John Hird is a member of Socialismo Revolucionario (ISA in the Spanish State). The recent avalanche of articles reporting the pronouncements of the pillars of capitalist rule such as the IMF, World Bank and EU in the financial press regarding the economic and social consequences of the Covid-19 crisis, indicate we are at an important […]
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Rebecca Green is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Millions and millions of ordinary people are experiencing a tornado of escalating crises: from COVID-19, social isolation, unemployment and evictions, to the climate meltdown and food insecurity. It is no wonder people are struggling to cope. In August, the Center for Disease Control released […]
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Per-Åke Westerlund is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden). On Saturday, November 28, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, declared that his troops had captured Mekelle, capital of Tigray, and that the war was over. For the people in Tigray and the rest of Ethiopia, however, a period of deeper humanitarian crisis and armed […]
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Affordable Child Care Now! COVID-19, and the economic recession it triggered, has made it clear just how terrible the capitalist system is, particularly for working-class women and women-aligned folk. Women have been hit especially hard by the pandemic with the double-sucker punch of massive job losses and the ongoing lack of adequate childcare. There have […]
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Albert Kropf is a member of Sozialistische LinksPartei (ISA in Austria). Many want to drive a wedge between Marx and Engels for their own interpretations of Marxism and socialism. There is no either or, but only both together. Let us take a look at this in a brief foray into the wild life of Friedrich […]
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Dean O’Donnell is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). The accumulated rage of the Guatemalan masses reached boiling point on Saturday, November 21. A wave of protests erupted in response to a new government bill that, in the midst of a pandemic, proposed major cuts to healthcare and education. Tens of thousands […]
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Mike Forster is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). On November 28, 1990, 30 years ago, Margaret Thatcher tearfully tended her resignation as Tory Party leader and therefore by default, as prime minister of the UK, after 11 years in power. She was forced out by a Cabinet coup against her and […]
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Andros Payiatsos is a member of Xekinima (ISA in Greece). “It seems paradoxical, but it is quite accurate: the government and its police were able to break up and disband the rallies organized by the Left, but the Left felt triumphant at the end of the day.” 17 November is a day of historic importance […]
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Andy Ford is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). 2020 marks 70 years since the untimely death of George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) from tuberculosis in University College Hospital, London. His political and literary legacy has been fought over ever since. Early years Orwell was born in 1903 in Motihari, India, as […]
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Answer violence with Solidarity – Need for Urgent Action. More arrests in Moscow. On International Day against Violence Against Women, once again Moscow police have acted in a completely unjustified manner. In St Petersburg a picket was held successfully and peacefully. In Moscow the authorities refused permission for an action, fearing it would be as […]
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