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Book review: In the Camps by Darren Byler
Per-Åke Westerlund, International Socialist Alternative
Three hundred camps with more than a million Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang are probably the most brutal expressions of the CCP dictatorship in China.
In Darren Byler’s new book, In the Camps: Chi...
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Not a workers’ and not a bourgeois state?
Trotsky's analysis of the USSR as a deformed workers' state represented an invaluable addition to Marxism's theoretical treasury. This article by Leon Trotsky from 25 November, 1937, has been translated into Chinese for the first time by supporters o...
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Revolutionary history: Anniversary of the Black Panther Party – Lessons for today
October 15th is the anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party in 1966. We reprint here an article written before the murder of George Floyd, but whose lessons remain even more valid today.
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Climate crisis: The truth about dirty energy
Nearly every component of our day to day lives, from flipping on the lights to flipping through our phone, is powered by dirty energy.
Rebecca Green, Socialist Alternative (ISA in the United States)
Nearly every component of our day to day lives, f...
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Ten Years Later – The Importance of Occupy Wall Street
Leon Pinsky, Socialist Alternative (ISA in the US)
September saw the 10th anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, the movement which opened a new chapter in the history of social struggle in the U.S. A decade later, we can appreciate the importance of Oc...
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The new Cold War: Getting hotter?
Shifting positions over Taiwan and its international status are raising tensions between the US and China, while a new global arms race is kicking off
Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info
Are we witnessing a temporary thaw in the US-China conflict? This ...
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Circulating an illegal paper
Leon Trotsky, April 18, 1933
Hitler’s fascist regime took power in Germany on 30 January 1933, and rapidly proceeded to crush all workers’ organisations, political parties, and any independent forums for the working class to organise. This was the m...
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9/11 terror — 20 years on: Imperialism’s bloody cycle continues
The world changed twenty years ago. It’s rare that a single event like the 9/11 terrorist attack in the USA can have that much impact. But of course it wasn’t just an act of terror which altered the course of history. Rather it was the response to it
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30 years ago — Defeat of anti-Gorbachev coup leads to collapse of USSR
August 19th 1991 — an 8-man junta announced that the head of the Soviet Union General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev had been taken ill, and an ‘Emergency Committee’ had taken over running the vast country. The defeat of the putsch opened the road to the collapse of the USSR.
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China and the Uighurs: On Xinjiang and the falling Uighur birth rate — Reply to pro-authoritarian ‘l...
In the second of our two-part article on Chinese imperialism, we wrote: “The huge network of concentration camps, disappearances, torture, rape and more in Xinjiang, directed against the Uighur and mostly Muslim population, are not made up, but are the harsh reality.” Pro-authoritarian so-called lefts have attacked our article.
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Hong Kong: Counter-revolution gets a new face
John Lee “elected” Chief Executive to continue in Carrie Lam’s bloody footsteps
The so-called election of Hong Kong’s new Chief Executive ended witho...
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