Vincent Kolo is a contributor to chinaworker.info. The sharp escalation of conflict with Russia is inseparable from the US-China conflict. “One who is not acquainted with the designs of his neighbours should not enter into alliances with them.” These are the words of legendary military strategist Sun Tzu more than 2,000 years ago. Xi Jinping […]
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Manuel Salmerón Becerra is a member of Alternativa Socialista (ISA in Mexico). After a long cycle of right-wing regimes, the elections of Xiomara Castro in Honduras and Gabriel Boric in Chile at the end of 2021 appear to be consolidating a new generation of progressive governments in Latin America. The new leaders, both self-described socialists, […]
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Andy Moxley is a member of International Socialist Alternative. International Socialist Alternative condemns the bloody Russian invasion of Ukraine, which has already displaced millions and killed or wounded thousands, and demands the withdrawal of Russian troops immediately. This war is part of a wider conflict which was created by both Russian and Western imperialism (NATO) […]
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Capitalism’s overriding imperative is to extract wealth from the land and labour in order to enrich the elite. Workers struggle to survive or eke out a living as profits flow into the pockets of the wealthy. As capitalism replaced feudalism, the exploitation of both land and labour played out in countries around the world. As […]
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Geert Cool is a member of Linkse Socialistiche Partij / Parti Socialiste de Lutte (ISA in Belgium). War is the continuation of politics by other means. The contradictions of capitalism lead to war. They cannot be negotiated away. Nor do they disappear through further military escalation. Wars usually end in exhaustion, defeat and destruction, or […]
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The “freedom” convoy has come and gone. It has had a major politicizing impact on Canadian society as well as having repercussions internationally. Unfortunately, it has disoriented some on the left — some have claimed it to be a working-class uprising aimed at the ruling-class elites while others have denounced it as a manifestation of […]
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Phemelo Motseokae is a member of the Workers’ and Socialist Party (ISA in South Africa). Working class response needed The world is standing on its toes, watching in horror at the unfolding events in Ukraine. Over 2 million people have fled Ukraine to neighbouring countries like Poland, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and other surrounding countries. These […]
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A couple of days ago I asked my old friend Vladan, who taught me how to drive big rigs, about his thoughts on the so-called “truckers’ freedom convoy.” Vladan, who has been trucking long-distance for the last 25 years, answered with resignation in his voice. “What can I say? I waited at the Ambassador Bridge […]
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Danny Byrne is a member of International Socialist Alternative. War in Ukraine a “before / after” moment in world history Nearing two weeks into Russian imperialism’s bloody war on Ukraine, thousands already lie dead. Amid conflicting reports and figures which inevitably vary in wartime scenarios, on March 4, Reuters estimated a death toll of 10,000 […]
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Now that the convoy has been cleared from Ottawa’s streets, it is worth remembering when desperate workers tried to take their protest to the federal government in Ottawa in 1935. The “On to Ottawa Trek” saw unemployed men housed in military relief camps travel by rail from Vancouver, stopping at towns along the way gaining […]
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