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Sunflower movement transformed Taiwan’s political map
Important lessons from the mass struggle against the Ma government of March-April 2014
Vincent Kolo
Ten years ago, a mass movement erupted in Taiwan which shook the whole capitalist establishment and resulted in a permanent irreversible political s...
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Ukraine War: Two years into an epoch-defining conflict
End the imperialist meat-grinder! For international working class struggle against war and imperialism
Danny Byrne, ISA International Executive
(This article was first published on 26 February 2024)
The fall of the town of Avdiivka to Russian troo...
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United States: Trump is sweeping the Republican primary. What would a second term mean for working p...
Varun Belur, Socialist Alternative (ISA in the United States)
(This article was first published on 1 February 2024)
The Republican presidential primaries are underway, but it isn’t much of a contest. After decisively winning the Iowa caucuses and N...
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United States: Undefeated – Lessons from 10 years of a socialist in office
Long before Bernie Sanders and AOC were household names, Kshama Sawant was elected as the first open socialist in Seattle in nearly a century. Kshama has remained the lone socialist on the City Council for the past ten years — with which she and Seat...
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Lenin: His Legacy 100 Years After His Death
The Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, died on 21 January 1924 — 100 years ago. The party he led, known as the Bolsheviks and later the Communist Party, took power in the October Revolution of 1917, the first...
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Trotsky’s record on ‘entry’ into the Kuomintang
10 December 1930
As part of our series of short archive posts we reproduce this letter by Leon Trotsky to Max Shachtman clarifying his stance over the so-called tactic whereby China’s unconsolidated fledgling Communist Party (CCP) was dissolved into...
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Leon Trotsky: Some Ideas on the Period and the Tasks of the Left Opposition
July 28, 1931
The revolutionary tide is now indisputable. The Communist parties are growing stronger in certain countries. The elementary flow of forces turns aside the questions of strategy and puts them in second or third place. The workers mo...
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Left politics: Sinn Féin, PBP and the question of a left government in Ireland
A significant change in the political landscape in Ireland, coupled with Sinn Féin’s rise to become the largest party in the North, will be a defining feature of Irish politics in the next few years. The misguided tactical approach that flows fro...
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How socialism can save the planet
Greyson Van Arsdale, Socialist Alternative (ISA in the United States)
(This article was first published on 31 August 2023)
In 2020, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella sat down on CNBC to urge the world’s wealthiest to act on climate change. Announcing tha...
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Capitalism is preparing for more war – We need a socialist alternative
Chris Gray, Socialist Alternative (ISA in the United States)
(This article was first published on 10 July 2023)
As inter-imperialist tensions continue to heighten, capitalist governments around the world plan to spend over $6 trillion on their mili...
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Sunflower movement transformed Taiwan’s political map
Important lessons from the mass struggle against the Ma government of March-April 2014
Vincent Kolo
Ten years ago, a mass movement erupted in Taiwan...
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