Myanmar: ‘Ethnic cleansing’ of Rohingya causes worldwide outrage

Clare Doyle is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. What was a slow-burning conflict between the government of Myanmar (Burma) and the Rohingya people of Rakhine, has escalated in the last three weeks into a major humanitarian crisis. More than 400,000 people fled the country towards neighbouring Bangladesh. Tens of thousands have […]

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North Korea: Nuclear stand-off – dangerous escalation of Washington and Pyongyang conflict

Niall Mulholland is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. The North Korean bomb test on 3 September, the most powerful yet, and the bellicose reaction of the US, underlines the volatile and dangerous situation in the peninsula and entire region. The huge blast in the north of the country was felt in […]

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Socialist Alternative Magazine #6

150 Years Capitalism, Colonialism, Corruption, and Resistance BC Liberals rule for the Rich Food Workers Win in Toronto Trudeau Shows Real Colours Over 150 Years of Indigenous Colonization Immigration: Exploitation and Exclusion Workers Built Canada Nova Scotia Teachers’ Strike NAFTA: “Free Trade” Without Freedom … and more from Canada and the World   If you […]

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US: Why did Washington order air strikes on Syria?

Tom Crean is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. No support for Trump or Assad – For workers’ unity. Working people in the U.S. and around the world were understandably horrified by the images of children dying from Sarin gas in Idlib, Syria. It is only the latest barbaric act in a civil […]

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Orlando: Stand together against bigotry, war and terrorism

Tom Crean is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Orlando – massive wave of solidarity with LGBTQ community Working people have been horrified and deeply shocked by the mass killing of 49 people at a Latino gay nightclub on Saturday night in Orlando, Florida. Vigils, some attended by thousands, have been held around […]

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Portrait of Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali and the Black Struggles of the 1960s

Originally published in February 2003 in Socialism Today. The great Muhammad Ali unfortunately passed away on June 3, 2016.  He was admired not only as a world champion boxer, but as a fearless fighter against racism.  His willingness to risk his career, prestige, and wealth to take a stand against racism and the Vietnam War […]

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Civilians eacuating a burning building during the Siege of Leningrad

Leningrad: the epic siege of 1941-44

Clare Doyle is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. Reprinted from the February 2016 issue of Socialism Today At the beginning of January, the BBC carried a documentary film about the blockade of Leningrad during the second world war – possibly the most tragic siege in history. The programme used eyewitness accounts […]

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Conservative’s Hypocrisy over Veterans

The Conservative Party has been ramping up Canada’s role as a military and imperialist power. Alongside this the federal government has been ramping up spending on publicity programs claiming to honour veterans. Funding for the Canada Remembers program, whose purpose it is to encourage national pride in Canada’s military history, was increased by 21% in […]

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World: Middle East, Ukraine wars…upturn in European class struggle

Kevin Parslow is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). Committee for a Workers’ International meeting discusses a volatile period in global and class relations The recent meeting of the International Executive Committee (IEC) of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) came at the end of a turbulent year in […]

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US: CIA Torture Report Exposes Brutality of U.S. Foreign Policy

Joshua Kortiz is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. The shock from the official Senate Intelligence Committee report revealing the torture by the CIA of more than 100 people is reverberating across the country and around the world. The report details sickening torture practices such as waterboarding, rectal feeding, sleep deprivation of up […]

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