Kate Jones is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). “We thought the oceans so vast that nothing we could do would have any effect on them. Now we know this was wrong”. (David Attenborough, Blue Planet II, BBC, 2017) Millions of viewers were enthralled by Blue Planet II, and many […]
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Danny Byrne is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. A Spanish capitalist crisis In last year’s uprising in Catalonia, bitterness at national oppression merged with anti-austerity anger – above all, for hundreds of thousands of workers and young people. The Spanish state’s brutal response only poured fuel on the flames. Reviewing a […]
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Patrick Ayers is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. The March for Our Lives was one of the single biggest days of protest in U.S. history. With hundreds of thousands in D.C., and tens of thousands in major cities across the country, there were a total of 800 protests around the country and […]
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From mourning to struggle On 14 March, Marielle Franco, a veteran member of PSOL in Rio de Janeiro, was barbarically executed in the city centre. Anderson Pedro Gomes, the driver of her car, was also killed in the attack. Police investigation identified 9 gun shots in the back window of the car, showing that the […]
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The resistance to Kinder Morgan’s pipeline to Vancouver is building. At the end of January British Columbia’s NDP government announced restrictions on any increase in diluted bitumen (dilbit) allowed to pass through BC’s coastal waters. In early March, in the biggest gathering so far against the pipeline, 10,000 people joined as First Nations stepped up […]
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Charles Cannon is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. “Until they sign it, shut it down!” chanted West Virginia teachers from all 55 counties across the state at a demonstration in the capitol building on the eighth day of an illegal strike. The teachers, three quarters of them women, defied insults hurled at […]
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Dikang is a contributor to chinaworker.info. As widely feared the Chinese dictatorship has begun blocking pro-democracy candidates from standing in upcoming by-elections in Hong Kong to fill four of the seats left empty after the ousting of six opposition legislators last year. The move is the latest installment in a creeping coup against the mass […]
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Brett Forester is a status Anishinabe member of the Kettle and Stony Point First Nation. By Brett Forester is a status Anishinabe member of the Kettle and Stony Point First Nation living Ottawa. We thank him for allowing Socialist Alternative to publish this article, which first appeared on thebrassmonk.com. Across Canada people took to the […]
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Historic feminist strike, now continue the struggle! The feminist strike on 8 March was unprecedented. Never in the history of the class struggle in the Spanish state have such a deep and massive mobilisation against the oppression of working class women, against inequality and violence against women. Hundreds of marches took place from morning to […]
Continue ReadingErin Brightwell and Rob Darakjian are members of Socialist Alternative in the US. A new women’s movement is emerging in response to the election of the misogynist Donald Trump, starting with the 2017 women’s marches and now with the #MeToo campaign. The potential power of the #MeToo moment has so frightened the political class, the […]
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