Conor Payne is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). The Billionaires Own the Casino The price of shares for GameStop went up 700% in the past week due to what people have called a “bloodbath” with small investors, organised through a subgroup on Reddit, going against a Wall Street hedge fund’s prediction […]
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Grace Fors is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Drastic Action Needed to Contain COVID As Joe Biden takes office, the state-by-state heat map of COVID transmission is a sea of red. The sheer depth of the crisis is prompting him to propose bold measures on the issue of the pandemic. No less of […]
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Jason Kenney and the United Conservative Party (UCP) are driving Alberta over a cliff, their attention locked on the rear-view mirror as they focus on an ideological commitment to big business and an especially nasty addiction to fossil fuels. They have consistently underestimated COVID-19 and acted too little, too late. They have devastated the province’s […]
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Mass protests have again rocked Tunisia in recent weeks with at least a thousand arrested. Ten years since the Tunisian revolution broke out, the Tunisian people have once again declared their rebellion against the reality of poverty, injustice and marginalization that they still live under. Despite the revolution having succeeded in uprooting the symbols of […]
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Down with the Tsar — For a New 1917 Over 100 cities across nine time zones from Vladivostok in the Far East to Kaliningrad on the Baltic Coast, from Magadan and Murmansk through Yakutia, where the temperature was fifty degrees below zero, to sunny Sochi on the Black Sea and Sebastopol in Crimea, were shaken […]
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Massimo Amadori is a member of Resistenze Internazionali (ISA in Italy). Antonio Gramsci is certainly one of the most popular Marxist thinkers, and is considered one of the greatest intellectuals of the twentieth century. In recent years, his ideas have been particularly studied and appreciated by the Latin American left, as they look to the […]
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Michael Munanga is a member of Linkse Socialistiche Partij / Parti Socialiste de Lutte (ISA in Belgium). Patrice Lumumba occupies a very important place in popular consciousness in Congo. Even Mobutu, who took part in his assassination, was forced to make him a “national hero” in 1966. His legacy still resounds throughout the country, Africa […]
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Ruth Coppinger and Laura Fitzgerald are members of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). But Church and State Are Guilty! For years, survivors and adoptees of so-called “mother and baby homes” have sought justice. Governments promised they’d get it. Sadly, all they’ve received from official Ireland this week is yet another slap in the face. […]
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Geert Cool is a member of Linkse Socialistiche Partij / Parti Socialiste de Lutte (ISA in Belgium). India’s Supreme Court has decided to suspend the BJP government’s contested agriculture laws. This is an expression of the enormous social pressure to reverse the liberalisation of agriculture. The farmers however are not fooled: suspension is not enough, […]
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Sarah Wrack is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). Four and a half years after the vote to leave the EU, a trade deal was finally agreed at the eleventh hour before Boris Johnson’s deadline of December 31, 2020. Parliament had just days to look at the deal before ratifying it, making […]
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