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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Resist National Guard with Working-Class Power Update, June 9: Trump has ordered 700 Marines into LA. Dozens of fully armed federal agents poured out of unmarked SUVs in Los Angeles’ Fashion District on the afternoon of Friday, June 6. They quickly entered Ambiance Apparel, a clothing wholesaler, and sealed off the street with yellow tape. […]
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End the siege, occupation and capitalism! International Socialist Alternative condemns with the greatest indignation Israel’s war crimes against the people of Gaza and now also against Madleen — the Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s ship. On the ship at the time of writing is Greta Thunberg who, together with eleven other human rights activists, including EU parliamentarian […]
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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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In 2014 a tailings pond collapsed in BC at the Mount Polley mine, spilling 25 billion litres of toxic sludge that obliterated a watershed and contaminated Quesnel Lake — a source of drinking water, a Fraser River tributary and home to salmon and trout. This stands as one of Canada’s worst ecological mining disasters. The […]
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‘Liberation Day’ nightmare is scaled back for 90 days but what comes next? China and the US have de-escalated their trade war at least for the short term. Talks between the two sides on 10–11 May in Geneva produced a 90-day pause until 10 August from astronomical triple-digit tariffs. Both sides agreed to a 115-percentage […]
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At an historic Conference of Resistance in Huddersfield on 10 May, leading figures from across Britain’s left came together to launch the People’s Alliance for Change and Equality (PACE) — a new movement bringing together community campaigns, trade unionists and social movements in Kirklees to build a working-class socialist political alternative. In addition, the conference […]
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