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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Capitalism in China today is based on the sweatshop exploitation of massive cheap labour, the backbone of which is the migrant workers forced from the countryside. The regime uses brutal repression against working class democratic rights, including banning the right to form independent unions and right to strike. ISA would describe the character of today’s […]
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Statement on World Perspectives by ISA’s International Political Committee The famous observation of Vladimir Lenin, that “there are decades when nothing happens and there are weeks when decades happen” could have been easily written with our epoch in mind. Although Lenin used it to describe revolutionary events, it is an equally good description of today’s […]
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In a result that would have been unthinkable just four months ago, the Liberal Party of Canada has won its fourth consecutive election, securing another minority government. Polling showed that the Conservative leader, Pierre Poilievre, was poised to win a historic victory. Instead, he lost the seat he has held since 2004. This demonstrates the […]
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May Day or 1 May is International Workers’ Day. It started when the working class rose up as a collective force and claimed a day to mark its struggles. Workers did so not to remind themselves to send out warm greetings of solidarity once a year, but in their own class interests. To test their […]
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The 1970 Earth Day provides us valuable lessons for the fight against climate change today, including how mass movements of ordinary people force change from below. The mass teach-ins—which involved millions from all sections of society—show the type of movement we need now. The world is on fire and Trump and the billionaires are taking […]
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