Nicolas Croes is a member of Linkse Socialistiche Partij / Parti Socialiste de Lutte (ISA in Belgium). Last Saturday 12 December, for the third consecutive week, thousands of people marched in various French cities to denounce the Global Security Bill and the separatism bill. In the midst of the pandemic, the priorities of President Macron’s […]
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Rob Jones is a member of Sotsialisticheskaya Alternativa (ISA in Russia). The latest phase of the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, the Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan, appears to have been concluded. Fighting which started at the end of September ended with a “peace agreement” on November 10 leaving thousands of soldiers and civilians dead and the map of […]
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Dan Kavanaugh is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Why we should unite against the corporate, right-wing recall campaign Big business, corporate Democrats and the right wing are once again going after Seattle’s socialist councilmember, Kshama Sawant, this time with a right-wing recall campaign. After Amazon and big business failed to defeat her […]
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Mauro Espinola is a member of Alternativa Socialista (ISA in Mexico). The first of a series of articles that seeks to clarify and outline the nature of the Mexican Revolution from a class point of view. November 20 marked the 110th anniversary of the beginning of the Mexican Revolution of 1910, in which thousands of […]
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The Canadian economy is in a deep recession, but the stock market and housing prices are soaring. How is this possible? Millions of Canadians lost their jobs in the spring, and the drop in GDP was worse than the 2008/09 economic crisis. Yet somehow housing prices across the country are way up, completely contradicting common […]
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Geert Cool is a member of Linkse Socialistiche Partij / Parti Socialiste de Lutte (ISA in Belgium). The protest against the Hindu nationalist regime of Nahendra Modi of the BJP is growing to phenomenal proportions. A well-organised farmers’ protest keeps the capital Delhi in its grip. At the same time, on November 26, there was […]
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Josafat Arrieta is a member of Alternativa Socialista (ISA in Mexico). On October 25, Chile held the plebiscite that defined the future of the constitution inherited from the military dictatorship. The resounding result in favor of a new constitution was the most recent expression of the movement that began on October 18, 2019. The social […]
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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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