Statement on World Perspectives by ISA’s International Political Committee
The famous observation of Vladimir Lenin, that “there are decades when nothing happens and there are weeks when decades happen” could have been easily written with our epoch ...
Whenever working-class and oppressed people begin to engage in struggle against their conditions, as they have done on a massive scale in the last period, what accompanies this is a search for ideas. Fury at injustice leads people to seek to understa...
This is an edited version of a speech given by Peter Chan of chinaworker.info to the ISA's Virtual Marxist University in July 2020, which is now published for the first time. Marxists have continuously discussed and debated what kind of state the CC...
Far right political forces that spread transphobia have grown in many countries in recent years. This article by our American comrades explains what is behind this development. Pitting women against trans people is not a new tactic from the right win...
Leon Trotsky, 30 March 1933
(The following short article by Leon Trotsky was written after the victory of fascism in Germany in 1933. It has been translated by chinaworker.info into Chinese for the first time.)
Declaration of the delegates representi...
The book is a deep dive into the increasingly polarised public debates which centre around questions of identity. The issues it takes on are perhaps even more pressing now than they were at the time the book was drafted.
Claire Laker-Mansfield, Socia...
Labour movement must oppose militarism and imperialism
Andy Moxley, ISA International Political Committee
(This article was first published on 13 March 2025)
The surge of the right-wing internationally and the shift driven by the ruling class into an...
Cody Turner, Socialist Alternative (ISA in the United States)
(This article is by our sister organisation in the United States, Socialist Alternative, countering the racist migration policies of the Trump administration; it was first published on 15...
In many parts of the world, the clock appears to be turning back on the gains made by the women’s movement and workers’ struggles in the past. This is a symptom of a capitalist system which, in its state of crisis and decay, turns towards reactionary...
Leon Trotsky
NOTE: The following is a rough uncorrected transcript of a discussion held in April 1939, between Trotsky and an English Fourth Internationalist, who had raised a number of questions concerning the development of the Fourth Internationa...
