian take” […]
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Keely Mullen is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Thousands of people in East Palestine, Ohio were told it was safe to return home after a Norfolk Southern train derailment left their town covered in a heavy toxic smoke and flames, and coated in highly flammable chemicals. But far from returning to the […]
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Rob Rooke is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. As it is nearly one year since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the devastation to families and individuals is hard to comprehend. More than eight million people who have been forced to leave their homes in Ukraine are now refugees. Close to 50,000 soldiers, […]
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