In a dramatic upset, democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani has won the Democratic Party New York mayoral primary in a blowout, forcing his main rival, former NY governor Andrew Cuomo, to concede. The results of the first round of ranked choice voting, which was expected to favor Cuomo, showed Mamdani leading by eight points. Zohran’s victory […]
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Violet Forrie and Ray Goerke Youth have always been on the forefront of struggles for social change. Less burdened by the sting of past defeats, they look forward and see the world as it could be. On the horizon of today’s world is war and genocide, climate disasters, rising poverty and inequality, and emboldened far-right […]
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In China today the bourgeoisie and the CCP are inseparable. The following is a speech given by ISA member Zhou Yi to a meeting of Chinese Marxists in May 2025. ISA and chinaworker.info describe China and the system led by the so-called Communist Party (CCP) regime as ‘authoritarian state capitalism’. It is different from Western […]
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On June 18, Vancouver dockworkers and their allies commemorated the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Ballantyne Pier (1935). This so-called battle was actually a vicious attack by police, who were armed with machine guns and tear gas, on unarmed workers who were trying to provide for their families in the midst of the Great […]
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The reality is big business and the capitalist class do not care about the environment. They only have one commitment: the pursuit of profit above all else. COP30, the 30th instalment of the United Nations’ climate change conference, is scheduled to take place in Brazil later this year. In a stunning demonstration of the capitalist […]
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A coordinated refusal to transport any arms destined for Israel, where they are used to continue the genocidal onslaught, could bring the Israeli war machine to a halt. Workers at docks in Italy and France stopped shipments of weapons to Israel last week. The 19 pallets of components were destined for Haifa where they would […]
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Events around the world look grim: the war in Ukraine continues, the genocidal war in Gaza is escalating, and Trump is threatening to push the world economy into a recession that will harm workers. Since Trump’s January 20th inauguration, tariffs, mass layoffs, cuts to social programs, attacks on migrants and the fraying of democracy in […]
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New left party needed to halt Reform’s march to power It is now more than a year since Rishi Sunak stood rain-soaked outside 10 Downing Street to announce a general election. In the time that has passed since, the political landscape of Britain has been transformed almost beyond recognition. The final nails in the coffin […]
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Donald Trump has called “tariff” his favourite word, showing that he must have a limited vocabulary. When he imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum imports in 2018, he claimed it was protecting American industry. In reality, these tariffs were a nationalist smokescreen for a deeper capitalist crisis — one where working people, not corporate elites, […]
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New Left Party Needed Now! The only answer from centrist politicians like Keir Starmer to rising support for the figures like Farage is to politically mimic them. “We must close the book on a squalid chapter for our politics, our economy and our country. Britain risks becoming an island of strangers”. This chilling anti-migrant rhetoric, […]
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