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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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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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ISA Statement on The New Cold War and Ukraine War
ISA International Committee Statement
Introduction — “The Single Most Important Element of World Relations”
ISA has identified a New Cold War between US and Chinese imperialism, which has asserted itself, as “the single most important element ...
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Latin America: 50 year anniversary of the Chilean coup and the limits of reformism in the age of dis...
The 2020s have shown us that the specter of the coup has certainly not disappeared since the 1970s.
Danny Byrne & Marcus Kollbrunner
This September 11 marks, in Latin America and around the world, a half-centenary anniversary of a fundamental e...
China
ISA’s book on 1989 Beijing massacre banned in Hong Kong
New English edition of Seven Weeks That Shook the World with extra material published by ISA’s China, Hong Kong, Taiwan section
The following is the introduction to the new English edition of the book (176 pages, July 2023, €8.50) available from chi...
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When Liverpool took on Thatcher
40th anniversary of the election of Liverpool’s Militant-led Labour Council
Interview with ISA member Laurence Coates, who was a full-time organizer for Militant in Liverpool in the 1980s
It is 40 years since the legendary Militant-led ci...
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ISA 13th World Congress: Preparing for new twists and turns in the ‘age of disorder’
Report from International Socialist Alternative’s World Congress
Danny Byrne, ISA International Executive
(This article was first published on 15 February 2023)
Between 30 January and 5 February, over 100 delegates and visitors participated in Intern...
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2023 World Perspectives(1): Epoch of Multiple Crises — We Have a World to Win!
During the World Congress of ISA held from 30 January to 5 February delegates and visitors held intense discussions on ‘World Perspectives’. As a consequence, the document “Epoch of multiple crises — we have a world to win” was passed. We publish her...
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Revolutionary history: Lessons of the Spanish Revolution 1931–38
The Spanish Revolution of 1931–1939 is one of the greatest events in working-class history in the twentieth century. Heroic Spanish workers rose up against an attempted coup in 1936 by the army, commanded by the reactionary fascist General Francisco ...
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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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