The Coalition for Progressive Electors (COPE) – Vancouver’s political party for renters and workers – hosted a Rally for Rent Control, on October 2. Incumbent city councillor Jean Swanson (COPE) shared a platform with Seattle’s Socialist Alternative city councillor, Kshama Sawant and other COPE candidates. Jean offered “huge thanks” to “Kshama for the solidarity she’s […]
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Second Round — Vote for Lula and Mobilize the Working Class The majority of Brazilians rejected Bolsonaro in the first round of the presidential election. Bolsonaro trailed Lula of the Workers Party (PT) by a difference of 6.18 million votes. Despite this, the genocidal president has shown once again that he is not a lame […]
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This article is republished from the archives of ISA. Recent events in Iran have demonstrated once again the revolutionary energy of the Iranian masses, and particularly the working class. Articles written at the time by members of the CWI, since renamed as ISA, analyse the events of the revolution, and how Iran then ended up […]
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Per-Åke Westerlund is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden). The offensive by Ukrainian forces continues and the crisis of Putin’s war deepens. On Friday 30 September, Moscow declared that the regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson are “forever” part of Russia, as a result of the fake “referenda”. But already on the […]
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Nina Mo is a member of Sozialistische LinksPartei (ISA in Austria). The killing of a young Kurdish woman in Iran has triggered a massive wave of upheaval, protests and strikes, threatening the whole regime. With global instability for the ruling classes growing, the whole region might once again become the epicenter of revolution and counterrevolution. […]
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Kshama Sawant, a member of Socialist Alternative in Seattle, has an incredible record that shows what can be achieved as a socialist city councillor with a class-struggle approach to politics. Using the city council seat as a platform to lead mass campaigns against the rich establishment powers in Seattle and Washington State, Kshama and Socialist […]
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Written by ISA members in Italy. A coming storm These elections have reaffirmed the deep political crisis in Italy. With the lowest turnout in republican history, the right wing is confirmed as the largest parliamentary force and Fratelli d’Italia as the largest national party. We must prepare for the most right-wing government since the fall […]
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“‘It’s going to bankrupt health care’: Spending on temp agency nurses up more than 550% since pre-pandemic at one Toronto hospital network,” ran the headline in the Toronto Star. “Ontario isn’t ruling out privatization in health care,” was a headline on CBC News. Temp Agency Nursing is Privatization Given the shortage of 15,000 nurses since […]
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This is a joint statement by International Socialist Alternative and ROSA International. Our bodies, our lives, our right to decide Lawyers being brought in before treating ectopic pregnancies. Cancer patients denied life saving treatment because they are pregnant. Sexual assault victims in the emergency room denied the morning after pill. Within weeks of the overturning […]
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Written by BC Public Sector workers. Two years ago, public sector workers, unable to work from home, were praised by the BC government as heroic, frontline, essential workers ensuring services, health care and K-12 education in the face of a deadly pandemic. Today these same workers are being offered contracts that will see their real […]
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