‘Phase one’ trade deal doesn’t end the US-China trade war

Vincent Kolo is a contributor to chinaworker.info. 22 January 2020 Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info Confrontation between the two biggest powers set to escalate The ‘phase one’ trade agreement signed by the US and China on 15 January does not mark the end of their almost two-year trade war. Even as a truce this one is only partial, […]

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Socialist Alternative Magazine #14

Climate Justice and Jobs Instability Rising Ontario Struggle Needed Where is Canada’s Women’s Movement? Hypocrisy to Indigenous Peoples No War on Iran 2019: A Year of Struggles Housing Victory … more from Canada and the World If you would like to order copy(ies) contact us at [email protected]

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Australia: Climate inaction and budget cuts fuel devastating bushfires

Jeremy Trott is a member of Socialist Action Australia. Australia is in the grip of an extreme bushfire crisis. Record-breaking heat waves and months of drought have created the conditions for massive blazes across the country.  The scale of the fires is unprecedented, affecting every state on the continent. They are the largest bushfires ever […]

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Book Review: The Logistics Industry and the Case for Socialism

Kele Cable and Eli Fox are members of Socialist Alternative in the US.  People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations Are Laying the Foundation for Socialism By Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski Verso Books, 2019 Among the most common arguments conservatives hurl at socialism is that planned economies always fail. Typically capitalists argue […]

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Capitalist rivalry, trade wars & Globalisation Today

Cillian Gillespie is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). The last year-and-a-half has seen a steady escalation of a trade war between the world’s two major capitalist powers, the United States and China. This dispute takes place against the background of the world economy undergoing a period of what has been described […]

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Auto Workers Strike GM – Limited Walk Back of Tier System Won

Steve Edwards is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. On September 16, 49,000 UAW members walked off the job at all 55 GM manufacturing plants and parts centers in the U.S., in what became the longest national auto strike in half a century. The determination shown by auto-workers on this strike was exemplary. […]

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Understanding Britain’s Brexit crisis

Claire Laker-Mansfield is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). Britain’s ongoing Brexit crisis has entered a new and spectacularly explosive phase. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government is in a state of chaos. His attempts to regain control, including via the dissolution of parliament, have so-far failed. Johnson’s first week in parliament as […]

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Trade war: Will the US-China ‘truce’ hold?

Although China and the US reached a temporary trade agreement in Washington on October 11, this does not mark a cessation of the conflict between the two imperialist powers which has raged for 16 months. The deal reached, which postpones proposed US tariff increases to 30%, in return for China making bigger purchases of some […]

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France 1981-84: from hope to the ‘austerity turn’

Boris is a member of Linkse Socialistiche Partij / Parti Socialiste de Lutte (ISA in Belgium). Failure of the Mitterand government May 10, 1981. In Paris, 200,000 people gathered at the Bastille, shouting for joy. Scenes of jubilation burst out in all the cities across France. François Mitterrand had just won the second round of […]

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US: 50,000 GM Workers on Strike

Steve Edwards is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US.  The strike of 50,000 United Auto Workers (UAW) members which began Sunday at midnight at all 55 GM plants in the US has the potential to mark a new stage in the revival of working class action. Teachers, hotel workers, and others made 2018 […]

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