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Is the problem neoliberalism or capitalism? George Martin Fell Brown and Tony Gong, Socialist Alternative (ISA USA) The current economic crisis may have been triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, but its roots lie in a deeper crisis of capital...

Arming a New Generation with Revolutionary Method. Lynn Walsh On 20 August, 1940, Trotsky was struck a fatal blow with an ice-pick by Ramon Mercader, an agent sent to Mexico by Stalin’s secret police, the GPU, to murder the exiled revolutionary, ...

In the 1930s Trotsky and his family were finding it impossible to secure safe refuge. Deported from France, refused entry into Britain, they moved to Norway. This article describes how an alliance of Stalinists, fascists and 'democrats' ensured th...

Trotsky’s analysis and struggle against capitalism and Stalinism provides vital lessons for the class struggle today (article is a reprint from August 2010, with some minor changes) Per-Åke Westerlund, Socialist Justice Party (ISA Sweden) On Aug...

The role of police and how real change can be won Tom Crean, Socialist Alternative (ISA USA) The nature of policing in the United States is inseparable from the violent, racist history of capitalism in this country. From slave patrols; to Bull...

How was capitalism restored in China? This article was first published in 2015 in the Greek magazine Marxist Thought. It is now published in English for the first time. Vincent Kolo In March, China’s ornamental ‘parliament’ the National People’s C...

Friday 8th May marks the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe Paddy   Meehan Socialist party (ISA in Northern Ireland) In the midst of the Covid-19 lockdown, the establishment are appealing to the ‘Blitz spirit’ and the sen...

The Stalinists in Indochina learned nothing from the Chinese experience International Socialist Alternative Most histories of the struggle against French colonial rule in Vietnam reflect the Stalinist traditions of the Hanoi regime, and ignore or s...

USSR, with this “malignant bureaucracy” at the helm, as still a workers state, albeit a “degenerated workers state.” Peter Hadden (Socialist Party) (ISA in Ireland) This article is a chapter from the 1999 publication The Struggle for Socialism ...

January 15th marked the 101st anniversary of the murder of the outstanding revolutionary socialist leader, Rosa Luxemburg  Eleanor Crossey-Malone (ISA Ireland) This article, first published by Socialist Party Ireland, looks at her def...