Workers across the world have been inspired by the determined resistance in Myanmar to the military takeover and widespread repression that has followed. The working class has played a central role. International Socialist Alternative discussed the situation with Khaing Zar, a leader of the textile workers union and national treasurer of the Confederation of Trade […]
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For years, governments have been shovelling rhetoric about commitments to reduce carbon emissions. The most famous is the international commitment to net zero carbon emissions by 2050. Yet, emissions have increased by 60% since the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was signed in 1992, at the Rio Earth Summit. The Kyoto Protocol and […]
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Nina Mo is a member of Sozialistische LinksPartei (ISA in Austria). Friday’s presidential election in Iran saw a historic low turnout of under 50%. As candidate of the clerical elite representing Khamenei and the hardline Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Ebrahim Raisi’s presidential term will be a crucial time for both the regime and the Iranian working class as there […]
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Marie O’Toole is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. June is LGBTQ Pride month. What started as a celebration of the struggle for LGBTQ rights, Pride has increasingly been taken over by corporate interests. As we honor Pride month this year, transgender people across the country are under attack by a record-breaking wave […]
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Marcos Ariel is a member of Alternativa Socialista (ISA in Argentina). No Concessions to Capital! Build Mass Mobilisation for Radical Change The deep economic crisis, the great social polarization and the radicalization of the poorest sectors in Peru were expressed in the presidential elections with the triumph of the rural teacher and candidate for the […]
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The city of Surrey is the second largest in British Columbia, with nearly 600,000 mostly working-class residents. It is home to families from Canada and dozens of other countries and is host to some of the largest multi-ethnic celebrations in Canada, including the massive annual Vaisakhi parade of up to half a million people, a […]
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Grace Fors is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Global Vaccine Inequality Spells Disaster The U.S. is approaching “back to normal.” Millions are vaccinated, the CDC nixed its mask guidelines, and states everywhere are eagerly lifting restrictions in time for summer. But globally, COVID-19 is exploding. Entire regions are wracked with new outbreaks. […]
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George Martin Fell Brown is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Video games can be light entertainment or serious art, but they’re also big business. 2013’s Grand Theft Auto V currently stands as the most financially successful entertainment product in history. In recent years, the video game industry has come under increasing scrutiny […]
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Tom Costello is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). Global Resistance on the Agenda Recently, the British pro-capitalist journal the Financial Times conducted a survey of more than 1,700 young people, to find out the main concerns and problems facing both Millennials and Generation Zers today. The results were stark but not surprising. When asked […]
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Michael O’Brien is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). It can take the passage of time, years in fact, to have a sense of a particular strike’s place in history. Among trade unionists, socialists, activists, and sometimes the wider working class, disputes such as the six-month-long strike of An Post workers in […]
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