History

March 11, 2026 Leon Pinsky, Sociaist Alternative (ISA in the US) A century ago, from December 18-31 of 1925, the 14th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union—the first congress following Vladimir Lenin’s death—endorsed the policy known ...

December 29, 2025. Zuhair Al-Anhar, Socialist Alternative US In December 1987, after 20 years of horrific occupation, the movement for Palestinian liberation was set ablaze. An escalating protest movement erupted into a national uprising when four P...

April 1, 2026 Per-Åke Westerlund, ISA International Political Committee Iran has been at the centre of global events continuously for more than a century. Imperialist powers dominated the entire period up to the revolution in 1979, treating Iran as ...

chinaworker.info commemorates 1925-27: This year we are commemorating 100 years since the Second Chinese Revolution 1925-27. This was one of the most remarkable and significant waves of mass struggle ever seen. In the year 1925 the working class of S...

Andre Ferrari, ISA International Political Committee (This article was originally published in May 2025, in issue #1 of International Marxism, international political journal of International Socialist Alternative) Forty years ago, a civili...

US-backed coup in 1965 unleashes one of 20th Century’s biggest mass killings Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info The military crackdown against the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) that began in October 1965 and continued throughout the following year, ...

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 ...

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...

“The capitalist CCP dictatorship can be fought in Hong Kong, but it can only be defeated in China” chinaworker.info reporters On 28 September, 2014, what became known as Hong Kong’s Umbrella Revolution began. The police launched a savage tear gas and...

Ultra-capitalist deal over Hong Kong's status exposes the hypocrisy of both sides This year marks 40 years since the signing of the Sino-British Joint Declaration by which the Chinese and British governments agreed to the handover of Hong Kong to Ch...