In early 2020, COVID engulfed Canadians and the world in turmoil that has not ended. War in the Ukraine, convoy in Ottawa, inflation everywhere, and fear of a banking crisis and another recession. In June 2022, inflation was above 8 percent, the highest rate in over 40 years. It has declined to 5 percent, but […]
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For an International Socialist Alternative to Capitalist Perma-crisis The working class is back. Since May Day, 2022, there has been an important upturn in the activity of the multiracial, multi-gendered and multigenerational workers’ movement. It has been active in struggles across the world — shaking the regimes of tyrants, defending the most oppressed sections of […]
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Cristina is a member of ISA in Portugal. Education workers rise up against their precarity, bringing 150,000 onto the streets of Lisbon. New unions and methods of struggle appear and stir up the still waters of the established unions. The Decline of Public Education and the Challenges Workers Face Every Day Over the last five […]
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Chris Gray is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. How Amazon is Fighting Tooth-and-Nail to Stop Workers From Unionizing Its Biggest Air Hub To Amazon’s corporate suits at their headquarters in Seattle, the KCVG Air Hub in Northern Kentucky is often referred to as the “Death Star.” The massive $1.5 billion facility already […]
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Jackie Douglas is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). 125 years ago Eleanor Marx died. She was one of the earliest advocates for the ideas of socialist feminism and internationalism, while working as a trade union organiser with a focus on organising women workers in united struggle with men. Jackie Grunsell, Socialist […]
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On March 27, the trade unions launched a so-called “Megastreik”. Is this the beginning of a larger strike movement in Germany? Since 2015, there have not been many large strike movements in Germany. For years, socialists and left-wing trade unionists have been looking with envy to France and the UK, wishing for a similar strike […]
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This is the text of a leaflet issued by ISA in France. Set up strike committees in every workplace, every school, every district On March 23, France has been on strike with massive demonstrations across the country. According to the CGT trade union there are 700,000 on the streets of Paris alone. In Marseille there […]
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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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Danny Byrne is a member of ISA’s International Executive. Report from International Socialist Alternative’s World Congress — further reports to follow Between January 30 and February 5, over 100 delegates and visitors participated in International Socialist Alternative’s 13th World Congress. Participants hailed from over 30 countries, across all continents. Most delegates participated in person, gathering […]
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Tom Costello is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). What Now for the Workers’ Movement? The language of class war is the order of the day in Britain. As striking nurses have said on the picket lines: “Patients aren’t dying because we are striking. We are striking because patients are dying”, which […]
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