(This article was originally published at the end of November 2024, in issue 10 of Socialist World, ISA’s international political journal. Contact Socialist Alternative to order a copy of the journal) Over a century ago, V.I. Lenin summarized the experience of capitalist and imperialist rule for the workers and oppressed of the world quite succinctly: […]
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Socialist Alternative #30 This is a bumper 20-page issue! Contents include: Subscribe to Socialist Alternative! You can now subscribe to Socialist Alternative’s magazine for a modest $2 a month or $24 a year and receive each printed issue delivered to your mailbox. With an additional donation, you can become a sustainer of our magazine and […]
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The dramatic actions of warfare this weekend — with over one thousand dead so far — in Israel and the Gaza Strip has shaken the world. This could be the beginning of further instability and expanded war. Here is a first translated statement from the Secretariat of Socialist Struggle (ISA in Israel-Palestine) published originally in […]
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Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, arms spending around the world has soared. Germany and Japan have announced a doubling of spending on weapons of death. At the same time governments say there is not enough money to increase wages in line with inflation or to invest in the public health systems at risk of collapse. […]
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On 4 February the US air force shot down a Chinese high-altitude balloon that had passed over its territory and the “balloon crisis” became a fact. The Chinese government admitted the balloon belonged to it, saying it was a civilian weather balloon that had been blown off course and mistakenly entered US airspace. The Biden […]
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Report of the discussion on World Perspectives at ISA’s 2023 World Congress Climate disasters, raging inflation and the threat of a world recession. A brutal war in Ukraine and rising global tensions. Three years of COVID with health systems teetering on the breaking points. Political polarization and unstable governments. The ruling class looks to the […]
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Adam N. Lee is a contributor to chinaworker.info. Book review: Danger Zone — The Coming Conflict with China by Hal Brands and Michael Beckley offers a very scary road map for US victory in the new imperialist Cold War. Brands and Beckley, specialists in geopolitical history, present their book Danger Zone as “a contrarian take” […]
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Danny Byrne is a member of ISA’s International Executive. Report from International Socialist Alternative’s World Congress — further reports to follow Between January 30 and February 5, over 100 delegates and visitors participated in International Socialist Alternative’s 13th World Congress. Participants hailed from over 30 countries, across all continents. Most delegates participated in person, gathering […]
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Per Olsson is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden). One person dying from hunger every 48 seconds in East Africa due to the lethal combination of wars, capitalism and global warming After the 2011 famine in Somalia, the world’s power elite said, “never again”, but now the disaster is happening all over again, […]
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James McCabe is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). This year marks 175 years since ‘Black 47’, the worst year of the devastating ‘Great Famine’ in Ireland. Every place is unique in its own way, but Ireland is one of the only parts of the world that has fewer people today than […]
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