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...
The Beijing massacre of 1989 crushed the democracy movement and cemented the Chinese regime’s embrace of capitalism
Dikang, chinaworker.info
June 4 marks the 31st anniversary of the gruesome massacre in Beijing by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA)...
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by his revolutionary alias, Vladimir Lenin, was born in the city of Simbirsk, now known as Ulyanovsk, on Russia’s Volga river a century and a half ago
Rob Jones Sotsialisticheskaya Alternativa (ISA in Russia)
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How the German working class fended off a right-wing coup, almost seized power and was once again betrayed by the Social Democratic Party
Marcus Hesse SAV (ISA in Germany)
One often hears that a general strike is not possible in Germany, let alone ...
Working-class organisation to take power is the only path forward to end banditry and terrorism
Aj Dagga Tolar, Movement for a Socialist Alternative ...
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