Sonja Grusch is a member of Sozialistische LinksPartei (ISA in Austria). Plugging the holes is not enough, it’s time for a revolution in education The question of whether to keep schools open or to close schools is a heated and polarized debate. Governments have done little, or nothing for months to prepare for the second, […]
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Keishia Taylor is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). Book details: The Return of Nature, John Bellamy Foster, Monthly Review Press, 2020 John Bellamy Foster’s ground-breaking Marx’s Ecology in 2000 demonstrated that Marxism, from the beginning, dealt with ecological questions. Its long-awaited sequel, The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology, developed these […]
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ISA is proud of the role WASP played in mobilising support for the strike by Clover workers in South Africa, including international solidarity from Socialist Struggle Movement in Israeli-Palestine, where the headquarters of the company are located. After nine weeks of strike action, Clover workers have come out victorious with a collective agreement between Clover […]
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Solidarity message from ISA to the Haft Tappeh sugar factory. Down with the corrupt factory owners & their allies in the Iranian regime To the colleagues and comrades from the Haft Tappeh sugar factory, ISA (International Socialist Alternative) expresses its solidarity with your heroic struggle against the corrupt factory owners and the allied repressive Iranian […]
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Arne Johansson is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden). Engels’ Struggle for a Dialectical Concept of Nature Seven of the world’s leading climate and so-called Earth System scientists warned last year that the world could be very close to tipping points and even “a cascade of tipping points” that mean that gradual global […]
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On December 14, the first COVID vaccinations were given in Canada. This gave hope that there may be an end in sight, in this dark winter. Politicians were keen to highlight the vaccine, less enthusiastic in addressing the current reality. COVID is largely out of control across much of Canada. November and the first half […]
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Eric Byl is a member of ISA’s International Executive. “Let us not, however, flatter ourselves overmuch on account of our human victories over nature. For each such victory nature takes its revenge on us.” F. Engel 1883 — Dialectics of Nature Many will have felt relieved at the successful development of a first generation of […]
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Why we must fight this anti-working class trade deal On 15 November the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) was launched by fifteen governments in the Asia-Pacific region. The clear intention of the negotiators was to launch a typically neoliberal trade agreement, which if fully implemented will reduce tariffs and non-tariff barriers between the ten members […]
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Fight for our health! Not for private profits! Unable to stem the second wave of COVID-19, the Legault government forced most of Québec back into lockdown by September’s end. Since then, the number of cases has continued to grow. While public health is claimed to be a priority, the maintenance of private profits is instead […]
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The Canadian economy is in a deep recession, but the stock market and housing prices are soaring. How is this possible? Millions of Canadians lost their jobs in the spring, and the drop in GDP was worse than the 2008/09 economic crisis. Yet somehow housing prices across the country are way up, completely contradicting common […]
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