2022 has only started and already mass protests have forced the resignation of a government. Protests against price rises which started on January 1 in Mangystau, West Kazakhstan rapidly spread across the country with demonstrations now reported in Zhanaozen, Aktau, Aktobe, Taraz, Chimkent, Karaganda, Uralsk and the capital Astana, now renamed Nur-Sultan. Overnight, following a […]
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Manus Lenihan is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). A comet is about to wipe out all life on Earth — this was the basic idea of not one, but two Hollywood movies released in 1998. Deep Impact was considered more ‘realistic’ than Armageddon, but both were fantasies of the 1990s, back […]
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Nina Mo is a member of Sozialistische LinksPartei (ISA in Austria). The Iranian regime is in an unstable situation, they fear a new wave of generalized protests which is why they have increased repression in the last months. On 23 December, a national day of action, tens of thousands of teachers and retired teachers — […]
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Socialist Alternative recently examined the idea that Doug Ford had become the friend of labour after his government increased the minimum wage and proposed that delivery workers should be allowed to use washrooms at locations they deliver to and that workers should have the right to “disconnect from work” (not answer the phone, reply to […]
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Defund the Coastal GasLink Pipeline! On a cold grey December 21, sixty people rallied outside the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) branch on 1st Avenue and Commercial Drive in Vancouver. All of Canada’s major banks invest heavily in the oil and gas sector; RBC leads the pack in pushing climate change. It owns 8 percent […]
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Danny Byrne is a member of ISA’s International Executive. From beginning to end, 2021 was a year of perfect storm for world capitalism. This rotten and decadent system has rarely, if ever before, faced such deep simultaneous crises on so many fronts. It has never been more over-ripe for replacement, and the 2020s are only […]
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No to Corporate Profiteering Socialist Alternative Canada joins organizations across Canada and the US in calling for the big banks to divest from the Coastal GasLink (CGL) pipeline. Supporters and allies of the Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs have called for the December 20th Week of Action to #DefundCoastalGasLink. In 2020, 27 banks from around the world […]
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André Ferrari is a member of Liberdade, Socialismo e Revolução (CWI in Brazil). Gabriel Boric, of the “Apruebo Dignidad” (Approve Dignity) coalition has defeated the far-right candidate Jose Antonio Kast in the second round of the Chilean elections. Boric obtained 55.8% of the votes, almost one million more than Kast. This reversed the situation of […]
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Serge Jordan is a member of International Socialist Alternative. The social foundations of the regime of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Turkey are starting to crack. The elements of economic, social and political crisis that had been building up before Covid-19 have been heightened by the pandemic, bringing the […]
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Bryan Koulouris and Calvin Priest are members of Socialist Alternative in the US. For the fourth time, Socialist Alternative leader and Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant has won an election, this time while facing off against a racist, right-wing recall backed by big business. This victory is a vindication for a class-struggle approach to elected […]
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