Looking behind the uneasy truce in the US-China trade war 100 minutes was all that was needed for the two “strongmen” heads of the world’s main superpowers to agree a one-year truce in their long-running trade war. The surprisingly brief and therefore light-on-substance meeting in South Korea between Presidents Trump and Xi nevertheless revealed a […]
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Respond to imperialist attacks and threats with workers’ mobilisation, international solidarity and the struggle for a genuine socialist alternative in Venezuela and throughout Latin America. Donald Trump’s second term has reignited some of the most aggressive and truculent elements of US imperialist policy towards Latin America. Speaking bluntly, US Secretary of War Peter Hegseth announced […]
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A consequence of the absence of revolutionary leadership and a party of the working masses Yet another African country, and another coup. A coup in Madagascar has led to the coming to power of the military, led by Col Michael Randrianirina, following three weeks of protest on the streets by working class youth against the […]
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On November 29 and 30, Your Party (YP) will hold its founding conference. The challenges that lie in front of this fledgling organisation are huge. But its tasks are urgent. The enemy is at the gate. Reform leads in the polls by a wide margin. Far-right racists are emboldened and on the streets. Starmer’s Labour, […]
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In Canada, 2025 is the year of the transit fare hike. Fares have gone up in Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver, and Victoria, with Edmonton and Calgary soon to follow. Many cities are also cracking down on fare evaders despite Human Rights Watch warning that such crackdowns disproportionately target poor and racialized people. Meanwhile transit service is […]
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Build Workers’ Resistance and a Socialist Alternative Argentina’s far-right President Javier Milei managed to secure an unexpected victory for his party, La Libertad Avanza (Liberty Advances) in midterm elections on Sunday, October 26, based on polarization and help from Trump. “He had a lot of help from us. I gave him a very strong endorsement,” […]
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With every tenth of a degree of additional warming, the probability of passing a tipping point increases. A major new review conducted by the scientific laboratory at Germany’s The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, in collaboration with researchers at the Stockholm Resilience Centre claims that ocean acidification has now exceeded critical thresholds for the […]
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Nepal, Indonesia, Morocco, Madagascar, Peru, Timor-Leste, and the Philippines – Gen Z rises up Corruption, unemployment, and inequality run rampant across the world. But Gen Z has had enough of capitalism’s crises and is fighting back. In Indonesia and Nepal, tens of thousands of young people kicked off revolts against gross displays of corruption, and […]
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The example of struggle in one country stimulates and influences movements in others In “a world with two predatory super powers” (Martin Wolf, FT 1 October), the key trends of this year have continued since our last World Perspectives update in May. There has been a certain consolidation of Trump’s regime, the genocide in Gaza […]
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“Since Israel’s hostages are no longer in Gaza, targets that the air force avoided during the war are now being bombed” Editorial in this week’s Offensiv, paper of Socialistiskt Alternativ (ISA in Sweden) Ten days after Trump celebrated his ‘peace plan,’ Israeli fighter jets carried out at least 20 attacks in various parts of Gaza. […]
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