Also, read and share our International Socialist Feminist Call to Action here This year’s International Women’s Day has a very dark setting. We have a climate crisis to solve. We have hundreds of thousands of hungry little bellies to feed. But the world’s resources do not go to climate change and they do not go […]
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The forces of reaction undoubtedly felt boosted when Javier Milei won Argentina’s presidential elections last November. A self described “anarcho-capitalist,” the former TV personality promised to take a proverbial chainsaw to the state sector with a slew of shock privatisations and austerity measures. Yet 3 months into his presidency and Milei’s all out assault on […]
Continue ReadingJoin us Sunday March 10 for a Socialist Feminist Perspective on International Working Women’s Day Today we are confronted with the devastating reality of climate change, war and imperialism as well as the harsh, everyday reality of women’s lives: precarious work, unequal pay, gender-based violence, threats to trans-women and LGBTQ rights. Women, Life, Freedom was […]
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Step Up the Protests! Palestinians are trying to find shelter in Rafah, designated a safe zone by the Israeli army. Yet the deadly bombings have been stepped up and Prime Minister Netanyahu is insisting on a ground offensive which would have catastrophic consequences. It’s up to the masses of working people to build a socialist […]
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Kailyn Nicholson and Kshama Sawant are members of Socialist Alternative in the US. Aaron Bushnell’s death by self-immolation is an extreme expression of the desperation millions of working and young people in the United States and across the globe feel as the Israeli government’s brutal assault on Gaza nears the five-month mark. Despite a global […]
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The economy is tipping into a deflationary crisis with a worsening debt crunch, falling wages and prices, and increasing reliance of fraudulent economic data. The word ‘involution’ or neijuan describes ever increasing inputs that produce no improvements. Think of trying to run up a down escalator. This term has gained mass usage in China since […]
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Teddy Shibabaw is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. The intensity of destruction is both hard to fathom and yet made clear by brutal, hard facts and figures. At least 30,000 are dead, over 70% of them women and children, some eight thousand are missing and presumed dead under the rubble. 64,797 or […]
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March 8 has become a day where liberal feminists acknowledge women’s progress over the past few decades. They gather at celebratory breakfasts or dinners to acknowledge the achievements of women who have pushed past boundaries (legal, professional or social) and made significant differences in their communities. But for most ordinary women, this day goes unnoticed. […]
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Tom Crean is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. As we enter a new year, it is evident that on many fronts the situation facing the human race is dire. Of course, there are commentators who insist the opposite (we’ll refer to them again later). But most people know the trendlines are bad. […]
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