This is a statement by ISA’ International Women’s Bureau. Fight the Right Wing Backlash with Socialist Feminism International Working Women’s Day (IWWD) 2023 sees the wave of women leading movements and struggle against oppression and capitalist exploitation continuing to develop, often explosively. The dire consequences of war, mass hunger, climate destruction, political crisis and social […]
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The Bank of Canada jacked up interest rates again to 4.5 percent. In less than a year the Bank has raised rates eight times from 0.25 percent, causing misery to millions with higher rent mortgages and debt charges. These actions make a recession, with higher unemployment, more likely. This article, written in late January, first […]
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Kshama Sawant has led many successful struggles of working people against big business in the US, including the first $15 minimum wage in a large North American city and a Tax on Amazon to fund building public housing. She has won three elections to Seattle City Council and defeated the big-business backed, racist right-wing recall […]
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This is a statement of ISA’s International Editorial Board. Workers of the World Unite Against Decaying Capitalism A revolutionary socialist alternative is needed. We call on all workers, women, youth and those who agree with us to join us in building International Socialist Alternative. International Editorial Board “The burdens of war will consume the best […]
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Chris Gray is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Right-Wing Tropes, Gaslighting, and High-Paid Spies Following the historic union victory at the JFK8 fulfillment center on Staten Island, Amazon Labor Union (ALU) is gearing up for the next election at LDJ5, the 1,500 worker sort center across the street. Following the historic union […]
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Eddie McCabe is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). Why We Call for Nationalization & Democratic Public Ownership A socialist economic alternative includes many essential features such as wage rises and reduced hours for workers, taxes on wealth and profits, expanded and free public services etc. But a core demand is for […]
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Written by an Amazon Worker. Workers at the JFK8 Amazon Fulfillment Center in Staten Island have dealt a stunning blow to the corporate giant by voting ‘Yes’ for the Amazon Labor Union (ALU), 2654 for and 2131 against. This decisive result proves once and for all that one of the richest and most powerful companies […]
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Tom Costello is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). The British ruling class would like to present today’s capitalist “democracy” as one that was gradual, “peaceful,” and a kind gift handed down from above. “Once the poor had no rights, and then society naturally progressed towards the great democracy we have today […]
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A couple of days ago I asked my old friend Vladan, who taught me how to drive big rigs, about his thoughts on the so-called “truckers’ freedom convoy.” Vladan, who has been trucking long-distance for the last 25 years, answered with resignation in his voice. “What can I say? I waited at the Ambassador Bridge […]
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Now that the convoy has been cleared from Ottawa’s streets, it is worth remembering when desperate workers tried to take their protest to the federal government in Ottawa in 1935. The “On to Ottawa Trek” saw unemployed men housed in military relief camps travel by rail from Vancouver, stopping at towns along the way gaining […]
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