The defeat of Bolsonaro at the polls and the election of Lula opens a new scenario for the class struggle in Brazil. The Partido Socialismo e Liberdade (Socialism and freedom party or PSOL) now has to decide whether to return to its original project of building an independent left alternative or to capitulate to the […]
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In early November, as BC’s southern interior got cold enough to be life threatening, a group of community service organizations operating shelters sent a joint letter to municipal officials, Interior Health, and BC Housing essentially withdrawing their services. The letter calls BC’s response to the homelessness crisis “an exercise in futility, at best” and went […]
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For almost 50 days, workers at 7 refineries across the country have led a strike that has shaken both the oil giants TotalEnergies and ExxonMobil, as well as the Macron government. The powerful strike movement, which was beginning to spill over into other sectors, carried the potential for a major struggle to obtain a pay-rise […]
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This year’s annual meeting on climate, COP27, is being held in Egypt, ruled by a brutal dictatorship. The world’s business and political leaders do not want to be disturbed, while the planet burns by the annoying inconvenience of protesters demanding a future for themselves, the future generations, and their homes. The deadly, and frightening, impacts […]
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Capitalism Does Not Lead to Democracy The end of the neoliberal era was recently recognized by Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland. Her speech on October 11, at the Brookings Institution in Washington, outlined a vision, what some are calling the “Freeland Doctrine,” stridently calling out China and Russia as geopolitical enemies of Western capitalism. […]
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Written by ISA activists in Iran and abroad. It is crucial that workers in all different industries move into action in an organised way on the basis of a revolutionary program. In recent days, teachers have organized nationwide strikes, while the strike wave in the oil, petrochemical and other sectors has not really developed further […]
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Written by the Iran Solidarity Movement in Austria. This statement was decided on October 23 at a conference of over 60 people of the Iran Solidarity Movement in Vienna — a political initiative of ISA and ROSA activists in Austria. Since the brutal murder of Jina (Mahsa) Amini by the so-called morality police in Iran, […]
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As a contribution to the discussions about the way forward for the movement in Iran, ISA supporters have drafted a program of demands. The explosive events in Iran, affecting already Iraq and Afghanistan directly, are still gaining momentum. School students, especially girls are going onto the streets en-masse. Fear has disappeared as students at one […]
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Philip Chmel is a member of Linkse Socialistiche Partij / Parti Socialiste de Lutte (ISA in Belgium). Expropriate the Energy Capitalists and Climate Killers Escalating the strike is the best answer of the working class to company blackmail and the government’s threat to force striking refinery workers back to work. The climate movement needs to […]
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This is a joint statement between Socialist Party Northern Ireland and Socialist Alternative in England, Wales and Scotland. Escalate workers’ action — For a general strike! Fight for a socialist alternative! Another Tory prime minister bites the dust. In scenes less like a slow-motion car crash and more like a high-speed multi-vehicle collision, Tory MPs […]
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