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 ...
A century after the October revolution, the approach of the Bolsheviks to resolving the national question remains a shining example of what could be achieved in resolving national conflicts if genuine socialist governments were to come to power acros...
Who are the real parasites?
Claus Ludwig, Socialist Alternative
The Korean film Parasite caused a sensation at the 2020 Oscars ceremony taking 4 awards including the first non-English language film ever to win "best film" . The film contrasts s...
Socialists
fight for all, even limited democratic advances, but explain the need to
overthrow capitalism
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
The following is a reprint from September 2010 of our reply to criticisms on social media from a sectar...
Hazel Grinberg, Socialist Alternative (ISA in the United States)
(This article was first published on 5 November 2025)
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