September 5, 2025
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    Marxism and the national question: The continuing relevance of Lenin’s ideas today

    Lenin’s ideas united workers across nations to fight capitalism and imperialism Socialist Alternative (ISA in England, Wales, and Scotland) Among the many contributions to the ideas of socialism made by Vladimir Lenin was to clarify the approach of...

    China’s dictatorship, state and private capital

    The following is a speech given by ISA member Zhou Yi to a meeting of Chinese Marxists in May 2025 ISA and chinaworker.info describe China and the system led by the so-called Communist Party (CCP) regime as ‘authorit...

    The World Of Trump 2.0

    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 ...

    Intersectionality, privilege theory and identity politics: A Marxist view

    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...

    Understanding China’s authoritarian state capitalism

    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...

    Trans women are women

    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...

    The economic onslaught of the counterrevolution and the unions

    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...

    Book review: ‘Minority Rule’ by Ash Sarkar

    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...

    No common “national interest” — For an independent working-class road

    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...

    United States: 5 right-wing lies about immigration

    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...

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    Gaza: Imperialist genocide vs. workers’ solidarity

    Trump's dystopian Gaza 'plan' revealed as dock workers defend aid flotilla Jonas Brannberg, Socialistisk Alternative (ISA in Sweden) (This article was...

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