Manus Lenihan is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). The Jarkarta Method presents a bold counter-history of the Cold War, showing how this colossal violence played an essential role in shaping the world we live in today. The beautiful Indonesian island of Bali attracts visitors from all over the world. But most […]
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Update, November 25: Twelve days ago Kenney finally recognized the threat of COVID, and took some limited steps. However, it was too little and today he was forced to take more thorough actions. Even still his actions are too little and too late. Dr. Joe Vipond, a Calgary emergency room physician, stated “Now that our […]
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Emma Quinn is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). Socialist Feminism Now More Than Ever Whenever there is a crisis, be it war, climate catastrophe or a pandemic, it is women, people of colour, indigenous populations; the most oppressed and exploited sections of the poor and working class who are worst affected. […]
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Katia Hancke is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). Friedrich Engels was born 200 years ago, yet as a thinker was profoundly radical and strikingly modern. While his lifelong collaboration with Karl Marx resulted in many co-authored works, as well as extensive correspondence between the two in which they developed their ideas […]
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Per-Åke Westerlund is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden). The war that started last week in the region of Tigray, Ethiopia, between the national army and Tigray armed forces, is putting millions at risk of famine and displacement. Within a few days, dozens of soldiers have been killed and hundreds are wounded, although […]
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Julien Daigneault is a member of Alternative Socialiste (ISA in Quebec). Recently, right populists and nationalists came together to defend the leadership of Québec Solidaire (Québec’s left leaning provincial party). This is uncharacteristic of them considering the usual ease with which they put down the “radical” left party. However, when the legitimacy of hierarchical structures […]
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Tom Crean is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. What should a new party of the left based on the interests of working people look like? Working people in the U.S. are facing a crisis of massive proportions. Decades of neoliberal attacks on unions and the gains of working people have created the […]
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Drop the charges against Chai Xiaoming On 14 August, left activist Chai Xiaoming was tried secretly by the Intermediate Court in the eastern city of Nanjing on the charge of “inciting subversion of state power”. The verdict and sentence of the court have not been made public but the Nanjing Public Prosecutor’s Office submitted a […]
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The celebrations have begun. Trump has clearly lost, and he will be out of the White House early next year. A massive sigh of relief is being exhaled by tens of millions of people across the country and hundreds of millions across the world. Yet we should recognize that the pandemic, climate change, economic crisis, […]
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On October 2 we published an article on the waves of killings and the protests in Colombia. Socialist Alternative also wrote a letter to the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and we have only received an automatic reply (the letter is at the end of the October 2 article). Since then there have […]
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